(Meriden, CT: Columbiad Club of Connecticut), n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies. Keepsake No. 87 of the Columbiad Club. Designed by John O.C. McCrillis. Includes illustration of a selection of type ornaments belonging to Bruce Rogers. READ MORE about PRINTERS' ORNAMENT
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 128544
New York: The Typophiles, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 31+(1) pages. Typophiles Monograph New Series #20. Known throughout the world of typography, Abe Lerner was a highly respected and talented typographer/book designer with links to the likes of the great Bruce Rogers. With a meticulous eye for detail and clean design, he was constantly working on new projects. With a career that landed him as the Director of Design and Production at Macmillan, President..... READ MORE about ABE LERNER 1908-2002
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 75326
New York: The Typophiles, 1998. 8vo. quarter blue cloth, patterned paper-covered boards. 101, (3) pages. Typophile Chap Book - New Series Number Two. Limited to 500 copies designed by Dan Carr and printed in the original metal Monotype Dante on vintage Mohawk Letterpress Text by J. Ferrari & D. Carr at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press. Well-illustrated with reproductions of John DePol's wood engravings. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press. READ MORE about JOHN DE POL AND THE TYPOPHILES, A MEMOIR AND RECORD OF FRIENDSHIPS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 61927
New York: The Typophiles, 1998. 8vo. quarter blue cloth with patterned paper-covered boards. 101, (3) pages. Typophile Chap Book - New Series Number Two. Limited to 500 copies designed by Dan Carr and printed in the original metal Monotype Dante on vintage Mohawk Letterpress Text by J. Ferrari & D. Carr at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press. Well-illustrated with reproductions of John DePol's wood-engravings. READ MORE about JOHN DE POL AND THE TYPOPHILES, A MEMOIR AND RECORD OF FRIENDSHIPS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 69520
No. IV.
London: Office of the Fleuron, 1925. small 4to. cloth. (viii), 163, (19) pages. No. IV. With an article on script types by Stanley Morison, Holbrook Jackson on Robert Bridges, George Moore and Bernard Shaw and their printing, Sidgwick on Percy Smith, Newdigate on Emery Walker, Hanna Kiel on modern German printing and Frederic Warde on Bruce Rogers. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about FLEURON, A JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 14441
Ann Arbor: William L. Clements Library, 1925. 4to. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 12 pages. Limited to 505 copies printed by Bruce Rogers at the Harvard University Press. Bookplate. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THE PASSPORTS PRINTED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AT HIS PASSY PRESS
Price: $37.50 Order nr. 24757
New York: n.p., 1966. 4to. stiff paper folder with 15 articles and broadsides about Goudy produced especially for this dinner by various pressmen loosely inserted. Includes contributions by Earl Emmons, Roland Baughman, Earnest Calkins, Frances Perkins and others. Some of the tributes have been hand-set. A fine collection of material about one of America's finest type designers. Covers faded. READ MORE about KEEPSAKE TRIBUTE TO FREDERIC W. GOUDY TO COMMEMORATE THE GOUDY CENTENN IAL DINNER, MARCH 8, 1966
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 22058
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1972. tall 8vo. cloth. xii, 291 pages. First edition. Essays on William Morris, Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Edward Johnston, T.M. Cleland, the Grabhorns, etc. Illustrated. Covers show fading. READ MORE about HERITAGE OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS. A SELECTION OF LECTURES DELIVERED ... UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR....
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 4213
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 120, (2) pages. Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on the humanistic calligraphy of the Renaissance, an even and infinitely various set of lowercase letters that had evolved from the Carolingian minuscules of the ninth century, Jenson's..... READ MORE about THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 129302
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2008. 8vo. cloth. 54 pages, plates. A history of Rogers and the Riverside Press. With a bibliography. Color plates. Acknowledgments. READ MORE about THE FIRST FLOWERING: BRUCE ROGERS AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1896-1912, WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 131329
N.P. Lake Forest University, (1954). 8vo. self paper wrappers. (iv), 31+(1) pages. Exhibition held in conjunction with the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches in 1954 at Lake Forest College in Illinois. 36 Christian books and manuscripts, one dating back to the 7th century. Designed by Bruce Rogers. READ MORE about ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF CHRISTIAN BOOKS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 115913
Accompanied by an Original Leaf Printed on Vellum at the Merrymount Press
N.P. Chiswick Book Shop, 1990. folio. cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. xviii, 75+(1) pages. Accompanied by an Original Leaf Printed on Vellum at the Merrymount Press. Limited to 285 copies printed at A. Colish, Inc. with typography by Jerry Kelly (Leaf Book - Chalmers 192). History of the production of this famous book designed and printed by D.B. Updike including information from the files of Bruce Rogers and Stanley Morison. Presentation from the author on..... READ MORE about THE MAKING OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER OF 1928
Price: $475.00 Order nr. 123194
New York, NY: The Typophiles, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 31+(1) pages. Typophiles Monograph New Series #20. Known throughout the world of typography, Abe Lerner was a highly respected and talented typographer/book designer with links to the likes of the great Bruce Rogers. With a meticulous eye for detail and clean design, he was constantly working on new projects. With a career that landed him as the Director of Design and Production at Macmillan..... READ MORE about ABE LERNER 1908-2002
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 94392
New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. 4to. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, clamshell case. xii, 190, (2) pages. Limited to 1100 numbered copies signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers (LEC 157). With an introduction by Christopher Morley and a postscript by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Printed by William E. Rudge's Sons. With Monthly Letter / prospectus loosely inserted. Some age darkening of case, else fine condition. READ MORE about THE ESSAYES OR COUNSELS CIVILL & MORALL
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 25076
N.P. The Limited Editions Club, n.d. (but 1988). folio. half morocco, with cloth-covered boards, slipcase. xiv, 104, (2) pages. Letterpress printed in an edition limited to 750 numbered copies signed by the illustrator Roberto Juarez and author of the introduction John Hersey. Richly illustrated with original etchings printed on hand-made Japanese tissue. Hand sewn and bound by Carol Joyce. Printed in Monotype Jansen designed by Bruce Rogers. Bound at the Garthegaat Bindery. A beautiful copy..... READ MORE about THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 45732
With an Introduction by A.A. Milne & Illustrations by Arthur Rackham
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. small 4to. cloth-backed paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, slipcase. 244, (2) pages. With an Introduction by A.A. Milne & Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Limited to 2020 numbered copies signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers (LEC S-7 Special Publications; Great & Good Books, A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Limited Editions Club, A17); this copy is not numbered and has "out of series" written in and the initials "g.m." (George..... READ MORE about THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 126036
New York: Columbia University, 1957. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 46 pages. With text by Bruce Rogers and Helen Macy at beginning. Reproduces Norman Rockwell portrait of Macy as frontispiece. READ MORE about ADDRESS BY SIR FRANCIS MEYNELL AT THE DEDICATION OF THE GEORGE MACY MEMORIAL COLLECTION OF BOOKS...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 9904
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1950. folio. cloth-backed boards. (36) pages. Limited to 3000 copies. With photographs of the meeting. Includes the printed talks given by George Macy, Carl van Doren, Edward A. Wilson and Bruce Rogers. Wear at tips. READ MORE about A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB'S DINNER TO CELEBRATE THE TWENTY-FIRST...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 9469
39 volumes
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939-1941. 4to. cloth-backed decorated boards, top edges gilt with COMMENTARIES in publisher's binding. variously paginated. 39 volumes. Limited to 1950 copies signed by Bruce Rogers. Overall design of this classic in book design and illustration was in the hands of Bruce Rogers. Each of the 37 volumes of Plays is illustrated by a different illustrator. The impressive list includes Eric Gill, Arthur Rackham, Gordon Ross, Edy Legrand, John Austen..... READ MORE about COMEDIES, HISTORIES & TRAGEDIES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 62303
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1906. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xii, 208 pages. First edition, limited to 530 numbered copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers. With bookplate of Grolier Club. Prospectus mounted to back pastedown. Cloth on spine split and partially detached. Front hinge starting. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 15174
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 7.125 x 9.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 216 pages. "This new study offers an insight into his work, the personality that drove his long career, and the fascinating, highly-charged social and political backgrounds against which that career was played out." - William Morris Society Magazine "Simon Loxley invites the reader to get to know Emery Walker through letters to and from family and friends, political comrades, artists, poets..... READ MORE about EMERY WALKER: ARTS, CRAFTS, AND A WORLD IN MOTION
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 133470
New York, NY: (The American Institute of Graphic Arts), 1939. 8vo. cloth. (viii), 27, (3) pages. Addresses delivered by Daniel Beverly Updike, Carl Purington Rollins, William Mills Ivins, Jr., Bruce Rogers, and Henry Watson Bent on the occasion of the exhibition's opening. Keepsake No. 58 of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Comments by L. B. Siegfried, Chair of the Keepsake Committee of AIGA, laid in. READ MORE about ADDRESSES GIVEN AT THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION OF METROPOLITAN MUSEUM PRINTING HELD IN THE...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 129306
3 volumes.
New Castle, Delaware and Los Angeles: Oak Knoll Press & Heritage Book Shop Inc., 1997. small 4to. cloth. 1350 pages. 3 volumes. Limited to 700 copies. Originally printed and limited to only 150 copies, this legendary three-volume work describes over 1,300 English literary rare books and manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English literature, now housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The original catalogue..... READ MORE about CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1475-1700
Price: $350.00 save 50% $175.00 Order nr. 46580
3 volumes.
New Castle, Delaware and Los Angeles: Oak Knoll Press & Heritage Book Shop Inc., 1997. small 4to. full leather in slipcase. 1350 pages. 3 volumes. One of 20 sets bound thus. Originally printed and limited to only 150 copies, this legendary three-volume work describes over 1,300 English literary rare books manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English literature. The original catalogue, extremely difficult and expensive to..... READ MORE about CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1475-1700
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 47049
3 volumes.
New Castle, Delaware and Los Angeles: Oak Knoll Press & Heritage Book Shop Inc., 1997. small 4to. cloth. 1350 pages. 3 volumes. Limited to 700 copies. Originally printed and limited to only 150 copies, this legendary three-volume work describes over 1,300 English literary rare books and manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English literature, now housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The original catalogue..... READ MORE about CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1475-1700
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 129308
