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Hard cover, 12mo, in brown linen-like cloth decorated with gold blocked vignette to front board of a satyr figure wielding a sythe, with the initials BR vertically to the spine. Book design by Ward Ritchie. Printed by Richard Hoffmann. Limited edition of 650 copies . **CONDITION: Near Fine, (very light wear at head and foot of joints,) in the original Very Good plain paper d/j. **The Connecticut-born typographer and book designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957) was considered one of the foremost in his field, working for many years at Boston's Houghton Mifflin Company and the Riverside Press, before going on to work independently here, and in England. This volume has excerpts from addresses discussing his legacy given at a conference on Rogers at Purdue University in 1970, and includes interesting reminiscences about the typographer and other printing contemporaries. On the Book Club of California, Glaister says: " est. in 1912, Standards of scholarship and book production are are among the highest in the Americas."( p. 62). Book Club of California No. 166 on applied label verso title page. Oscar Lewis (1987) p. 53.
Ref: FINE 9334
$45.00