Fine book pages : a portfolio of specimen pages from the distinguished books / designed by Bruce Rogers

Bib ID:
2001756
Format:
Book
Description:
  • [N.Y.] : William Edwin Rudge, [1928?]
  • 1 portfolio (11 samples) ; 24 cm.
Full contents:
  • The Christmas dinner
  • Skallagrim
  • The relation of art to nature
  • Peronnik the fool
  • The hearts journey
  • The Psalms of David in metre
  • The Monmouth tragedy
  • The silver cat and other poems.
Notes:
  • Includes samples of : Montaigne's essay on friendship, Houghton Mifflin. The new Oxford Bible, Oxford University Press. The Christmas dinner : from "The sketch book" by Washington Irving, William Edwin Rudge. The Psalms of David, Washburn & Thomas. The heart's journey by Siegfried Sasson, Crosby Gaige & William Heinemann. Peronnik the fool by G. Moore, (no printer). Monmouth : a tragedy by Robert Louis Stevenson, William Edwin Rudge. The relation of art in nature by John W. Beatty, William Edwin Rudge. Skallagrim (Grim the Bald) by Richard West Saunders, (no printer). The silver cat and other poems by Humbert Wolfe, (no printer). Selected examples showing work of Bruce Rogers, the Typophiles. From the collection of the writings of the poet John Gay, Harvard College Library.
  • Ed. limited to 975 copies.
  • Base copy contains writings of John Gay and copy A contains: Selected examples showing work of Bruce Rogers.
  • Copy A contains the book-plate of Ernest Lewis Gay.
  • Base copy is no. 970 of an edition of 975 ; copy A is no. 964.
  • J15731/1381 ; Copy A J15731/1382.
Subject:
Printing -- Specimens
Other authors/contributors:
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957
Copyright:

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