[London: Cambridge University Press],1918. 4to (6 3/4 x 10). 4, (1) pages. Green wraps with title & wreath vignette on upper cover. Loose in wraps, upper corners creased, a good copy. Designed by Bruce Rogers. "A small edition in 4to." 9-line decorative initial (from The Centaur). Warde132. Morison, Four Centuries..... More
Boston: Thomas G. Boss, 2008. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4. 54 pages plus 36 color plates. Quarter red cloth & boards gilt. Fine. A checklist of 102 books BR designed at Riverside includes publication date & publication price, type face, edition size. Much of the new information here comes from..... More
NY: The Grolier Club, 1933. 8 1/4 x 12 1/4. Half-title, frontis by Emery Walker, vii, (2), 105, (1) pages. Title within white-on-red strapwork border. Red ornaments & strapwork initials. Illustrated throughout with diagrams of Roman letters, with tissue guards. The letters are so heavily inked that there iis some..... More
NY: Duschnes, 1949. A one-page announcement, with order form, for BR's "World Bible." A typed letter describes the special binding Duschnes could provide and a photograph of the binding. Good condition. Hailed as an"American folio Bible of noble proportions," BR's Bible was issued in red buckram gilt. More
San Francisco: Mackenzie & Harris, 1948. 5 1/2 x 12 1/2. Single sheet printed on both sides. The price list is on one side, with Bruce Rogers Borders on the other. Very good. Copies at Cambridge & Berkeley. More
(Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1906). 11 1/2 x 17 1/2. xxxiv double-column pages. Illustrated with seven "stained glass windows" richly colored by hand. Quarter vellum & boards decorated with a fleur-de-lis pattern, vellum tips. Minor faults to binding: small bump to spine base, light wear bottom edges, small white spot to..... More
(Lanston Monotype, 1924). 8 3/4 x 12 1/4. (14) pages. Original wraps with an all-over design by BR. A fine copy in the original (but very shabby) plain envelope. Specially signed by Rogers beneath the title page border. One of 223 copies printed for Bruce Rogers, on handmade paper. A...... More
Boston: HM, 1905. 5 7/8 x 9. 32 pages. Maroon cloth, gray boards, paper spine label. Extra label tipped in at rear. Very slight wear from rubbing in the slipcase, else a fine copy. The slipcase is missing an inch from the top panel. No. 23 of 375 copies, printed..... More
New Rochelle: Peter Pauper Press, 1933. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. 29 leaves printed entirely in red. A 4-page introduction by BR precedes Tory's letters. Bound by Peter Geraty at his Praxis Bindery in 1988. Red goatskin with green morocco panel gold tooled with the Roman Capitals GT (for Tory)..... More
(Bowling Green Press, 1928). 6 x 9. 16 leaves printed rectos only. Dark gray boards, silver spine label, dark grey dustwrapper (chipped). Very good, unopened copy SIGNED by the author on the copyright page. Decorative title page and ornaments printed in silver; each page ruled in silver, on greyish paper..... More
