BR marks & remarks : the marks by Bruce Rogers ; the remarks by his friends: PB 324-2003

Current Location: In storage

Titles

BR marks & remarks : the marks by Bruce Rogers ; the remarks by his friends

Maker(s)

Editor: Bennett, Paul A.
Illustrator: Rogers, Bruce
Publisher: Typophiles
Designer: Blumenthal, Joseph
Printer: Spiral Press
Printer: Meriden Gravure Company
Binder (person): J. F. Tapley Company

Description

Series: Typophile chap books ; 15.

Contents: B.R.'s printer's devices / H.W. Kent -- His early work / J.M. Bowles -- At the Riverside Press / Frederic Warde -- At the Dyke Mill / Carl Purington Rollins -- With Rudge at Mt. Vernon / James Hendrickson -- At Harvard University Press / David T. Pottinger -- In England / H.W. Kent -- His secret passion / Christopher Morley.

149, [1] p. : ill., facsims., port. ; 19 cm.

Place(s) associated

New York
Meriden

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1946

Note

"Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. Composed in Emerson type by Westcott & Thomspn, Inc., Philadephia. Printed at The Spiral Press, New York. Collotype reproductions by Meriden Gravure Company ... Binding by J. F. Tapley Company, New York. This edition comprises 400 copies for the Typophile contributors and subscribers, 55 copies for the member of the Carteret Book Club ... and 350 copies for general sale"--Colophon. Museum has copy no. 498. Signed by Joseph Blummental: "For John Dreyfus in Cambridge June 1951. Bound in red cloth, stamped in gold and black on spine.