Barnacles from Many Bottoms Scraped and Gathered for BR by The Typophiles

The Typophiles

Verlag: The Typophiles, New York, 1935

Beschreibung

Not paginated (but just over 100 leaves), frontispiece portrait, 8vo (9 x 6 in.), black buckram with the gilt stylized "BR" initials (reminiscent of Bruce Rogers's Fra Luca di Pacioli) spanning across the cover panels, gilt spine title. A festschrift celebrating Bruce Rogers s return to the US after a stint in England (during which period he designed such monuments of twentieth-century fine printing as The Odyssey and the Oxford Lectern Bible). The volume is made up of 30 different signatures (several unopened) and inserts on Rogers and other typographic subjects, individually written and designed by many of his colleagues and fellow luminaries in the type design, private press and printing worlds during the second quarter of the 20th century. Printed on different papers, the signatures include a few tip-ins, including a bookplate designed by Rogers for William Reydel, a couple are signed (e.g., Frederic Goudy) and some are printed in different color inks. Other contributors include Rudolph Ruzicka, Paul A. Bennett, W. A. Dwiggins, John Fass/Village Press, Valenti Angelo, Pynson Printers, Mergenthaler Linotype, Frederic Melcher/Lakeside Press, Philip C. Duschnes, Edna Beilenson, Melbert Cary, Joseph Blumenthal, Paul Johnston, and Lanston Monotype. Richard Ellis s contribution to the volume made it too late to the binder and is thus not present. A wonderful salute to one of the monumental figures in twentieth-century book and type design. One of the most desirable and scarce publications relating to Rogers. The second publication of The Typophiles, this copy being no. 10 of only 100 copies produced. A fine copy with fresh endpapers. Rathé, Bibliography, item B. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4607

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Barnacles from Many Bottoms Scraped and ...

Verlag: The Typophiles, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1935

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine