Rogers bruce typography (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 53 Pp. #349Of 500 Copies. Vellum Spine Over Orange And Green Paper Boards, Paper Spine Label. Slight Rubbing And Browning To Spine, Colorful Bookplate On Front Pastedown.

First Edition. Illustrations Fine copy.

Folio. xx, 181, [3] pp. Title in red & black, numerous facsimile leaves of type fonts, illustrations, tipped-in facsimiles, photo illustrations, some leaves printed in red & black, others blue & black, some rubricated & decorated initials. Brick-red cloth, gilt design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, still a NF bright copy. First edition of this splendidly printed homage to the famed American type designer, lettering artist, and graphic designer. Cooper (1879-1940) headed the firm of Bertsch & Cooper who developed the ad campaigns for such companies as Packard Motor Car Company and Anheuser-Busch Breweries at the beginning of the 20th century. This work includes unfinished autobiographical notes by Cooper, Notes on Oz by W.A. Dwiggins famed type designer, as well as numerous examples of his Cooper Series Typefaces.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition. 14 pp. Original green paper covered boards w/ gilt title on front cover. Binding very bright and clean. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. One of 500 copies. TYPOGRAPHY BY BRUCE ROGERS WHO SIGNS. Comes in original glassine DJ which is lightly chipped at the edges. Contents very nice. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original pictorial paper boards, newly rebacked with matching paper. Illustrations throughout, featuring the work of 30 graphic designers, ranging from decorative initials and ornaments to reproductions of posters and magazine covers, many of them full-page (one double-page) mostly in color. Printed on specimens of 30 different types of paper made by Dill & Collins, seven of the leaves with multiple paper. Owner's signature of Jeanette E. Samuelson of the N.Y Herald Tribune, dated 1933, on front fly leaf, with her gift inscription. Rear paste-down with the bookplate/shelf label of Will Ransom. Corners and portions of edges of the paper boards somewhat worn, two-inch tape repair to rear in one leaf (crossing a very small portion of a border, without loss), first few leaves a bit spotted around margins, many leaves slightly darkened, a few additional trivial spots, otherwise an excellent copy, generally quite clean. Rare.…