[Rarebooks] FS: Geofroy Tory, 1/370 designed by Bruce Rogers with custom Cole binding
charles agvent
agvent at erols.com
Mon Jun 7 08:17:55 EDT 2004
BERNARD, Auguste Joseph [Bruce ROGERS]. GEOFROY TORY
PAINTER AND ENGRAVER: FIRST ROYAL PRINTER:... AN ACCOUNT OF
HIS LIFE AND WORKS. (Boston and New York): The Riverside
Press 1909. First Edition. Quarto (7-5/8" x 11-1/4") bound
by American binder Averill Cole in full green levant morocco
with blind-tooled border and a large center panel on the
front cover with onlays of brown and green morocco brought
out by a background of brilliantly dotted gold; wide
doublures with a pattern of small circle onlays matching
those on the cover and endleaves of drab watered silk, gilt
top, uncut. xxii, 332, (8) pages. Copy #20 of 370 designed
by Bruce Rogers with illustrations taken from original Tory
books and retouched or redrawn by Rogers. Translated by
George B. Ives. While not a copy or even an adaptation of
Tory's work, Cole's binding design shares similar
characteristics and features Tory's printer's mark, the Pot
Casse, on the central onlay on the front cover. A similar
binding by Cole on the same title was featured in an article
by Robert Seaver, "Some Interesting Bookbindings" that
appeared in THE AMERICAN PRINTER circa 1910. Inscribed in
pencil by Walter L. Harden in 1912 to noted collector
William F. Gable, whose contemporary bookplate is on the
verso of the front endpaper. A later bookplate of a
descendant is on the verso of the first blank. Prospectus
with order form laid in. A fine example of a beautifully
printed book in a lovely binding by Cole, who studied under
Louis Jacob in Brussels and who was in charge of the hand
bindery at Riverside from 1908 to 1920. Cole was awarded a
gold medal for her bindings at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
in San Francisco in 1915. Sumptuous copy in a fleece-lined
slipcase with fine provenance. $6500
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