[Rarebooks] FS: SCARCE, beautifully designed exhibition catalog of the work of Bruce Rogers

[John Howell]

Just cataloged and offered today:

[ROGERS] JOHNSON, Herbert H., compiler.  

A Collector’s Choice: An Exhibition of Books Designed and Printed at the Riverside Press by Bruce Rogers.  

Aurora, New York: The Wells College Press, 2002.  

4to.  12 3/8 inches.  (48) pp.  Half-title, black-and-white photographic print portrait of Bruce Rogers tipped-in as a frontispiece, printer’s device in red on the title-page, decorative initial in red, lists 64 items with bibliographic descriptions and fulsome notes; text clean, unmarked.  Quarter tan cloth, blue paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight.  Handsome compliments bookplate on the front paste-down from the American Printing History Association.  SCARCE.  Fine.  

$ 150

LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies, designed by Michael and Winifred Bixler, Herbert Johnson, Annie Wooster, Nancy Gil, Sarah Roberts, and printed by Terrence Chouinard, bound at the Campbell Logan Bindery.  A tribute to master designed Bruce Rogers, highlights a selection of 64 items designed by Rogers and exhibited from December 2002 to March 2003, in a beautifully produced catalog. 


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