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Synopsis
Probably no book designer of the twentieth century has had more written about him, his work, or his life than Bruce Rogers. He was, as his primary biographer Joseph Blumenthal observed, the ultimate "artificer of the book." His career as a working designer spanned six decades, but arguably his finest (and certainly his happiest) years were spent at Cambridge's Riverside Press where he took over from D. B. Updike in 1896 and where he remained until 1912, overseeing his own department and designing at least sixty titles for Houghton Mifflin's list of Riverside Press Editions.
This small and elegantly produced volume contains an essay by Jerry Kelly outlining Rogers’s tenure at Riverside, a checklist of all the work he executed there (for Houghton Mifflin as well as others), and twenty pages of reproductions displaying the full range of BR titles, specimens of printing that―as he later wistfully remarked―“give me a definite satisfaction.”
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About the Author
Jerry Kelly is a calligrapher, book designer, and type designer; his work has been honored more than thirty times for the AIGA “Fifty Books of the Year.” In 2015 he was presented with the 28th Goudy Award from RIT.
Before starting his own design business in 1998, Kelly was Vice President of The Stinehour Press, preceded by a decade as designer at A. Colish. Kelly has taught typography at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design in New York. Kelly has served as Chairman of the American Printing History Association, President of The Typophiles, and has written several books on calligraphy and typography, most recently Type Revivals.
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The First Flowering: Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press, 1896-1912
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David R. Godine, Boston, 2009
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 54 pp. plus 36 pp. of full-page plates, 8vo, brown cloth, gilt title. Kelly's text is followed by a checklist of the Riverside Press editions. Fine copy. Seller Inventory # 5441
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FIRST FLOWERING: BRUCE ROGERS AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1896-1912, WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE RIVERSIDE PRESS EDITIONS.|THE
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5.75 x 8.75 inches. cloth-backed paper covered boards, stamped in gilt with the Riverside Press logo. 95 pages. Edition of 500 of which 323 copies with this imprint were produced. An A.L.s. from Jerry Kelly for Herbert H. Johnson is loosely inserted. A fine copy. As Daniel Berkley Updike's successor, from 1896-1912, Bruce Rogers worked at Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. This history of Bruce Rogers' work while at the Riverside Press was taken directly from the archives of his letters. Included in this book is how Rogers came to produce the series called Riverside Press Editions, as well as other special and limited editions. These books were made with handmade paper and the finest ink available. This work includes a checklist of 102 books and broadsides Rogers designed for Houghton Mifflin and other publishers, including publication date and publication price, typeface, and edition size. Thirty-six color plates are printed in the final part of the book. Beautifully designed by Kelly and printed in a digital version of the Brimmer typeface. cloth-backed paper covered boards, stamped in gilt with the Riverside Press logo. Seller Inventory # 133070
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The First Flowering. Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press 1896-1912, With a Checklist of the Riverside Press Editions
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