publisher's marbled paper over boards; paper spine label
1933
by Rogers Bruce
8vo. (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches). We liberally quote Jos. Blumenthal's Bruce Rogers: A Life in Letters 1870-1957: "The book, which consisted of the introduction and twenty-four large diagrammatic roman letters, each on a separate page, was very well printed by Bor.s young friend Peter Beilenson at his Walpole Printing Office...the Bruce Rogers printer's mark of Father Time and the thistle appeared on the colophon page, indicating that he closely supervised the making of this slender book, which was done with forthright simplicity and charm."In addition to being a poor man's Champ Fleury (or at least the Grolier Club version, designed by Rogers, and now a highly collectableand expensiveexample of his work), this delightful book, printed in the very depth of the depression, is filled with good humor, including Rogers' "graphic pun" perpetrated on the colophon page in which, he recreates Geofroy Tory's cube, on which there are superimposed roman capitals; on B.R.s cube he chose the then appropriate letters IOU. ...done with forthright simplicity and charm.
(Inventory #: 285.1933)