Of the Just Shaping of Letters, from the Applied Geometry of Albrecht Durer, Book III.
NY: Grolier Club, 1917. Quarto. (vi), 46pp. One of 215 copies printed by Emery Walker and Wilfred Merton at the Mall Press, Hammersmith. Frederic Goudy's copy, with a Frederic and Bertha Goudy Collection bookplate. This work is beautifully printed after a design by Bruce Rogers, with many pages of typographic illustrations, as well as pictorial title and initials. This is the first book Rogers printed on English soil, and is, justifiably, a BR30 title. As Joseph Blumenthal recounts in Bruce Rogers: A Life in Letters, after experiencing "a growing sense of despondency and discouragement," in his later years at Riverside, Rogers accepted Emery Walker's invitation to come to England to print with him. This book, the first product of that collaboration, which also introduced Rogers to Wilfred Merton, is the only work completed by the Mall Press. Fifteen years later, Rogers, Walker, and Merton would combine their acumen in the design and printing of T.E. Lawrence's translation of The Odyssey. Bound in vellum-backed marbled paper over boards, title stamped in gilt to spine, with original plain paper dust jacket. Very good; jacket worn, edgewear to boards, with minor bumps to corners and small nick to head of spine, front hinge a bit tender. Library markings to rear paste-down. Otherwise a superb association copy of one of Rogers's rarer works. Item #32126
(The Work of Bruce Rogers 236; also see Blumenthal, pp. 38-63).
Price: $5,500.00