BR to FWG.
by ROGERS, Bruce. GOUDY, Frederic W
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1940. A reprint of a letter originally written by Bruce Rogers to Frederic Goudy in 1919, presented here with an introduction by Goudy. One of 350 copies. The introduction set in Goudy’s University of California Old Style type and the letter set in Rogers’s Centaur type. Designed by Samuel T Farquhar and A.R. Tommasini and printed for Rogers, Goudy and their friends. 12mo., original quarter vellum over marbled paper boards, gilt lettering to vellum. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed.|||
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9037
- Title
- BR to FWG.
- Author
- ROGERS, Bruce. GOUDY, Frederic W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley and Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Bruce Rogers;Frederic Goudy;Typography Book,Printing & Typography
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Glossary
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...