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Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1902-4. Three Volumes. Woodcut portraits, ornamental borders and initials. One of 265 sets, this no 102. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Riverside Press. Translated from the French by John Florio. Edited and with notes by George B. Ives. Extra spine labels tipped-in to rear of volumes 2 and 3 only. Folio, a largely unopened set in the original linen backed pale green marbled paper covered boards, printed title labels to spines, volumes 1 and 3 lacking the plain dust jacket. Each volume housed in publisher’s green cloth boxes. All volumes very bright and fresh with a little darkening to the linen of the third volume, original rather soiled but sturdy boxes.||Rogers’s ‘Montaigne’ typeface was inspired by Nicholas Jenson’s 15th century alphabets. |Warde 33 The first appearance of Bruce Rogers’s first typeface ‘Montaigne’
ESSAYS OF MICHAEL LORD OF MONTAIGNE WRITTEN BY HIM IN FRENCH AND DONE INTO ENGLISH BY JOHN FLORIO by (ROGERS, BRUCE). MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE - 1902-04
by (ROGERS, BRUCE). MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE
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ESSAYS OF MICHAEL LORD OF MONTAIGNE WRITTEN BY HIM IN FRENCH AND DONE INTO ENGLISH BY JOHN FLORIO
by (ROGERS, BRUCE). MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE
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Boston and New York: [Printed at the Riverside Press for] Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1902-04. No. 61 OF 265 COPIES. Three volumes..
Publisher's green handmade marbled papered boards backed with light green canvas, flat spines with printed white paper label, ENTIRELY UNOPENED. Volume I and II in original pale green paper dust jackets (the jacket for the third volume absent), each volume in its original (rather soiled and slightly worn) folding cloth box, with paper spine labels. Frontispiece portrait in each volume, 23 full-page facsimiles, large and beautiful criblé initials throughout, criblé headpieces. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Extra paper title label tipped into the back of each volume. ◆A faint, pencil-thin vertical stain on dust wrapper of one volume (with transfer onto front free endpaper), jackets a little creased, tiny ink spot (from printing process) to edge of three leaves, otherwise (and apart from the boxes and the one missing jacket) a very fine copy, nearly unchanged from the day it left the press.
Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed on the finest quality paper available, this strictly limited large format luxury edition is famous as perhaps the most memorable single printing performance by the Riverside Press. It marks the debut of the first typeface Rogers designed, appropriately named "Montaigne," which, like his famed Centaur type, is based on the humanist typeface of Venetian printer Nicolas Jenson. Rogers (1870-1957) showed an early talent for book design: according to ANB, the adolescent Rogers "created a hand-lettered edition of William Cullen Bryant's 'Forest Hymn,' complete with imitation etchings bearing plate marks made by a kitchen iron." Rogers left his native Indiana to work for Boston publisher L. Prang and Company in 1895. He supplemented his income with freelance book design work, which came to attention of George H. Mifflin of Houghton, Mifflin & Company. As a result, Rogers was hired to work for the Riverside Press in 1896, and in 1900 he was put in charge of the newly created "Department of Special Editions," where he was given free rein to experiment with typography, paper, and binding. The department produced 60 "Riverside Editions" during Rogers' tenure. After leaving the Riverside Press in 1911, Rogers did freelance work before moving to England to collaborate with Emory Walker. He had a transatlantic career thereafter, and is best remembered today for his stately Oxford Lectern Bible, published in 1935..
Publisher's green handmade marbled papered boards backed with light green canvas, flat spines with printed white paper label, ENTIRELY UNOPENED. Volume I and II in original pale green paper dust jackets (the jacket for the third volume absent), each volume in its original (rather soiled and slightly worn) folding cloth box, with paper spine labels. Frontispiece portrait in each volume, 23 full-page facsimiles, large and beautiful criblé initials throughout, criblé headpieces. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Extra paper title label tipped into the back of each volume. ◆A faint, pencil-thin vertical stain on dust wrapper of one volume (with transfer onto front free endpaper), jackets a little creased, tiny ink spot (from printing process) to edge of three leaves, otherwise (and apart from the boxes and the one missing jacket) a very fine copy, nearly unchanged from the day it left the press.
Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed on the finest quality paper available, this strictly limited large format luxury edition is famous as perhaps the most memorable single printing performance by the Riverside Press. It marks the debut of the first typeface Rogers designed, appropriately named "Montaigne," which, like his famed Centaur type, is based on the humanist typeface of Venetian printer Nicolas Jenson. Rogers (1870-1957) showed an early talent for book design: according to ANB, the adolescent Rogers "created a hand-lettered edition of William Cullen Bryant's 'Forest Hymn,' complete with imitation etchings bearing plate marks made by a kitchen iron." Rogers left his native Indiana to work for Boston publisher L. Prang and Company in 1895. He supplemented his income with freelance book design work, which came to attention of George H. Mifflin of Houghton, Mifflin & Company. As a result, Rogers was hired to work for the Riverside Press in 1896, and in 1900 he was put in charge of the newly created "Department of Special Editions," where he was given free rein to experiment with typography, paper, and binding. The department produced 60 "Riverside Editions" during Rogers' tenure. After leaving the Riverside Press in 1911, Rogers did freelance work before moving to England to collaborate with Emory Walker. He had a transatlantic career thereafter, and is best remembered today for his stately Oxford Lectern Bible, published in 1935..
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Essays of Lord Michael of Montaigne.
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