Homer. The Odyssey. London: Printed and published by Sir Emery Walker Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers 1932. 4to, full black leather, seven spine bands, gilt lettering, gilt devices with classical figure on title and top of first page of each Book, pages not numbered. One of 530 copies. In slipcase. Born in Linnwood, Indiana, Bruce Rogers (1870-1957) never used his given first name, Albert, and was known to friends and associates as "BR." He became interested in type design and book production soon after graduation from Purdue University. He initially worked for the Indianapolis News, then about five years after graduation, moved to Cambridge, MA, designing books for Riverside Press. In 1912 he moved to New York City, working as a designer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and on his own projects. Shortly after this he designed his famous Centaur, typeface, used in this edition of the Odyssey and for most of Rogers' work after 1915. In the New York Times obituary for Rogers, critic Walter Prichard Eaton is quoted as writing: "He [Rogers] makes a page of type so spaced and margined that it is as beautiful as a classic design..." Bruce Rogers is hailed as one of the most influential, if not the most influential, people in typographic and book-making arts in the 20th century in both England and America. His Oxford Lectern Bible is considered one of the finest ever published, and he presented copies to the Library of Congress and King George VI (via the Archbishop of Canterbury), a copy of which sold in these rooms for $10,000 in 2014. Provenance: The John Baxter Black Estate, Mansfield, OH Condition: Excellent. Minor areas of toning starting, especially where it contacts the leather of the covers. Slipcase with some wear.
Homer. The Odyssey. London: Printed and published by Sir Emery Walker Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers 1932. 4to, full black leather, seven spine bands, gilt lettering, gilt devices with classical figure on title and top of first page of each Book, pages not numbered. One of 530 copies. In slipcase. Born in Linnwood, Indiana, Bruce Rogers (1870-1957) never used his given first name, Albert, and was known to friends and associates as "BR." He became interested in type design and book production soon after graduation from Purdue University. He initially worked for the Indianapolis News, then about five years after graduation, moved to Cambridge, MA, designing books for Riverside Press. In 1912 he moved to New York City, working as a designer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and on his own projects. Shortly after this he designed his famous Centaur, typeface, used in this edition of the Odyssey and for most of Rogers' work after 1915. In the New York Times obituary for Rogers, critic Walter Prichard Eaton is quoted as writing: "He [Rogers] makes a page of type so spaced and margined that it is as beautiful as a classic design..." Bruce Rogers is hailed as one of the most influential, if not the most influential, people in typographic and book-making arts in the 20th century in both England and America. His Oxford Lectern Bible is considered one of the finest ever published, and he presented copies to the Library of Congress and King George VI (via the Archbishop of Canterbury), a copy of which sold in these rooms for $10,000 in 2014. Provenance: The John Baxter Black Estate, Mansfield, OH Condition: Excellent. Minor areas of toning starting, especially where it contacts the leather of the covers. Slipcase with some wear.
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