The First Flowering
Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press, 1896-1912
Will be published approx. on 18. September 2008
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-1-56792-374-2 (ISBN)
Description
Probably no book designer of the twentieth century has had more written about him, his work, or his life than Bruce Rogers. He was, as his primary biographer Joseph Blumenthal observed, the ultimate "artificer of the book." His career as a working designer spanned six decades, but arguably his finest (and certainly his happiest) years were spent at Cambridge's Riverside Press where he took over from D. B. Updike in 1896 and where he remained until 1912, overseeing his own department and designing at least sixty titles for Houghton Mifflin's list of Riverside Press Editions.
This small and elegantly produced volume contains an essay by Jerry Kelly outlining Rogers's tenure at Riverside, a checklist of all the work he executed there (for Houghton Mifflin as well as others), and twenty pages of reproductions displaying the full range of BR titles, specimens of printing that-as he later wistfully remarked-"give me a definite satisfaction."
This small and elegantly produced volume contains an essay by Jerry Kelly outlining Rogers's tenure at Riverside, a checklist of all the work he executed there (for Houghton Mifflin as well as others), and twenty pages of reproductions displaying the full range of BR titles, specimens of printing that-as he later wistfully remarked-"give me a definite satisfaction."
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56792-374-2 (9781567923742)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jerry Kelly is a calligrapher, book designer, and type designer; his work has been honored more than thirty times for the AIGA "Fifty Books of the Year." In 2015 he was presented with the 28th Goudy Award from RIT.
Before starting his own design business in 1998, Kelly was Vice President of The Stinehour Press, preceded by a decade as designer at A. Colish. Kelly has taught typography at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design in New York. Kelly has served as Chairman of the American Printing History Association, President of The Typophiles, and has written several books on calligraphy and typography, most recently Type Revivals.
Before starting his own design business in 1998, Kelly was Vice President of The Stinehour Press, preceded by a decade as designer at A. Colish. Kelly has taught typography at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design in New York. Kelly has served as Chairman of the American Printing History Association, President of The Typophiles, and has written several books on calligraphy and typography, most recently Type Revivals.