P HOTO BY WM . H . EULER T HE WO RK O F BRUC E RO G ERS JACK O F ALL TRADES 2 MASTER O F O N E A CATALOGUE O F AN E X H I B IT I O N ARRAN G E D BY T H E AM E R I CAN I N ST ITUT E O F GRAP H I C ART S AN D TH E GRO L I E R C LUB O F N E W Y O RK C B Y D . B PD I K E W ITH AN I NTRO D U T I O N . U M A L ETT E R F ROM J O H N T . C CUT C H E O N AN D AN ADD R E S S BY MR . RO G E R S NEW Y ORK O X FORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1 9 3 9 O I BY O O U N EW O INC . C PYRIGHT, 9 39 , XF RD NIVERSITY PRESS , Y RK , PRINTED IN T HE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA P R E F A C E THIS catalogue was prepared to accompany an exhibition o The Work o Bruce Ro ers arran ed b a oint com f f g , g y j mittee of The ri merican Institute of Graphic d rts and — B ai an F d ick . The Grolier Club David Silve, Ch rm , re er nt and F B H . Ke red Car r . W Adams r Melbert . , y ” y, y ” , ic a d It was shown at the house o The Grolier er W r e . f Club in N ew York rom N ovember 1 6 1 8 to an , f , 9 3 , y uar 8 1 the two institutions seekin in this wa to y , 9 39 , g y do honour to the Printer . The kindness and co-operation of all those who so gener ous lent m aterial or the exhibition whose names are ly f , iven on another a e and o all who hel ed in the re ara g p g , f p p p tion of the exhibition and in the making of the catalogue a at a no d S ia n a du to re gr efully ck wle ged. p ec l tha ks re e [Miss Ruth She ard Granniss Librarian o The Grolier p , f Club or th a an m nt o x ibition e rr e e the e h . , f g f Th e illustrations in the catalogue were assembled by D avid Silve and their production was contributed by en raver rin ter and a er- maker riends o Bruce Ro ers g , p , p p f f g , amon them M elbert B Car who ave th in rt . ia e se g y, 7 , g ‘ ’ concernin On Dr - cow Fis in g y h g . t erever possible the work of Bruce Rogers noted in the catalo ue has been arran ed in chronolo ica o d g g g l r er . cata o ue ha been r a d b Richard on Th e l s e re Marie L. s g p p y . However the books o those esses at whic M Ro r h r . ers , f p g “ worked for considerable time have been segregated under n o Som at ia a oo the ames the resses . e m er l such s b k f p , lates studies desi ns or rinted w ork did n ot lend itsel p , , g f p , f to this treatm ent and has therefore been p ut in alphabetical o The sketch es a ou h bot eo a ica nd rder . re r g ly h g gr ph lly a n chronologically arra ged. ‘ ’ The word mark has been inserted in the entry when a ’ ’ o ca i on o Ro er rinte s mark ither on b ok rr es e f Mr . g s p r s e - o the title page or on the col phon page . References have been given for those items app earing in ’ i d i o o o T e abbre eviou ubl sh l sts R ers w rk . h pr slyp e fMr . g viations represent: d F N O F : War e rederic . G D w , BRUCE RO ERS , ESIG ER KS N o 8 in t i catalo u T e numb re er 2 2 h s e . h ers BOO . ( . g ) f i to the tems . aa I in A L N o : H s rv . : . H , BRUCE ROGERS BIB IOGRAPHY ( 3 9 2 in this catalogue ) The n umbers refer to the num bered items; the p age numbers refer to pages on which in n d i th ere are certa u numbere tems . ’ : T HE C P Se tember PACKET BOOK OLLECTORS ACKET, p , 1 8 i tic b I vin Haas on a es 1 and 2 0 with . z r le r 9 3 y p g 9 , m n u b d and o unnumb d it m so e m ere s me ere e s . W N H . ATSON KE T L I S T O F L E N D E R S MR N E LMER ADLER S . SHERMA POST HAIGHT N V HAMILTO . BAIL MRS . WILLIAM HAND A BA KER G . COMPANY HA RVAR D UNIVERSITY O F R R BO W KER ESTATE . LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ARVAR D U N IVERSITY PRESS H PRESS T HE CLUB O F O D D VOLUMES H OUGHTON MIFF LIN COMPA N Y D WILFOR S . CONROW W KEN T H . FRE D ERICK COYKE N DALL A ALFRED . KNOPF C DUSC HN ES PHILIP . LA N ST O N MONOTYPE T HE ELI Z ABET AN C LUB H A N M CHINE COMPA Y , O F YA LE UNI VERSITY PHILA D ELPHIA J OH N FASS T HE MACMIL LA N MAURICE FIRUS K1 COMPANY MARGARET AVERY GASH GEORGE MACY GEORGE GRADY T HE METROPO LITAN MUSEUM O F A RT MISS RUTH SHEPARD GRANNISS STAN LEY MORIS O N BEN A T A MUN D ER GRAUER NORM N . T HE N EW E YORK PUBLIC DAVID . ROSS LIBRARY T HE RO W FA N T CLUB N EW YORK UNIVERSITY S . R SHAPI RO PRESS . DAVID SILVE HERMAN ORIEL THE CITY LIBRARY L W N A FRED . PAI E T ASSOCIA ION , M A PI ERSO N MRS . SPRINGFIELD , MASS . T G C . D DAVID . POTTIN ER BERTRAN THOMPSON PUR D UE UNIVERSITY T HE THOMSEN E LLIS LIBRARY C O MPANY WIL LIAM REY D EL FREDERIC WARDE DR R B W ET HERI LL BRUCE ROGERS . T E CARL PURING ON . WEYHE R0 LLI NS MR A D MR E O LF N S . C W . N MISS MARIA M . ROOT I D LESS NG J . ROSENWAL C O N T E N T S I N T RO DUCT O RY NOTE BY DANIEL BERKE LEY UPDIKE T HE M BRUCE ROGERS , AN BY JOH N T . MCCUTCHEON AN ADD RESS xxvu BY BRUCE ROGERS CATALOGUE BO OKS AND PAMPH LETS STUDIES AND DRAWINGS GREETING CARD S BOOK—PLATES AND LABELS O O BR ADSIDES , F LDERS , ANNOUNCEMENTS , ETC . UN D ATED PIECES FACETIAE STUDIES AN D DRAWINGS DESIGNS FO R BINDERS TO O LS A N D BOOK CO VERS S KETCHES IN BLAC K A N D WHITE S KETCHES IN O I L A N D IN WATER- COLOUR MISCELLANEOUS DESIGNS ADDENDA I N T R O D U C T O R Y N O T E BY DAN IEL BERKELEY UPDIKE IN writing anything wo rth while ab o ut an exhibiti o n of the wo rk of the most distinguished Ame ric an designe r b o o ks v of in our time, it is not for me to gi e a description of what has been so adequately desc ribed in many quarters, or to praise further what has already been dis r m k c i in atingly praised b oth here and abroad . The tas — that I propose to myself is to co nsider very b rie fly what appear to me to be the reasons for this work bei n g fl th e what it is, and how far it re ects the personality of man who produced it . ’ n e k O of the remar able things about Mr . Rogers k -b - wor is that, without the preliminary trial y error ffl -b e fin e k which a icts most would designers of boo s, his first boo k issued b y the Riverside Press was the produc Th o n e tion of an accomplished master of his art . us is unable to see retrogression or progression in the books b at e shown in this exhi ition, and although first glanc m u it this see s a dubio s compliment, on consideration f e will be seen to be very high praise . O course c rtain x11 books have properly and inevitably lent themselves to a k ind of magnificence in typography and design that k ‘ i ’ ma es them automatically exhib tion pieces . But others, demanding more sober treatment, show no less success in arriving at what their designer intended them to be . ‘ ’ In short, Rogers at the first step got into his stride and k b there was no learning to wal y distressing tumbles .