The Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers collection.
Contributors: Emmons, Earl H., 1888-; Goudy, Frederic W. 1865-1947.; Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948.; Kent, Norman, 1903-1972.; Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971.; Lawrence, T. E. 1888-1935.; Pollard, Alfred W. 1859-1944.; Pforzheimer, Carl Howard, 1879-1957.; Rollins, Carl Purington, 1880-1960.; Tittle, Walter, 1883-1966.; Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941.; Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933.; Warde, Frederic, 1894-1939.; American Institute of Graphic Arts.; Club of Odd Volumes.; Double Crown Club.; Grolier Club.; Harvard University. Press.; Houghton, Mifflin and Company.; Lanston Monotype Machine Company.; Limited Editions Club.; Mall Press.; Monotype Corporation.; Montague Press.; Oxford University Press.; Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.); Typophiles (New York, N.Y.); William Edwin Rudge (Firm); Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1870
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
Subjects: Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.; Book design -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.; Book design -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.; Book designers.; Fine books.; Centaur roman type.; Printing -- Specimens.; Typography.
Genres: Sources.; Specimens.
Description: The papers include correspondence, book preparatory materials, printed ephemera, various samples used in book design and bookmaking, photographs, prints, paintings, and personal memorabilia, covering the period 1870-1981, with the bulk of the material from 1900-1955. Correspondents include Henry Watson Kent, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Emery Walker, Frederic Warde, and many others. The book preparatory materials are drafts, proof pages, unbound sheets, and illustrations for Rogers's books. Printing samples include bookplates and printers' marks designed by Rogers for himself and others, as well as other ephemera designed or collected by Rogers. Writings and speeches includes numerous drafts in Rogers's hand as well as typescripts of writings by Henry Watson Kent. Art includes Rogers's own watercolors, drawings, and prints; also numerous drawings and paintings by his daughter Elizabeth Rogers Burroughs. Of the many other artists, Rudolph Ruzicka, Norman Kent, and Walter Tittle are well represented. Photographic portraits of Rogers and his contemporaries, such as T.E. Lawrence, are also included. Original type, a statue of Manutius, and other realia are included in the Restricted section.
Notes: Container list of papers and catalogue of books with index available in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Cite as: Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress).
Gift of the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, July, 1990.
Bruce Rogers was a book designer, type designer, and author active in the United States and England; designer of such notable books as the Oxford Lectern Bible; creator of "Centaur" typeface; associated with Riverside Press, Montague Press, Mall Press, Harvard University Press, William Edwin Rudge, Oxford University Press, Limited Editions Club, and others; author of Paragraphs on printing, and other works.
In English. Includes material in French, Greek, and Latin.
Originally collected by Bruce Rogers. After his death in 1957, the collection was purchased by Carl Pforzheimer Sr.