The noblest roman
Subtitle: a history of the Centaur types of Bruce Rogers
By: by Jerry Kelly & Misha Beletsky
Series: Book Club of California publication -- number 236; Publication (Book Club of California) -- no. 236
Publisher: The Book Club of California
Published: 2016
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780981959795
Subjects: Type and type-founding; History; Centaur roman type; Roman type; Type designers
Notes: Foreword by Amelia Hugill-Fontanel.

"Three hundred signed and numbered copies of this book have been printed for the Book Club of California. It is set in three digital versions of Bruce Rogers's Centaur type: the text in a recent revival of the original foundry Centaur, rendered by Jerry Kelly, and a new caption Centaur by Toshi Omagari, used in this book for the first time, with monotype Centaur used for display. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly, New York City"--Colophon.

Title page and some pages of text printed in red and black.

Issued in slipcase.

"Centaur at the Grabhorn Press": 16 unnumbered pages between pages 94 and 95.

"Three hundred signed and numbered copies of this book have been printed for the Book Club of California"—Colophon.

"Books printed in the original foundry Centaur type": page 102.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-113) and index.

Copy 209 of 300. Signed by the author on the colophon page.