The First Flowering: Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press, 1896-1912

by Jerry Kelly

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567923747
• ISBN13: 9781567923742
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"