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Pforzheimer collection of Bruce Rogers materials, 1200-1957

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Printing Samples, 1892-1961 (continued)
Rogers-designed Glaslan; Maidstone; Roxburghe; Designs and typography for cover paper
Canson and Montgolfier
Grosvenor, Chater
Hurlbut
Japan Paper
Miscellaneous
BOX 59 Stevens-Nelson (3 folders)
Strathmore
Worthy
BOX 60 Unidentified
BOX 61 Unidentified
BOX 62 Stationery designed by Rogers for his own use, undated (6 folders)
BOX 63 Stationery and envelopes designed by Rogers for himself, Pforzheimer Library, and Biblio Corp., undated (8 folders)
BOX 64 Type design Letters, 1926-1951, n.d. (14 folders). See also Box 9, oversize: Mock-ups, trial proofs, etc. of letters designed by Rogers
BOX 65 Type design Letters, 1926-1951, n.d. (14 folders). See also Box 9, oversize: Mock-ups, trial proofs, etc. of letters designed by Rogers
BOX 66 Type design Letters, 1911-1946, n.d. (5 folders). Specimen sheets collected by Rogers on Goudy, Greek, and other types. Includes miscellaneous pages from type catalogs.
BOX 67 Type design Letters, 1927-1947, n.d.
Eastern Corp. specimen sheets (5 folders)
Monotype, v. 21, no. 72 (4 folders)
BOX 68 Type design Letters, 1920-1948, n.d. Monotype and Linotype catalogs collected by Rogers (6 folders). See also Box 138 for type specimen books
BOX 69 Type design Ornaments, undated. Mock-ups, proofs, etc. of designs by Rogers (15 folders).
BOX 70 Type design Ornaments, 1928-1948, n.d. Miscellaneous catalogs and sheets collected by Rogers (3 folders)
BOX 71 Type design Title pages and plates collected by Rogers, ca. 1508-1941 (19 folders). Title pages, etc. from pre-1801 works, including facsimiles and manuscript leaves
BOX 71a Miscellaneous plates, including over 200 by Ruskin
BOX 7, oversize Broadsides. See also box 9, oversize. Cataloged individually on the Library of Congress database, search under call number Pforzheimer Rogers oversize 6"
BOX 6, oversize Albion Press, 1956 (1 item)
American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1924-1925 (3 items)
Atlantic Charter, [ca. 1941) (9 items) see also Box OV 6
Bedford Club, undated (1 item)
Centaur see Box 9, oversize
Charles Beck Co., undated (1 item)
Club of Odd Volumes, 1911-1952 (6 items)
De Forest, Robert, 1919-1922 (2 items)
Double Crown Club, 1930 (1 item)
Douglas C. McMurtrie Inc., 1926 (1 item)
Goudy, Frederic (1 item, Frederic W. Goudy 1932)
Henry Lindenmeyr and Sons, undated (1 item)
Illian, George, undated (1 item, Ultramarine Dance)
Joseph W. Lippincott Award 1939
Koopman, H.L., undated (1 item)
Laboratory Press, [ca. 1924] (1 item)
Lanston Monotype, undated (2 items)
Lincoln, Abraham. Excerpts from the Second Inaugural Address ..., undated (1 item)
Liber librorum, 1955 (2 items)
Macy, George, 1937-1958 (2 items)
Marchbanks Press, 1923, n.d. (5 items). 4 original posters, with woodcuts by Allen Lewis, Rhyme Sheet vacation announcement no. 10
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1928(1 item)
Morris, William, 1932 (1 item, Song)
Murray, Alexander G.W., 1919 (1 item)
New York School of Printing, 1939 (1 item)
Plymouth, Mass., 1921 (1 item)
Poetry Bookshop, undated (2 items). Rhyme Sheet nos. 8, 10 (ill. by Lovat Fraser)
Rogers, Bruce. When a man writes a book ..., 1954 (14 copies)
Root, Elihu, 1923 (1 item)
Selection of the Work of Bruce Rogers, 1948 (poster by Emmons)
United States. Declaration of Independence. See Box 30, oversize
Whittier, John G., undated. Quotation; illumination by Thomas Rogers?
BOX 8, oversize Certificates and diplomas, 1917-1952, n.d.
Chess set design (possibly for Philidor book proposed by David J. Way?), undated (3 folders)
BOX 9, oversize Map of New Fairfield (Conn.), 1942
Miscellaneous, 1951, n.d.
Paper samples, undated (2 folders)
Printers' marks, undated
Type design Letters and ornaments, 1931-1948, n.d
Centaur broadsides
Inscriptions on buildings (Hunter College, Flagler, etc.)
BOX 10, oversize Original leaves (mainly pre-1801) collected by Rogers
BOX 11, oversize Designed or collected by Earl Emmons; purchased by Pforzheimer with associated correspondence, 1923-1942 (4 folders)
Edited galleys and published copy of Rogers' In Reply: An Open Letter from an Arranger of Types to the Greatest Designer of Them All
Prep material and published copies (including scroll) of An Unholy Bible Story
Prep material and published copies of The Saga of Barnacle Bruce, the Sailor and Sequel to the Saga of Barnacle Bruce, the Sailor
Published copies of a Bookplate for Bruce Rogers; An Account of the Making of the Oxford Lectern Bible; Italian Old Style; Monotype (v. 9, no. 6, 1923); PM (v. 2, no. 5, 1936)
BOX 72-73 BOX oversize 12-30 Art Work, 1508-1957
The Artwork series contains numerous watercolors as well as drawings by Rogers. Also included are watercolors and other artwork by his daughter, Elizabeth Rogers Burroughs. This section contains prints collected by Rogers, mainly by contemporaries such as Walter Tittle and Rudolph Ruzicka, but includes older prints from the likes of Marcantonio Raimondi.
Arranged alphabetically by artist
BOX 72 Original drawings, prints, and watercolors by Rogers (7 folders). See also Boxes 46-47, 12-15, oversize
BOX 72a Original watercolors by Rogers (9 folders). See also Boxes 13-15, oversize
BOX 73 Artwork collected by Rogers (24 folders). See also Boxes 16-19, oversize
Bone, Muirhead (photomechanical reproduction, undated)
Burne Jones-Carrick (2 woodcuts; 1930, n.d.)
Burroughs, Elizabeth Rogers (12 folders). See also Box 16, oversize
Watercolors, drawings, etc., including sketchbook
Dürer-Dwiggins (2 restrikes, 1 watercolor and ink drawing; 1916, n.d.)
Hartz-Hopson (engravings and etching, 1910-1945)
Hunt, C.A.
Illian-Kappel (linocut and drypoint aquatint; 1922, n.d.)
Philbrick-Pont (drypoint aquatint and engraving; 1937, n.d.)
Raimondi, Marcantonio (probably a restrike of Venus Mars and Cupid, 1508)
Ruzicka, Rudolph (woodcut, undated). See also Boxes 48, 18, oversize
Sharp. Portrait drawing of Rogers, signed.
Tittle, Walter B. (drypoint aquatint, undated). See also Box 19, oversize
Unidentified, undated
Artwork collected by Pforzheimer (woodcuts, 1932-1944)
Artwork collected by Frederic Warde (Ruzicka woodcut, 1935)
BOX 12, oversize Drawings by Bruce Rogers, undated. Includes panoramic sketch of New York City
Drawings by others
Drawings for Robin Hood by Edward A. Wilson, 1957
Sketch of Bruce Rogers, signed by Ivins, undated.
Watercolors by Bruce Rogers, 1894, n.d.
BOX 13, oversize Scenes of New England, England, Nassau, etc., undated
BOX 14, oversize Scenes of New England, England, Nassau, etc., undated
BOX 15, oversize Scenes of New England, England, Nassau, etc., undated
BOX 16, oversize Watercolors and other artwork by Elizabeth Rogers Burroughs, 1924, n.d.
BOX 17, oversize Paintings (mainly watercolors) collected by Rogers, 1952, n.d.
Bird, J.D.K. (1 item)
Kielland-Brandt, Edith (1 item)
McLachlan, John (1 item)
Tittle, Walter (1 item)
Wilson, Edward A. (1 item)
Unidentified (2 items; 1 possibly by Elizabeth Rogers Burroughs)
BOX 18, oversize Prints collected by Rogers, 1518-1950, n.d.
Agostino Veneziano (1 item, gift of Walter and Helen Tittle)
Aquila, Petrus (restrike, gift of W. and H. Tittle)
Cleland, Thomas (1 screenprint) see also Box 22, oversize
Ghisi, Giorgio (2 etchings, 1 the gift of W. and H. Tittle; the other after Perino del Vaga's Neptune with Two Sea Horses)
Holbein, Hans (2 mounted woodcut samples)
Hopfer, Jerome (etching: Apollo)
Kappell, Philip (2 drypoint etchings, 1 aquatint)
Hopfer, Jerome (etching: Apollo)
Katsushika, Hokusai (1 woodblock print)
Kent, Norman (7 originals and electrotypes from linocuts, some signed)
Kunichika, Utagawa (woodblock print)
Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (woodblock print)
Lewis, Allen see Box 7, oversize, under Marchbanks Press
Murray, Waldo (woodcut or linocut, signed)
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