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The centaur types / by Bruce Rogers.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1114
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Centaur roman type.
- Printing--Specimens.
- Printing.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain -Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 69, [23] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : October House, 1949.
- Chicago : Poole Brothers
- Notes:
- Title within ornamental border.
- Verso of plates blank but included in numbering.
- "1000 copies printed for October House at the press of Poole Bros. Inc. Chicago, 1949"--Colophon
- Original 1949 edition printed at the press of Poole Brothers, Inc., and published by Rogers' studio, October House, both located in Chicago.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy was a leftover unsold copy, later offered by Perdue to benefit its Library.Dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1557530521
- 9781557530523
- OCLC:
- 2640511
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