Product Description: 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 ovr from D...read more

Product Description: In post-World War I America, teeming as it was with magazines, newspapers, radio broadcasts and movies, many feared that the survival of traditional, serious books was in peril. This concern led to a publishing boom in fine editions; books valued primarily for their beauty, craftsmanship, extravagance, status, or scarcity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With his Kelmscott Press and associations with the Arts & Crafts Movement, William Morris helped raise awareness for the book arts to new heights. This landmark study describes the true extent of Morris's influence on American bookmaking as Dr...read more