(ROGERS BRUCE) Tory Geofroy Champ Fleury

Sale 2289 - Lot 311

Price Realized: $ 360

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(ROGERS, BRUCE.) Tory, Geofroy. Champ Fleury. Translated into English and Annotated by George B. Ives. Illustrations by Tory re-drawn by Rogers. Folio, publisher's original gilt-lettered vellum over fleur-de-lys patterned paste paper boards, light natural discoloration; dust jacket, mild wear, split along one spine fold; slipcase, soiled and beginning to split at corners, penciled title at head of spine; Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York October, 1927. New York: The Grolier Club, 1927

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one of 390 unnumbered copies of the important rogers-grolier work, a reprinting of one of the great Renaissance treatises on letter form. ". . . a massive accomplishment in design and production, of first importance in the literature of the printed book. It is one of Rogers' most impressive volumes; its inclusion as one of the honored 'thirty' can not be questioned"--Blumenthal, Bruce Rogers, pages 97-98; Ransom, Grolier 85. Laid in is a holiday greeting from George and Alice Jones with a recut of Tory's woodcut of The Nativity from a Book of Hours printed by Simon Colines at Paris in 1543, printed in black and red.