Tory Bruce (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rex Brasher, Robert Bruce Horsfall, Roger Tory Peterson (illustrator). Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Thick, large hardback revised in 1959. Previous owner's name label on inside front board. Light wear and bumping along edges of green cloth covers. Hinges sound, uncracked; pages tight, clean. No DJ. Not library discard. Illustrations.

cloth. 4to. cloth. x, 243 pages. First edition. Covers rubbed. Bubbling to the pastedowns. Else a near fine copy. Foreword by Michael H. Bruno. Numerous b/w photographs, figures, tables, advertisements and plates in both b/w and color.

Other Binding. Condition: New. 1st edition. New digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc) of the 1529 first edition of this classic of esotericism and design, as well as the celebrated 1927 English translation designed by Bruce Rogers and published by the Grolier Club. Geofroy Tory's Champ fleury belongs to that select class of works that continue to enlighten nearly five centuries after publication. Ostensibly a formal treatise on letters and letterforms, Tory's beautifully illustrated book contains, like the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, tantalizing hints of a larger and more comprehensive meaning and purpose to its enigmatic text and illustrations. This Octavo Edition contains detailed digital images of magnificent copies of the two editions from the Library of Congress (may be magnified at up to 200% of original size) as well as a new introduction by typography expert Kay Amert and detailed bibliographical information. Not Signed.

4to, (282x210mm), xvi,331p. profusely illustrated including several full-page colour plates. An ex-library copy in binders' cloth, covers slightly soiled. HEAVY BOOK, overseas customers please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based, email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and additional charges.

4to, (287mm), xvi,331p. profusely illustrated including several full-page colour plates. An ex-library copy in original cloth. HEAVY BOOK please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based and we may request additonal postage. Overseas customers are advised to email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and charges.

set of the unbound sheets. Rogers, Bruce (illustrator). 4to. set of the unbound sheets. 49-56 pages. A single signature from the famous Bruce Rogers-designed printing of this rare Grolier Club publication. First edition thus, limited to 390 copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin Rudge. English translation of this landmark 16th century book on the formation of letters presented in a beautiful illustrated format by Bruce Rogers. This is one of the most important examples of the design work of Rogers.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Allan Brooks, R. Bruce Horsfall, Sawyer, Louis Agassiz Fuertes (illustrator). Later Printing. Chatty briefs on common & singular birds by the pioneering ornithologist, for young readers, based on the author's Bird Lore leaflets; with illustrations & one color plate by the author; other color plates by Allan Brooks, R. Bruce Horsfall, Sawyer, Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; a later printing, without the date on the title page; scarce in the jacket. Book shows some wear, minor bumping to corners, light mottling & insect nibbling; jacket worn with chips, tears, holes. Text clean; xv, blank, 92 pages; line drawings, 24 color plates, as called for (the frontispiece is opposite page [1] rather than the title page). Size: Octavo.

Condition: Acceptable. 7 Volume Set.

Condition: Acceptable. Seven volume set [7 Volumes].

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). Geffroy Tory; Bruce Rogers (illustrator). Limited. Translated into English and annotated by George B. Ives. Tall 4to, 208 pages, many black & white illustrations and alphabets after Geoffrey Tory, many redrawn by Bruce Rogers who also designed the book. Bound in 1/2 vellum with decorative boards, original plain d.w. New York: Grolier Club, 1927. Fine. One of 390 copies.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good+ binding. Quarto. [6], xxiii, [1], 208, [2] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 390 copies. This copy bound by Don Glaister in full crimson goatskin with typographic design referencing Rogers's type design throughout the volumea stylized A on the front cover and Z on the rear tooled in blind and gold transitioning to painted lines. Glaister employs slightly raised and recessed areas beneath the leather with occasional light sanding, all to offer subtle dimensionality, a suggestive nod to the raise aspects of type. Crimson cork endpapers, gold and crimson silk headbands accent the original gold top-edge. Signed in blind on the rear pastedown with date and gold dot, "Donald Glaister 2025." Fine in clamshell. This edition, designed by Bruce Rogers is the first English translation of Tory's landmark work begun in 1523 and published 1529. Tory's influence on 16th century typography was immeasurablemoving French printing away from gothic types towards the roman faces, a movement that would define modern typography. D. B. Updike calls Tory's Champ Fleury "one of the important books in the history of letter design" (I, p. 188). A beautiful edition that took decades for Rogers to bring from a proposal to the Grolier Club to a printed edition. And of all he designed, it was among Rogers's favorite (#24 in BR Thirty). Tory's groundbreaking and forward-looking work had long been a classic text by the time Rogers designed this edition 400 years later. Now 100 years further on, Glaister adds his voice to this typographic tradition, and in his distinct style, takes these now-classic letterforms and nudges them into modernity. Haas 413. Grolier 361. Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types. 3rd ed. (1966).

One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Illustrated. xxiii, [i], 208, [1] pp. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York October, 1927. 1 vols. Small Folio (31 x 21 cm). Champ Fleury by Geofroy Tory, one of the great Rennaissance treatises on letter form, was reprinted by Bruce Rogers on commission from the Grolier Club. Completed in October of 1927, it was "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." (Bluemnthal, Bruce Rogers, pp. 97-98). "The illustrations and diagrams, instead of being reproduced directly from the original impressions, some of which were poorly printed, were redrawn by BR over photographic enlargements and thereby 'more nearly aproximate the original designs as they were meant to appear.' " (Ransom, p. 147). Ransom, Grolier Club, #85; One Hundred Books Famous in Typography 12A Original vellum-backed decorated boards. Yale bookplate. In custom cloth slipcase Illustrated. xxiii, [i], 208, [1] pp. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York October, 1927. 1 vols. Small Folio (31 x 21 cm) One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper.