Bruce Rogers papers and designs

ArchivalResource

Bruce Rogers papers and designs

1899-1952

The collection consists mainly of original sketches and finished ink drawings by Bruce Rogers for use in designing books produced during the years 1900-1951, and ephemera relating to his work, including prospectuses, pattern books, page proofs, programs, invitations and bookplates. Also included are seven small finished artworks by Bruce Rogers, a scrapbook relating to books designed during his tenure at the Riverside Press in Cambridge, and correspondence with Charles Eliot Norton, Daniel Berkely Updike, and Philip Hofer.

6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

eng, Latn

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8233446

Houghton Library

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Harvard college library

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s28v8m (person)

The Harvard College Library used ledgers to record the loans of books from the library's collection during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The presence of what appear to be call-slips from 1823 to 1826 and the lack of ledgers for this period is unaccounted for in the literature cited in the bibliography. Late in the nineteenth century, librarians recognized that the ledger system could not provide the flexibility needed to control large collections. At the Harvard College L...

Harvard University Press

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6912wh6 (corporateBody)

Harvard University Press was established by the Harvard Corporation as a separate department of the University on January 13, 1913. It acted as both a printing and academic publishing organization until 1942, when the University Printing Office was re-established as a separate unit and Harvard University Press became responsible for only publishing activities. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in London, England. Every book published by the HUP must undergo review by an...

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md9r1h (person)

Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh2rhn (person)

Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941) was a book designer and printer in New England. He was born an only child in an old and well-connected New England family, but his father's death in 1877 prevented Updike from pursuing higher education. Updike's Episcopalian background greatly influenced both his character and his later work as a printer, and his intellectual and cultural character was molded by his mother, an antiquary and scholar of French and English literature. Updike's first book-related j...

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68m1b8m (corporateBody)

Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jw8cw0 (person)

The collection was acquired over many years, ca. 1966-1999, from family members Fred Rudge and Edwin Rudge (WERIII), as well as Edwin Rudge's daughter, Joanna Rudge Long. Former Rudge employee and UCSB Special Collections consultant Hobart O. Skofield did much of the work accumulating the manuscript and related Rudge imprint collection,and also acquired materials from other Rudge alumni and various dealers. From the description of The William Edwin Rudge Collection, [ca. 1903 - 1983]...

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64f1r1g (person)

Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, editor, and teacher. He was a professor of the history of fine arts at Harvard. Eliot Norton was his son. From the guide to the Charles Eliot Norton letters to Eliot Norton, 1867-1908., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American author, editor, and educator. From the description of Letter to Edwin D. Mead [manuscript], 1881 May 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814472 ...

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63t9gr3 (person)

Indiana-born American book designer for the Riverside Press. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Danbury, Conn., to Mary Herrick f the Boston University Library, 1950 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270865113 Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), American typographer and book designer. From the description of Photoengravings used in The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1955. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 435687901 From the description of ...