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Price: US$27.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small folio hardcover in ornate fleur-de leys type cover, VG, tight and straight spine/binding, pages bright and unmarked, bumped corner and quarter-size loss of design on front. Limited ed. To 1100 copies, signed by Bruce Rogers. ; Essays; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 190pp pages
Seller: Mossback Books, hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Description: Quarto, xi, 190 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus portfolio. Portfolio in green cloth, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Spine is green with faded gold print. Boards quarter bound with green cloth to spine and decorative green and gold paper to boards. Wrapped in age-toned cellophane. Text block has has gilt top edge, deckle edges, tanning to endpapers, slight occasional foxing within, paged uncut. Signed in ink by the printer on the limited edition page. Note: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Quarto and Folio Case. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. 1372683. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
BACON, Francis. Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall. , 1944.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: BACON, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall. Orig. cloth-backed patterned boards; T.e.g. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. 4to. Limited to 1100 numbered copies printed at the Press of William E. Rudge, under the direction of Bruce Rogers, and signed by him. With an Introduction by Christopher Morley and Postscript by A.S. W. Rosenbach. Small bookplate, else fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: One of 1100 copies designed and signed by Bruce Rogers. 1 vols. 4to. Signed by Bruce Rogers. Bound in quarter blue cloth and decorated boards, t.e.g. Fine One of 1100 copies designed and signed by Bruce Rogers.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
BACON, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1944.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Introduction by Christopher Morley and note by A.S.W. Rosenbach. 4to. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and green/gold decorative paper over boards, green cloth-covered clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. ix, 190pp (mostly uncut). Top edge gilt. Fine/very good. Mild wear and age toning to clamshell case. Tight and handsome copy of these renowned early 17th century essays by the philosophizing statesman, 1st Viscount St. Alban and Lord Verulam (1561-1626) -- fifth title in their 15th series. Printed at the noted press of William E. Rudge's Sons, the colophon at rear notes their lower World War Two limitation of 1100 numbered copies (this #1073) signed by legendary book designer Bruce Rogers. NEWMAN 157.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First, thus, no. 615 of limited edition of 1100 copies, designed and SIGNED by Bruce Rogers (typographer and type designer said to be one of the greatest book designers of the twentieth century). Oversize hardback in folding portfolio slipcase. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Fine, with glassine jacket, in very good slipcase, a little worn at spine head.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: Tall folio in gold and green hardcovers with vinyl protector; VG; minimal soiling; ex-libris taken off from back cover; age-toned parchment paper with deckled eges; text in large print; pp. 190; signed by book designer on end page; shelved in Case # 10; please contact us for shipping costs; GP consignment. 1260428. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club (# 838 of 1,100); signed.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #834 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has created a lovely presence for these marvelous essays and who has SIGNED the colophon page. Fine in glassine and about Fine clamshell box
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$341.68 + shipping
Description: folio. pp. ix, [3], 190, [1 leaf]colophon. decorative initials. coat of arms on title. printer's device at end. title & colophon in red & black. original quarter cloth, t.e.g. (light shelf-wear, else very good). without the slipcase. Limited to 1100 numbered copies, signed by the Designer, Bruce Rogers. Introduction by Christopher Morley, bibliographical note by A.S.W.Rosenbach, decorative initials and design by Bruce Rogers, printed on Worthy special paper by William E.Rudge's Sons, NY, set in monotype Shakespeare, the design by Rogers based on the Janson type face, bound by Russell-Rutter Company, NY, the sides of the book covered in gold and blue paper with an Elizabethan design re-drawn by Rogers. LEC Quarto-Millenary 157.Philosophy Bruce Rogers
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada