[Rarebooks] FS: Geofroy Tory, 1/370 designed by Bruce Rogers with custom Cole binding

[charles agvent]

               BERNARD,  Auguste  Joseph [Bruce ROGERS].  GEOFROY  TORY
          PAINTER  AND ENGRAVER: FIRST ROYAL PRINTER:... AN ACCOUNT  OF
          HIS LIFE  AND  WORKS.  (Boston and New York):  The  Riverside
          Press 1909.  First  Edition. Quarto (7-5/8" x 11-1/4")  bound
          by American  binder Averill Cole in full green levant morocco
          with blind-tooled  border  and  a large center panel  on  the
          front cover  with  onlays of brown and green morocco  brought
          out by   a  background  of   brilliantly  dotted  gold;  wide
          doublures  with  a  pattern of small circle  onlays  matching
          those on  the cover and endleaves of drab watered silk,  gilt
          top, uncut.  xxii,  332, (8) pages. Copy #20 of 370  designed
          by Bruce  Rogers with illustrations taken from original  Tory
          books and  retouched  or  redrawn by  Rogers.  Translated  by
          George  B.  Ives. While not a copy or even an  adaptation  of
          Tory's    work,   Cole's  binding   design   shares   similar
          characteristics  and features Tory's printer's mark, the  Pot
          Casse,  on  the central onlay on the front cover.  A  similar
          binding  by Cole on the same title was featured in an article
          by Robert   Seaver,  "Some   Interesting  Bookbindings"  that
          appeared  in  THE AMERICAN PRINTER circa 1910.  Inscribed  in
          pencil  by  Walter  L.  Harden in  1912  to  noted  collector
          William  F.  Gable,  whose contemporary bookplate is  on  the
          verso of   the  front  endpaper.   A  later  bookplate   of a
          descendant  is  on the verso of the first  blank.  Prospectus
          with order  form  laid  in. A fine example of  a  beautifully
          printed  book in a lovely binding by Cole, who studied  under
          Louis Jacob  in  Brussels and who was in charge of  the  hand
          bindery  at  Riverside from 1908 to 1920. Cole was  awarded a
          gold medal  for her bindings at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
          in San  Francisco  in 1915. Sumptuous copy in a  fleece-lined
          slipcase with fine provenance.                       $6500

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