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A Specimen of the Folio Bible / designed by Bruce Rogers ; to be completed in 1932.

Accession number
PML 63917
Published
[Oxford] : [University Press], [1930-1931]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1973.
Notes
Cover title.
Includes specimen pages for the Oxford Lectern Bible; specimen title page gives imprint as: Oxford : Printed at the University Press, 1931.
Cf. Bruce Rogers : a life in letters / Joseph Blumenthal.
"The accompanying Prospectus of the Bruce Rogers' Lectern Bible was designed and printed by William E. Rudge's Sons for Oxford University Press March, mcmxxxvi"--Page [1] of blue folder.
Description
14 unnumbered pages ; 48 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in ink on page [4] of sample of "Divine Comedy": These pages for the Divine Comedy were made twenty years ago, but have not yet come to a realization[?] Bruce Rogers 1952.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr.
Binding
Dark brown boards backed in beige cloth, with printed label mounted onto front cover.
Classification
Department