(Albert) Bruce Rogers - External Links, Source

Typographer and book designer, born in Linnwood, Indiana, USA. Trained as an artist, in 1895 he moved to Boston to the Riverside Press, and from 1900 worked in their new limited editions department. Among his typeface designs are the Montaigne (1901) and the Centaur (1915). He became adviser to the Cambridge University Press, UK (1916), the Harvard University Press (1919–34), and the Oxford University Press, where he designed the Oxford Lectern Bible (1935).

Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 - May 18, 1957) was an American typographer born in Lafayette, Indiana. Rogers designed more than 400 books.

Rogers recieved a B.S.

Rogers died on May 18, 1957 in New Fairfield, Connecticut. a hodge-podge of the letters, papers, and addresses written during the last sixty years, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972. The making of the Bruce Rogers World Bible, Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1949. Bruce Rogers, designer of books And Bruce Rogers: a bibliography; hitherto unrecorded work 1889-1925, complete works 1925-1936, by Irvin Haas.

External Links

An exhibit of Rogers' work at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts An article on Centaur, a font designed by Rogers, in Harvard Magazine

Source

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006.