[Bruce Rogers | Signed] Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Rood, Lily Lewis. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: A Sketch. Boston: L. Prang and Company [J.M. Bowles], 1895. Designed by Bruce Rogers, and signed by him on the flyleaf. Printed in Old Style Antique type. Limited to 500 copies [unstated]. 29 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates. 2 illustrations, 2 portraits. Grey paper covers with black lettering to front cover. Measures approx. 6" x 9.25". Some light edgewear to covers and pages. Spine repaired, in addition to new stitching. Warde 6. 

Small bookplate of Carl Purington Rollins, author of B.R., America's Typographic Playboy (1947), in addition to being involved in the "community of New Clairvaux (New Clairvaux Press), Dyke Mill (Montague Press), and the Yale Press, as well as his own hand press, At the Sign of the Chorobates" (Archives at Yale).

A very scarce BR "incunabula" title