[Bruce Rogers | Proof Copy + Production Copy] A New Portrait of James Boswell

Production Copy:

Tinker, Chauncey Brewster & Pottle, Frederick Albert. A New Portrait of James Boswell. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. Printed under the direction of Bruce Rogers. Limited to 425 copies. Color frontispiece portrait, plus 9 sepia plates with tissue guards. Printed on FJ Head & Co. handmade paper. Light maroon paper-covered boards, with cloth spine and title and authors in gilt. Measures 8.5" x 11.5". Includes original heavy grey mottled paper dust jacket, lightly edgeworn. Book has very slight wear at spine tips, and frontispiece tissue guard is nearly loose. Haas 137.

Proof Copy:

Bound proof with directions to the binder in pencil, mostly relating to the plates and tissue guards; a note on the ffep (in a different hand) mentions that the directions were written by Melvin Loos, typographer, designer, and superintendent at W.E. Rudge from 1925 to 1932. (This would indicate the volume was executed by Rudge and published by the Harvard University Press.)

This volume is printed on Glaslan handmade paper rather than FJ Head & Co. The binding of the volume is also different from the production version, with no blind stamped border to the covers, a red cloth spine (instead of blue), and no gilt lettering to spine.