Roger Eliot Stoddard At Sixty-Five (Imprint No. 18)

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Roger Elliot Stoddard was a certified bibliophile, writer, incredible scholar, and great friend and teacher to many. He is known for his distinguished career as a curator of the Houghton Library, home to Harvard University’s primary collection of rare books. Stoddard was revered for his encyclopedic knowledge of the Houghton collection and his uncanny ability to find excellent additions to its already broad range of works. This compilation of anecdotes, poetry, and stories from friends, students, and peers, is a testament to Stoddard’s great impact in his field of academia.

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Set in Jenson and printed letterpress on paper made especially for the edition in the Czech Republic. The edition is limited to three hundred copies. Patron copies are hand-bound in moroccan goatskin. The balance is sewn in paper wrappers. Frontispiece photogravure portrait; reproduced pen and ink drawings throughout book; reproduced drawing of inhabited initial ‘B’ on p. 19; facsimile plates throughout.
Binding: Half blue morocco and bluish green textured paste paper boards. Top edges gilt. Five raised bands on spine; author gilt in one compartment. Red patterned endpapers. Black velvet-lined linen clamshell box, with author gilt on spine.

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9 1/2" x 6 1/2"
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This edition is limited to 300 copies
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