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[ROGERS, Bruce (1870–1957), book designer]. –– WOLFE, Humbert. The Silver Cat and Other Poems. [New York and London: William Edwin Rudge for The Bowling Green Press and Ernest Benn, 1928]. 8vo. Printed on rectos only. Silver foil cat device at foot of title, the title and text within silver foil borders designed by Bruce Rogers with his silver foil thistle mark and initials printed on the colophon. Original publisher’s olive-green paper over boards, spine stamped in silver foil; original plain olive-green dust jacket (two tiny chips at head, else fine). LIMITED EDITION, one of 780 copies printed in Granjon type on Strathmore Artlaid paper. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR with a 6–line verse of the poem he wrote for the Jubilee which was printed in the Jubilee number of “The Queen”. –– [ALSO:] with a TLS from the author to the recipient of the inscription, dated 4 May 1935, which explains the inscribed verse in the book. Haas 151.