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RES at Sixty-Five: A Celebration

By Various
Illustrated by John Hutton

2000
Blue morocco and blue paste paper -- Out of Print
White paper wrappers

Authors Include
Anne Anninger
Peter Accardo
William H. Bond
Marcus A. McCorison
Luke Ives Pontifell
Rodney G. Dennis
Hugh Amory
Michael Winship
André Jammes

In acknowledgement of Roger Stoddard‘s sixty-fifth birthday, the decades that he has devoted to the study and collection and preservation of books, and the inspiration that he has lavished on students and bibliophiles, we are happy to announce the forthcoming publication of Roger Eliot Stoddard at Sixty Five: A Celebration. A tribute to a great bookman and friend!

In 1958 the legendary William A. Jackson called Roger Stoddard to the Houghton Library at Harvard as his assistant for a term of three years. Stoddard returned to Brown University and the Harris Collection of American Poetry in 1961, but came back to Harvard in 1965 when he was appointed Assistant Librarian of the Houghton Library. He has remained there since, holding the title of Senior Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library while creating an internationally recognized curatorial career.

Mr. stoddard is a Senior Lecturer in Harvard University’s English Department and leads the course in bibliography that was initiated by George Parker Winship and later continued by Jackson and William H. Bond. Through his teaching and scholarship, Roger Stoddard has introduced young scholars to the mysteries and delights of bookmanship. He is a prolific writer and is currently president of the Bibliographical Society of America.

On the occasion of Roger Stoddard’s sixty-fifth birthday, a group of friends and colleagues has written and compiled a volume of Rogeriana to be published in December, 2000.

The Edition:

Roger Eliot Stoddard at Sixty Five: A Celebration is printed letterpress on handmade paper and hand-bound. Each contains a photogravure portrait of Roger E. Stoddard and is individually numbered. The edition, designed and produced at Thornwillow Press, is limited to 300 copies.