William Edwin Rudge

William Edwin Rudge is the name of a grandfather, father and son, all of whom worked in the printing business. It's also the name of their business.[1]

The first William Edwin Rudge (1835–1910) operated a small commercial print shop in New York City.[2]

William Edwin Rudge II (1876–1931) was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He went to work at age 13 at his father's print shop and in 1899 took it over due to his father's ill health.[3] In 1920 he entered over a hundred works in the National Arts Club Exhibition of that year. Of the thirty-nine medals awarded, his firm won six, with designs commissioned from Frederic W. Goudy, Bruce Rogers, and Elmer Adler.[citation needed]

In 1921 the plant was moved to Mount Vernon, N.Y. For the next ten years some of the finest printing being produced in America issued from its presses, dominated by Bruce Rogers, who designed eighty books for the firm up to 1931. Frederic Warde also worked for Rudge for two periods.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Printing and the Renaissance, John Rothwell Slater, 1921. The company name is on the title page and last page. Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Preliminary Guide to the William Edwin Rudge Collection".
  3. ^ Nipps, Karen. "The Cover Design." The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 75, no. 3 (2005): 372–74. Accessed at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/497313 August 25, 2021.