[1] Rogers was known for his "allusive" typography, rejecting modernism, seldom using asymmetrical arrangements, rarely using sans serif type faces, often favoring faces such as Bell (at the time known only as Brimmer), Caslon, his own Montaigne, a Jensonian precursor to his masterpiece of type design Centaur.

He enrolled at age 16, and was quickly recognized in his studies of illustration, allowing him to work with University catalogs, lettering for the yearbook, and the College Quarterly Magazine.

More than sixty of these Riverside Press Editions were designed by Rogers, decorated with illustrations and ornament largely by him, and printed on handmade, damped paper.

[7] In 1916 Rogers left for England to work with Emery Walker, hoping to establish a press for fine editions.

However, because of wartime conditions, only one book was produced, and Rogers soon sought employment with the Cambridge University Press.

[9] In 1928 Rogers left for England in hopes of producing an edition of Homer's Odyssey translated by T. E. Lawrence.

The project took four years and the fine book was printed in Centaur types, on gray handmade paper, bound in black Niger leather.

Rogers purchased October House, his residence in New Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1925, and made this his permanent home from 1932 until his death.