Primarily an illustrator, with a few cover designs that use his artwork.

Primarily an illustrator, but some of his designs were used on the covers of the books he also illustrated.

Primarily a bookbinder, Peter Verburg apprenticed under bookbinder Ellen Starr Gates at the Hull House bindery in Chicago. For the Boston publisher L.C. Page, he provided at least one book cover, and a set of decorations that were reused in a set of titles by the author Nathan Gallizier. He later went on to become the directory of the bindery at the Merrymount Press, working for D.B. Updike.

Rose's circular (RTR) monogram was identified from a painting called "The White Peace", held in the collections of the Edinburgh City Art Centre.