Titles starting with O from The Book Block

Newtown Bird & Bull Press, 1983. Oblong 8vo (4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), bound in quarter powder blue morocco gilt lettered spine over marbled paper covered boards with leather tips. The text is 64 pages followed BY FOURTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. This attractive book reprints the first American Treatise on Marbling, an account which appears in the April, 1829 issue of the Journal of the Franklin Institute, with additional text by Wolfe. Beautifully printed ... more information

Venice Girolamo Albrizzi, 1696. 8vo., full crushed brown 19th century morocco with plain sides. Spine with five raised bands and gilt titling.Albrizzi, the publisher, has used a number of the wood blocks from the Giolito editions of Ovid's Le Trasformationi [1553 and afterwards]. In the present edition, there are a total of 73 images measuring approximately 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, almost all of which, according to Ruth Mortimer, "...were designed for this [1553] edition." The history ... more information

New York Red Angel Press, 1977. 4to., (12 1/4 x 8 inches). Bound in quarter beige linen over blue cloth boards that are divided into 3 unequal sized compartments via horizontal grooves. The design of the boards is carried through to the text that also is creatively designed in a split page, tripartite format allowing the reader to visually experience the “simultaneousness” expressed in the three part poetry where each part represents a separate character interacting with the other two. The text ... more information

Easthampton Warwick Press, 1976. 8vo., stitched into green pastepaper wrappers with a paper label on the cover. One of 150 copies printed in van Krimpen's Spectrum type on Nideggen paper, in which the artist-printer-publisher describes the Warwick Press from inception to its three year anniversary and coincidentally celebrates her thirtieth year. There is a striking self-portrait on the title and a drawing of two ducks on the colophon, both touched with color. The colophon is signed by Ms. Blinn and is... more information

Phila. Wm. Spotswood, 1790. 8vo., contemporary sheep; rubbed but very solid, top of the spine chipped, spine label no longer readable; internally quite clean.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Ovid (there was a New York printing in 1795); this edition contains a Prosody Table and references (after the manner of Mr. Stirling), pointing out, at one view, the scanning of each verse; it also contains Davidson's English notes. The Latin text (with its English translation below), follows 40 pages of introdu... more information