Titles starting with R from The Book Block

Boston Armstrong and Crocker and Brewster, 1822. 8vo., contemporary printed gray boards. An uncut and untrimmed. REMARKABLE SURVIVAL of a fragile binding, with minimal wear. This second American edition (after the seventh London edition), follows by a year the Philadelphia edition (which was after the fourth London edition). It was a very popular, albeit, pseudonymously written book in which the author, now a Minister of the Established Church, retells his travels to foreign lands as an officer in the Roya... more information

Easthampton Cheloniidae Press, 1981. 4to., (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches) bound by Gray Parrot in quarter gray Moroccan goat and black Japanese paper over boards with matching quarter leather tray case; leather on both stamped in “tire tread” design along with the book’s title. Title page etching and 11 woodengravings by Alan James Robinson. Hand set in 18pt. Arrighi and Centaur and printed on handmade Japanese paper. 58 pages. In the Introduction, Mr. Robinson says “I encountered m... more information

Oxford Daniel Press, 1919. Sm. 4to., bluish-green wrappers with yapp edges, a little worn in places, with the title lettered on the front cover. 130 Copies printed by Dr. Daniel, probably in 1903, were found in sheets after his death. A title-page a short preface by Mr. Madan were added at the Clarendon Press and the edition was issued by Mr. Leslie Chaundy, a bookseller of Oxford who also bound in a notice slip at the front.The work contains thirty-six beautifully printed, unpublished poems by S... more information