Order Nr. 143260 OVID IN LATIN & ENGLISH. D. Thomas, onna.

OVID IN LATIN & ENGLISH.

(Miniature Books).
  • N.P. (but Santa Cruz, CA): The Good Book Press, 1983.
  • Miniature book (1.5 x 3 inches)
  • quarter bound in black Morocco leather and blue handmade paper over boards, title in gold on cover, endsheets blue
  • (16) pages

Price: $75.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 143260

Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by Peter & Donna Thomas (Bibliography 1974 - 2020, A26; Bradbury, Peter & Donna Thomas, 10). Very light uneven fading to the front board, else a fine copy. Printed on a hand press using paper hand made by Peter and Donna Thomas. Handset in American Uncial and Centaur; Uncial in red. Two linoleum cuts and opening initial rubricated by Donna Thomas.

"The text is an excerpt... 'add little to little and there will be a great heap.'

From the bibliography: "We were invited to the first gathering of miniature-book publishers, held the summer of 1984 in Tipp City, Ohio. A fellow printer, Gene Holtan of Green Gables Press, suggested the text after we told him about the event and our plans to make a 'keepsake' book for it."