Name: Auction: Gregynog Press Agnes Miller Parker. Wood Engravings
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 937 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 694 Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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[Volume 1:] From The Fables of Esope. [Volume 2:] From XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales. Tregynon: Gregynog, 1996-7. One of 185 numbered copies from the total edition of 200, 2 volumes, folio, original cloth-backed patterned boards, slipcases, 44 wood-engraved plates printed on Japanese vellum from the original blocks; Whittington Press. John Craig. Britten's Aldeburgh. Risbury: Whittington Press, 1997. One of 352 numbered copies signed by the author, from the total edition of 440, folio, original half cloth, slipcase, 3 folding linocuts in colours and 3 folding wood-engravings (all tipped-in as issued), wood-engravings in the text (3)

Gregynog Press

Agnes Miller Parker. Wood Engravings

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