Lot 255
Golden Cockerel Press
Mabinogion
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, with illustrations by Dorothea Braby. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. One of 550 copies, folio, original orange half morocco, cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, wood-engraved frontispiece and title-page, full-page wood-engraved illustrations throughout, cloth sides slightly marked, small spot to limitation leaf. Together with 5 others: A. A. Milne, The Secret and Other Stories, New York: The Fountain Press, 1929, one of 742 copies signed by Milne on the half-title; ibid., When We Were Very Young, 1929, sixteenth edition, Winnie-the-Pooh, 1931, eleventh edition, Now We Are Six, 1927, second edition, all in original cloth; and Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, 1889, first edition