Gregynog Press
5 limited editions
£555
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1925-40. Comprising:
Psalmau Dafydd yn ol William Morgan, 1588, 1929. One of 225 copies, 4to, original orange quarter morocco, patterned paper sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, decorative title page printed in red and black, initials printed in red and blue, several with foliate flourishes;
Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsc. Ellis Wynne. Visions of the Sleeping Bard. Translated by T. Gwynn Jones, 1940. One of 175 copies, 4to, original red quarter morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, red cloth sides printed with geometric pattern in gilt, bevelled edges, fore and bottom edges of textblock untrimmed, wood-engraved frontispiece by Blair Hughes-Stanton, spotting to edges of textblock;
Llyfr y Pregeth-wr [The Book of Ecclesiastes], 1927. One of 250 copies, 4to, original limp blue buckram, headings, side-notes and publisher's device to colophon all printed in red, wood-engraved title-device and plate by David Jones, partly unopened, spine sunned, 2 limited editions prints after David Jones laid in (each ‘one of an edition of sixty impressions printed from the original block by Alan Bultitude for the Gillian Jason Gallery by permission of the David Jones Estate, 1989’);
Caneuon Ceiriog Detholiad, 1925. One of 400 copies, 4to, original holland-backed patterned paper boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, woodcut frontispiece and pictorial head- and tailpieces, initials printed in red, spine-label browned, rubbing to extremities, tips slightly bumped and worn;
The Misfortunes of Elphin by Thomas Love Peacock, 1928. One of 250 copies, 8vo, original cloth, wood-engraved illustrations in text, spine slightly toned and marked (5)