Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
Books and Prints
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GREGYNOG PRESS
BLUNT, LADY ANNE & WILFRID SCAWEN. The celebrated romance of the stealing of the mare. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1930. One of 275 copies, of which this is one of 25 specially bound, this copy number 4. Full emerald green levant morocco, covers with a frame of simple gilt rules; signed on the bottom rear turn-in by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 12 inches (30 cm); binding 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (31 x 24 cm), top edge gilt. xii, 73 pp., the colophon on the verso of the final text page. Printed on Japanese vellum, with an extraordinary hand-colored frontispiece in gold and colors, and initials throughout similarly illuminated, all by Robert Ashwin Maynard. In a modern felt-lined clamshell case.
Among the most colorful of the Gregynog books. Harrop 16; Zilverdistel 16.
Sold for $3,438
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Includes Buyer's Premium
GREGYNOG PRESS
BLUNT, LADY ANNE & WILFRID SCAWEN. The celebrated romance of the stealing of the mare. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1930. One of 275 copies, of which this is one of 25 specially bound, this copy number 4. Full emerald green levant morocco, covers with a frame of simple gilt rules; signed on the bottom rear turn-in by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 12 inches (30 cm); binding 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (31 x 24 cm), top edge gilt. xii, 73 pp., the colophon on the verso of the final text page. Printed on Japanese vellum, with an extraordinary hand-colored frontispiece in gold and colors, and initials throughout similarly illuminated, all by Robert Ashwin Maynard. In a modern felt-lined clamshell case.
Among the most colorful of the Gregynog books. Harrop 16; Zilverdistel 16.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
