Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
Books and Prints
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GREGYNOG PRESS
ABERCROMBIE, LASCELLES. Lyrics and unfinished poems. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1940. One of 175 copies, of which this is one of 20 specially bound, this copy number 12. Original blue-grey oasis morocco, covers with a broken transverse band of gilt rules at the foot, a pendant arrangement of vertical rules of varying thickness above, and descending triangle of rules at the head; signed by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 11 1/4 inches (28 cm); binding 11 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (29 x 20 cm), top edge gilt. xii pp. including title, 82 pp., plus colophon leaf. Housed in the original Gregynog drop-back case.
The last of the books of the Gregynog Press proper. The tradition would not be revived until the Gwasg Gregynog was revived in the 1980s. Harrop 42; Zilverdistel 42.
Sold for $1,188
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GREGYNOG PRESS
ABERCROMBIE, LASCELLES. Lyrics and unfinished poems. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1940. One of 175 copies, of which this is one of 20 specially bound, this copy number 12. Original blue-grey oasis morocco, covers with a broken transverse band of gilt rules at the foot, a pendant arrangement of vertical rules of varying thickness above, and descending triangle of rules at the head; signed by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 11 1/4 inches (28 cm); binding 11 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (29 x 20 cm), top edge gilt. xii pp. including title, 82 pp., plus colophon leaf. Housed in the original Gregynog drop-back case.
The last of the books of the Gregynog Press proper. The tradition would not be revived until the Gwasg Gregynog was revived in the 1980s. Harrop 42; Zilverdistel 42.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
