Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
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GREGYNOG PRESS
DE GUEVARA, DON ANTONIO. The praise and happinesse of the countrie-life. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1938. One of 400 copies, of which this is one of 20 specially bound, this copy number 12. Original orange oasis, upper and lower covers blocked in blind with an oriental intaglio stamp, within a double frame in blind; signed on the bottom rear turn-in by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 7 inches (18 cm); binding 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (18 x 13 cm), top edge gilt. xv pp. including half-title and title, 37 pp., plus colophon leaf. Illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.
Translated by Henry Vaughan. Harrop 39; Zilverdistel 39.
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GREGYNOG PRESS
DE GUEVARA, DON ANTONIO. The praise and happinesse of the countrie-life. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1938. One of 400 copies, of which this is one of 20 specially bound, this copy number 12. Original orange oasis, upper and lower covers blocked in blind with an oriental intaglio stamp, within a double frame in blind; signed on the bottom rear turn-in by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 7 inches (18 cm); binding 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (18 x 13 cm), top edge gilt. xv pp. including half-title and title, 37 pp., plus colophon leaf. Illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.
Translated by Henry Vaughan. Harrop 39; Zilverdistel 39.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
