Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
Books and Prints
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GREGYNOG PRESS
FORTESCUE, J.W. The story of a red-deer. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1935. One of 250 copies, of which this is one of 15 specially bound, this copy number 7. Full reddish-brown oasis morocco, each cover with a broad diagonal band of fern-leaf tools against a background of parallel rules, all in gilt; signed on the rear bottom turn-in by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 9 3/4 inches (25 cm); binding 10 x 7 3/4 inches (25 x 20 cm), top edge gilt. 4 ff. including title-page, 125 pp. plus colophon leaf. With decorations by Dorothy Burroughes, printed in colors, at the head of each chapter. Somewhat foxed within, externally fresh.
Harrop 35; Zilverdistel 35.
Provenance: J.R. Abbey's copy, with his bookplate.
Sold for $5,938
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Includes Buyer's Premium
GREGYNOG PRESS
FORTESCUE, J.W. The story of a red-deer. Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1935. One of 250 copies, of which this is one of 15 specially bound, this copy number 7. Full reddish-brown oasis morocco, each cover with a broad diagonal band of fern-leaf tools against a background of parallel rules, all in gilt; signed on the rear bottom turn-in by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 9 3/4 inches (25 cm); binding 10 x 7 3/4 inches (25 x 20 cm), top edge gilt. 4 ff. including title-page, 125 pp. plus colophon leaf. With decorations by Dorothy Burroughes, printed in colors, at the head of each chapter. Somewhat foxed within, externally fresh.
Harrop 35; Zilverdistel 35.
Provenance: J.R. Abbey's copy, with his bookplate.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
