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GREGYNOG PRESS
HERBERT OF CHERBURY, EDWARD, LORD. The autobiography of... Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1928. One of 300 copies, of which this is one of 25 specially bound by George Fisher, this copy number 9. Full brown levant morocco, covers plain except for the gilt outlined coat of arms of Cherbury on the front cover, onlaid in blue and red morocco, with three lions rampant, tooled in palladium; signed on the rear bottom turn-in by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 13 3/8 inches (34 cm); binding 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (35 x 25 cm), top edge gilt. xvii pp. including title-page, 94 pp., colophon leaf. Illustrated with 10 wood-engravings by Horace Walter Bray. Housed in a modern clamshell case.
Introduction by C.H. Herford. Harrop 10; Zilverdistel 10.
Sold for $1,875
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800
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GREGYNOG PRESS
HERBERT OF CHERBURY, EDWARD, LORD. The autobiography of... Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1928. One of 300 copies, of which this is one of 25 specially bound by George Fisher, this copy number 9. Full brown levant morocco, covers plain except for the gilt outlined coat of arms of Cherbury on the front cover, onlaid in blue and red morocco, with three lions rampant, tooled in palladium; signed on the rear bottom turn-in by George Fisher at the Gregynog Press Bindery. 13 3/8 inches (34 cm); binding 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (35 x 25 cm), top edge gilt. xvii pp. including title-page, 94 pp., colophon leaf. Illustrated with 10 wood-engravings by Horace Walter Bray. Housed in a modern clamshell case.
Introduction by C.H. Herford. Harrop 10; Zilverdistel 10.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
