Gregynog press (108 Ergebnisse)

First edition. xv + 266 pp w/index. Near fine in decorated full brown cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.

FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.xvi,266; many illustrations, facsimiles & plates; very good in original buckram. An excellent study & thorough bibliography of the Press including a handlist of ephemera & detailed descriptions of bindings. Private Press Bibliography.

Limited to 400 numbered copies; pp.(16); double-page monochrome illustration; fine in printed wrappers. No.4 of the 'Places - Y Man a'r Lle' series. Gregynog compliments slip 'sent on the instructions of Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd', laid in. Welsh scholar Professor Gruffydd edited several Welsh-language volumes for the Press. Welsh Printing Illustrated Private Press.…

Exhibition Publication, stiff cream wrappers pictorially printed in red. Sq.8vo, c.pp36 in Welsh & English, excellent. With numerous illustrations throughout. Published on the occasion of the Gregynog Press Exhibition 1976. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Baskerville type on double stone cover paper and Abbey Mills paper. Text printed in black and red. A fine copy. (Harrop E61).

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Perpetua type on brown cover paper and Abbey Mills paper. Text printed in black and red. A fine copy. (Harrop E109).

Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Handset and printed in Baskerville on Japon vellum. Illustrated with 3 wood engravings by R.A. Maynard and with a facsimile of a school essay on eight unnumbered pages. Blue-grey Ingres paper boards, decorated with the letters ELJ interlaced. Some wear to extremies. A good copy. Pastedown. A good copy. (Harrop 43).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Colour frontispiece, illustrations in text. Marron buckram, gilt, dust-jacket. A near fine copy. A history of the Gregynog estate.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, printed on the occasion of a 1976 Welsh Arts Council Gregynog Press exhibition. Landscape 8vo. 38pp. Card wrappers, lightly tanned and spotted. Text in English and Welsh. A very good copy. Uncommon. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced.].…

Newtown, 1990. 74 pp. Ills. Softcover. Limited edition of 900 numbered copies [No. 323].

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Perpetua type on light brown cover paper and Abbey Mills paper. Text printed in black and red. Ownership signature of the organist Charles Clements and with his pencil annotations. A very good copy. (Harrop E105).

Zustand: Fine. - Quarto, brown cloth titled in gilt on spine. 266 pp. with profuse illustrations. Near fine. First edition of 2,500 copies.

Zustand: Good. 18mo. French-Folded Sheet, Very Good, minor shelf wear. Includes "Christ's Nativity," from Poems by Henry Vaughan. Illustration by Bray from a 1928 Gregynog Press publication. Signed dedication to Wesley from Stephen Gale Herrick, who donated Gregynog Press materials to Gleeson and USF. Scarce, no copies on OCLC.…

Prospectus for the Gregynog Press, with a brief history of the press to the front page. 15.5 x 22 cms, 4 pp folded, printed in black. Slight crease, several faint ticks beside a number of titles.

One page, 4to, dulled and stained, edges chipped in places, fold marks, text clear and complete. See Image. Text: "[.] Our 'Lord Herbert of Cherbury' was issued in a limited edition of 300 copies at 4 guineas, and went out of print immediately after publication. I think however that you may still be able to obtain a copy through Mr. [J.] Kyrle Fletcher [added in Maynard's hand "of Newport Mon"] | We have a copy of Herbert's 'Life of King Henry VIII' which has not, to my knowledge, been reprinted since the 1649 edition, which you have. It is a fairly rare book, but is not unfortunately very valuable.".…

Pinner, Private Libraries Association, 1980, XV,(1),266 pag., 12 photogr. plates (incl. portraits), 39 illustrations, 29 facs. printer's devices, original gilt and blindstamped cloth, quarto (28 x19,2 cm.). = Contains a bibliography and index.

Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 207 of 275 (300) copies printed in Poliphilus and Blado Italic on Batchelor handmade paper. Wood-engraved shield hand-coloured in blue, grey and red, 9 wood engravings by H.W.Bray and a large opening wood-engraved initial in red. Brown buckram with bevelled edges, Herbert arms blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt spine titling, t.e.g.,others uncut. Unsightly dark stain on the upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. (Harrop 10).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies printed on handmade paper (this being #440). Royal 8vo. 169pp. Blue buckram lettered in gold at the spine. Fore- and bottom edge untrimmed. With nine engraved head and tail pieces. Buckram somewhat faded at the backstrip, intruding just a little to upper and lower boards, and endpapers browned. A small circular area of residue to the front free endpaper, from a now absent sticker, alongside a neatly inked contemporary former owner name and date. A nice, crisp copy of this early Gregynog production. Jones [4].…

Limited edition of 450 copies, this being number 161. 4 full page engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Pages printed in red and black and still unopened. Beige buckram spine, mottled red bds. Spine partially faded o/w a fine copy.

Limited edition of 450 copies, this being No. 385. Khaki buckram backstrip with gilt to spine and upper, mottled reddish paper-covered boards, bevelled edges. 102pp. 4 ills. by Hughes-Stanton. Text printed in black and tan. Extremties sl. rubbed. VG.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. No. 85 of 310 half black buckram with marbled paper boards, Edward Hutchison bookplate to pastedown. A very clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Special Edition. Number 51 of 150 (175) copies printed in Baskerville on Batchelor hand-made paper. Title-page device in red. Dark blue buckram with bevelled edges, titled in gilt on the spine and upper board. A very good crisp copy. (Harrop 9).

No.214 of 225 copies printed in red & black Perpetua on Unbleached Arnold hand-made paper; pp.xiv,149 + colophon; slight bump at one corner but a very good copy in original green oasis morocco-backed patterned paper boards, morocco corner tips, lettered & tooled in gold with quadruple-rule design in art deco style, top edge gilt, others uncut; 4pp. prospectus laid in. The first book produced under the direction of James Wardrop, the particularly successful binding designed by his wife Evelyn. Harrop 36 & E186. Welsh Printing Binding Private Press.…

No. 284 of 310 copies. Portrait frontispiece wood by R.A. Maynard after Augustus John. Printed in Baskervile type on Japanese vellum in with yellow title vignette and borders on every page. 8vo., original black buckram and marbled paper covered boards, largely unopened. With some mild rubbing to cloth, otherwise very good. Simply but beautifully printed edition of the work of the Welsh poet W.H. Davies, known as the 'tramp poet'. Rather engagingly, Davies writes a foreword which declares that most of the poems were written from his own life experience: "'The Sleepers' was written after a night out on the London Embankment, when I was penniless.It will be seen from reading some of these poems that I have known the discomforts of a homeless life.however, even my experience of hunger has not left me bitter: for I believe my mind became stronger and better fed because of an occasional spell of fasting.Gluttony has starved more brains than Hunger.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Special Edition. Number 260 of 260 (285) sets printed in Baskerville on Japanese vellum. Illustrated with, respectively, 16 and 11 wood engraved headpieces by H.W. Bray adapted from contemporary prints. Full grey buckram with bevelled edges and gilt spine titling. Spines a little darkened and lacking slipcase, otherwise a very good to fine set. (Harrop 17). …

FIRST EDITION limited to 200 numbered copies (+ 15 specials); folio, pp.100 + colophon; 19 full-page colour plates (one folding); new in tan calf-backed decorated boards using a black & gold on blue hand-printed patterned paper from the archive of Loyd Haberly, sometime Controller of the Gregynog Press. Bindings Private Press.…

One of 250 copies. 11 illustrations by Dorothy Burroughes printed in colour at the head of each chapter, text printed in red and black. Sm. folio, original reddish brown cloth. Spine rubbed and a little crinkled, few small marks to covers but a pretty good copy. Fortescue's book was a very interesting choice of text. It was written for the author's 9 year old nephew and tells the story of a Red Deer on Exmoor from the aniimal's point of view. The precursor to another famous Exmoor animal book, Williamson's Tarka the Otter. Burroughes spent some time in Exmoor researching the background to her illustrations.…

No.91 of 300 copies; folio, pp.xv(3)94 + colophon; 9 wood-engravings by Horace Bray, hand-coloured shield on title, large wood-engraved initials in red; printed in Poliphilus & Blado on Batchelor's hand-made paper; a very good copy of the first edition in folio from the Press; original brown buckram, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, sides differentially faded and slightly cockled; 4pp. prospectus for Joinville's St Louis, laid in. 'It would be difficult to find pages where Poliophilus & Blado are shown to better advantage, and the large initial openings.are a tour de force.' Harrop 10; p.48. Private Press.…

Newtown]: The Gregynog Press, 1930. Limited to 250 copies, of which this is number 66. This copy with extra 5 proof queries, 8 pp. each. Full red cloth, pictorially gilt-stamped with a deer on front cover, gilt-stamped spine. Light rubbing to spine. Else, fine. HBS 66741. $350. GREGYNOG PRESS (illustrator).…

First Edition. Limited Edition of 300 copies of which this is 210. 4to. Brown buckram, gilt armorial shield to upper board. 93pp. Illustrated with some text in red and blue. Some wear to lower edge, tail of spine frayed with sl. loss with indentation to lower margin. Bookplate to front pastedown. Owner dated inscription to front free endpaper. Very occasional light foxing o/w a very handsome volume. VG+ in slipcase. …