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168.GWASG GREGYNOG. ESCHENBACH, Wolfram Von. The Romance of Parzival and the Holy Grail. Newton. Gwasg Gregynog. 1990.
£350
Folio, original red morocco backed patterned paper covered boards. With 12 full-page wood engravings by Stefan Mrozewski. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 210 numbered copies, this one of 195 in quarter binding. With prospectus loosely inserted.
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169. GWASG GREGYNOG. JONES, Glyn & MORGAN, T.J. The Story of Heledd. Edited by Jenny Rowland with a Modernized Welsh version of the original text. Engravings by Harry Brockway. Newton. Gwasg Gregynog. 1994.
£98
Folio, original black cloth backed decorated paper covered boards, lettered in white on the spine. With engravings by Harry Brockway printed from the original blocks. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 400 copies.
170. GWASG GREGYNOG. PARKER, Agnes Miller. Wood Engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales. John Sampson and the Gypsies of Wales, by Ian Rogerson. Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog. 1997.
£298
Folio. Original quarter reddish-brown cloth, patterned board sides, spine lettered in black, bottom and fore-edges untrimmed; 17 wood-engravings printed on Japanese vellum; a fine copy in matching slipcase.
First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies.
171. HASLEWOOD BOOKS. TAYLOR, John. A Dog of War. Fredrick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, 1a Kensington Place, London, W8, 1927
£98 171 172
8vo., original orange cloth backed boards; illustrated with five hand- coloured engravings on wood by Hester Sainsbury; slight marking to boards, offsetting to endpapers, nonetheless a very good copy.
Limited edition of John Taylor’s poem of 1628, set up on a linotype machine by The Morning Post on all-rag paper number 144/375, with a paper label tipped in naming the publishers as Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. One of the Haslewood Books series.
172. HASSALL, Joan (Art editor and Contributor). The Masque Library. The Curtain Press. 1950
£148
Crown 8vo. Original cloth and illustrated dust-jacket; many coloured and other illustrations, including decorations by Rex Whistler and Joan Hassall; a very nice copy.
Numbers 1-9 of The Masque, originally published separately between 1946-1949, here issued together in a single volume. Includes a three-part article (spread over three issues) on the designs for the theatre by Rex Whistler, written by Cecil Beaton, James Laver and Laurence Whistler respectively.
Joan Hassall was the art editor of issues 6 to 9, and contributed illustrations to issues 5, 6, 8 & 9. This copy has an autograph postcard signed by Hassall to Bevis Hillier tipped in.
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