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Pp. [viii]+102+[2](colophon, blank), wood engraved title page vignette and pictorial head & tailpieces [by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray], ornamental device at colophon printed in turquoise; cr. 4to; blue buckram over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, cloth rubbed and slightly flecked, edges lightly faded, bottom fore-corners slightly bruised, the spine faded to grey and lightly bruised at extremities; uncut; free endpapers slightly offset, a little light foxing; The Gregynog Press, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1926. One of 317 numbered copies thus bound (total edition 350). Harrop 5; Eckert, pp. 253/254. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown. Previously from the library of Claude Prance, with both his 2 small book labels on the upper pastedown and his pencilled signature and price notes on the upper free endpaper. Also on the upper pastedown is a pictorial printed invitation to an exhibition of wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton (including those engraved for the Gregynog Press edition of The Revelation of Saint John) at the Zwemmer Gallery on April 5, 1933. Item #162981
Price: $350.00