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HUGHES, John Ceiriog (1832-1887). Caneuon Ceiriog detholiad [Songs of Ceiriog, a Selection]. Edited by John Lloyd Jones. Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1925.
4° (258 x 198mm). Title and text printed in red and black. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 30 illustrations as head- and tailpieces by and after Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray, press device [Harrop 'Devices' 13] on title. (Occasional very light spotting or marking, very light offsetting from frontispiece onto title.) Original burgundy morocco gilt [designed by Maynard and executed by George Fisher, Gregynog Press Bindery], boards with borders of thin gilt rules broken by annular tools within broad gilt rules, upper board with gilt-ruled panel over rectilinear cornerpieces with foliate sprays, annular tools at the intersections, gilt-ruled board edges and turn-ins, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in one, top edge gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, a few tiny scuff marks, light adhesive marks on rear endpapers).
LIMITED TO 400 COPIES, THIS NO. 18 OF 30 SPECIALLY-BOUND COPIES. A VARIANT BINDING. The 30 specially-bound copies were bound to the same design in either red or blue morocco, but the present copy varies from the standard styles in three points: the design on the upper board is not repeated on the lower; the binding is not signed on the lower rear turn-in; the morocco is a darker shade than the red normally employed. Of the 30 specially-bound copies, 4 are held by institutions (the British Library, University of London Library, University of Wales (Gregynog Hall set), and the National Library of Wales, cf. De Zilverdistel p. 614-615). Harrop Gregynog 3; Ransom 'Gregynog' 3; Tomlinson 'Gregynog' 3; De Zilverdistel Margaret Sidney Davies Collection 3.
4° (258 x 198mm). Title and text printed in red and black. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 30 illustrations as head- and tailpieces by and after Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray, press device [Harrop 'Devices' 13] on title. (Occasional very light spotting or marking, very light offsetting from frontispiece onto title.) Original burgundy morocco gilt [designed by Maynard and executed by George Fisher, Gregynog Press Bindery], boards with borders of thin gilt rules broken by annular tools within broad gilt rules, upper board with gilt-ruled panel over rectilinear cornerpieces with foliate sprays, annular tools at the intersections, gilt-ruled board edges and turn-ins, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in one, top edge gilt (extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, a few tiny scuff marks, light adhesive marks on rear endpapers).
LIMITED TO 400 COPIES, THIS NO. 18 OF 30 SPECIALLY-BOUND COPIES. A VARIANT BINDING. The 30 specially-bound copies were bound to the same design in either red or blue morocco, but the present copy varies from the standard styles in three points: the design on the upper board is not repeated on the lower; the binding is not signed on the lower rear turn-in; the morocco is a darker shade than the red normally employed. Of the 30 specially-bound copies, 4 are held by institutions (the British Library, University of London Library, University of Wales (Gregynog Hall set), and the National Library of Wales, cf. De Zilverdistel p. 614-615). Harrop Gregynog 3; Ransom 'Gregynog' 3; Tomlinson 'Gregynog' 3; De Zilverdistel Margaret Sidney Davies Collection 3.
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