ANNE BOLEYN AND OTHER POEMS.
Description: 4to (some min. browning towards the margins). - Edition limited to 300 copies (n. 177) on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Printed in red, black and green in Bembo type and illustrated with decorative initials in green and red drawn by Graily Hewitt. Dedicated to the memory of Sir Emery Walker, and the first book issued by the press, after Haberly took over the management. Haberly's different woodcut printer's devices in green on title and colophon. "The book has a precious air about it and an amateurish one at that" (Harrop). - Ref. Harrop, D.A., A history of the Gregynog Press, p. 137.
Condition: Publ. full brown morocco, Boleyn's falcon badge in gilt on front cover, gilt titled flat spine, top edge gilt. Uncut, fine copy. Artist Name: HABERLY, Loyd Circa: 1934
View it on
Sale price
Estimate
Reserve
Time, Location
Auction House
Description: 4to (some min. browning towards the margins). - Edition limited to 300 copies (n. 177) on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Printed in red, black and green in Bembo type and illustrated with decorative initials in green and red drawn by Graily Hewitt. Dedicated to the memory of Sir Emery Walker, and the first book issued by the press, after Haberly took over the management. Haberly's different woodcut printer's devices in green on title and colophon. "The book has a precious air about it and an amateurish one at that" (Harrop). - Ref. Harrop, D.A., A history of the Gregynog Press, p. 137.
Condition: Publ. full brown morocco, Boleyn's falcon badge in gilt on front cover, gilt titled flat spine, top edge gilt. Uncut, fine copy. Artist Name: HABERLY, Loyd Circa: 1934