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(Gwasg Gregynog); John Morris-Jones, Translator. PENILLION OMAR KHAYYAM. Gwasg Y Gregynog, (Newtown, Wales), 1928.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Half yellow buckram gilt and creme buckram sides, large 8vo., xvi, 30 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Robert Maynard. This Rubaiyat, translated from Persian into Welsh, faced many delays and difficulties in its production, extensively laid out in a chapter of its own in Dorothy Harrop's "History of the Gregynog Press". A very good copy with some moderate soiling and wear to the covers, in archival mylar.

Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.

MAYNARD, Robert Ashwin; MORRIS-JONES, John. PENILLION OMAR KHAYYAM Wedieu cyfieithu o'r Berseg i'r Gymraeg. Newtown Gwasg Y Gregynnog The Gregynog Press, 1928.

Price: US$352.74 + shipping

Description: First Gregynog edition. Number 230 of 310 copies. Large 8vo. Publisher's original half yellow buckram over cream cloth, lettered gilt to spine. Text printed in blue and black. A very good copy indeed, a little toned of spine. Seven wood engravings by Robert Ashwin Maynard, three wood-engraved printer's devices. A finely printed and illustrated Rubaiyat in Welsh translation. Morris-Jones's translation of the Rubaiyat was the first into Welsh, and was originally published in 1907 without illustration. This is the translation's second appearance in book form, and the first to be furnished with illustrations. Potter 523.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom

John Morris Jones; Omar Khayyam. Penillion Omar Khayyam Wedi eu cyfieithu o'r Berseg i'r Gymraeg gan John Morris Jones [The Rubaiyat]. Gwasg Gregynnog [Gregynog], Newtown, Wales, 1928.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: not in dt #75/310. Title and text printed in blue and black,10 wood-engravings by R.A. Maynard [Robert Ashwin], handlaid paper, plain endpapers, in a rather humble publisher's buckram white/yellow cloth binding with spine title faded.

Seller: Little Sages Books, ABAA/ILAB, Longmont, CO, U.S.A.