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Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 34x23cm, 93pp. With nine wood engravings by Horace Bray. Copy 207/250 (275) bound in full brown buckram with arms blocked in gilt to upper board, gilt title to backstrip. Arguably something of a hidden gem amongst those Gregynog books outside the ranks of the magnum opi. It stands out because of its unexpected scale - the first but least well-known Gregynog folio - and the wood engravings which are extraordinary in their diversity and detail, 'quite unlike any of [Bray's] previous work' (Harrop). The first in particular, a copy of a miniature by Isaac Oliver, has similar dense background detail and texture to that of Stephan Mrozeweski of whose work Bray must surely have been aware (although his abortive collaboration with Gregynog on Parsifal was not until eight years later). They provide further proof that the name of Bray, if not Maynard, deserves to be less fully eclipsed by his famous successors than it has been. The typography, and the large red initials for chapter openings, are also a distinct step up in achievement from the press's previous books. As John Hugh Jones recalled (De Zilverdistel catalogue) ‘ the book designer who fails to add richness and dignity to the folio page is missing a great opportunity’. Good (6cm stain to upper board, plus a little bubbling and some lighter marks as usual, the interior completely bright and clean with no foxing). Harrop 10
Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Folio; in brown buckram with the Herbert arms blocked in gilt; [vi], vii-xv, [3] 94 pages, followed by the colophon; with nine wood engravings; with wood engraved shield on the title page, hand colored in blue, red and gray, and a large initial in red; printed in black and red; there is some trivial spotting to the upper board; there are no marks of any kind in the book, which it tight and square; the edition is limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is No. 130. (Harrop 10). Near Fine binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$301.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Folio. Brown buckram gilt lettered on spine with gilt armorial shield on front panel. Limited edition, number 234 of 300 copies only. Printed on hand made paper with 9 woodcuts by Bray. Some bubbling to buckram but o/w a clean fresh copy. Lord Herbert was the brother of the English Poet George Herbert.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$320.00 + shipping
Description: 94 pages. 34 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 192 of 350, wood-engravings designed and cut by Horace Walter Bray type, and printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard. Color lithograph escutcheon title page. The life of a Jacobean man of fashion, who may be called the last of the knights errant and the first of the deists. Fresh, clean copy, wide text margins, red initial letters, nicks to backstrip extremities. Orig. brown cloth, front cover escutcheon decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Number 140 of 275 (300) copies printed in Poliphilus and Blado Italic on Batchelor handmade paper. Wood-engraved shield hand-coloured in blue, grey and red, 9 wood engravings by H.W.Bray and a large opening wood-engraved initial in red. Brown buckram with bevelled edges, Herbert arms blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt spine titling, t.e.g.,others uncut. A near fine copy (Harrop 10)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Limited Edition of 300 copies of which this is 210. 4to. Brown buckram, gilt armorial shield to upper board. 93pp. Illustrated with some text in red and blue. Some wear to lower edge, tail of spine frayed with sl. loss with indentation to lower margin. Bookplate to front pastedown. Owner dated inscription to front free endpaper. Very occasional light foxing o/w a very handsome volume. VG+ in slipcase.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Over-sized hardback book (no dust jacket) titled THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY with introduction by C.H.Herford. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies (#294)in 1928 by The Gregynog Press. Boards show moderate scuffing/rubbing - fraying at ends of spine - bookplate inside front board. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-13A-bottom) rareviewbooks Language: eng
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Gregynog Press. The autobiography of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Gregynog Press, 1928.
Price: US$378.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brown buckram, gilt. Near fine. One of 300 copies, this marked "out of series". The Press's own copy with the small space for the number cut out. Wood engravings by Horace Walter Bray.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom