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Don Antonio De Guevara. The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life, written originally in Spanish by Don Antonio De Guevara, Put into English by H. Vaughan, Silurist, illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. The Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1938.

Price: US$192.40 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Small 8vo, 15 preliminary pages, 37 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, very good condition in paper covered boards and morocco spine and corner tips, paper title label on front board (browned), top and bottom of spine slightly rubbed, boards marked, end-papers, preliminary and concluding pages stained, text in fine, clean condition, number 362 of an edition of 400 copies, no wrapper.

Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom

GUEVARA Don Antonio De (H Vaughn - translator) (Gregynog). The Praise and Happinesse of the countrie-Life (Gregynog). Gregynog Press, Newtown, 1938.

Price: US$288.60 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG+, Ltd ed, 7 illustrations, 1938. In red half leather, over olive green paper covers (a couple of small marks), with wood engraved title label on upper cover printed in red and black. Red oasis spine with gilt titling and blind floral fillet border, red tips. DW with circular image and title to top cover, titles in red to spine, faded & with some offsetting, 2 inch tear at spine, Internally, half title, [4], (v-xv), [1], 37 pp, [1], [1] limitation leaf, 7 illustrations (wood engraved head and tail pieces by Reynolds Stone), couple of small spots to front blanks, signed on paste down of lower cover Gregynog Press Bindery. Reprinted from the edition of 1651. Colophon states 400 copies printed by James Wardrop at the Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, November, 1938. (Harrop 39/p206). (120*182 mm).

Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom

De Guevara, Don Antonio (put into English by H.Vaughan. The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie Life. At the Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales, 1938.

Price: US$288.60 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Sage green paper-covered boards with title in gilt on scarlet red leather spine, and scarlet red leather to tips of the cover corners. Paper label with title within vignette on front cover. Condition: Very good. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. Some foxing to front endpapers. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light browning as well as sunning to spine and immediate surrounding area. Light diagonal crease to centre of front cover of jacket. 37pp. One of a limited edition of 400 copies, this is being no.352. Printed by James Wardrop at the Gregynog Press in Newtown, Montgomeryshire in 1938. This book was reprinted from the edition of 1651 with an introduction by Henry Thomas and seven wood engravings by Reynolds Stone (1909-1979). A beautiful little book.

Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom

Guevara, Don Antonio De. The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life. Gregynog Press, Newtown, 1938.

Price: US$320.67 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardback with dust-wrapper. Half-calf with paper covered boards. 18 x 12cm. xv, [1], 37pp, [1]. 7 wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Number 231 of 400 copies. D/w rather discoloured. Ownership details on the free front end-paper. Some foxing, moderate to initial blank leaves, elsewhere text generally clean.

Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom

GUEVARA DON ANTONIO DE. IN PRAISE OF HAPPINESSE OF THE COUNTRIE-LIFE (LIMITED EDITION). NEWTON THE GREGYNOG PRESS, 1938.

Price: US$320.67 + shipping

Description: REPRINTED FROM THE EDITION OF 1651 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY THOMAS AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY REYNOLDS STONE. PUT INTO ENGLISH BY H VAUGHAN, SILURIST. LIMITED TO 400 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 340. BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER GREEN BOARDS. A VERY GOOD COPY

Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom

Guevara, Don Antonio de. The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life. Written originally in Spanish by Don Antonio de Guevara. Put into English by H. Vaughan, Silurist. Gregynog Press, Newtown, 1938.

Price: US$345.00 + shipping

Description: Small octavo. xv, 37pp. One of 400 copies. With an introduction by Henry Thomas and seven wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A comfortable treatise on the pleasures of pastoralism. Lacks original dust wrapper, traces of edgewear, and faint foxing to a few leaves, else near fine in half-leather and green paper over boards, with wood engraved title-label on front cover, gilt title on spine. Bookplate. (Harrop 39).

Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

GUEVARA Don Antonio De (H Vaughn - translator) (Gregynog). The Praise and Happinesse of the countrie-Life (Gregynog). Gregynog Press, Newtown, 1938.

Price: US$429.70 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near Fine, Custom Bound by Delrue, 7 illustrations, 1938. In full red calf, decorative blind edges tooling. Spine, gilt tooling to black calf strip. Internally, brown endpapers, book binder name to fpd (Delrue), Internally, half title, [4], (v-xv), [1], 37 pp, [1], [1] limitation leaf, 7 illustrations (wood engraved head and tail pieces by Reynolds Stone). Reprinted from the edition of 1651. An edition limited to 400 numbered copies of which this is an un-numbered set. Printed by James Wardrop at the Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, November, 1938. (Harrop 39). (117*180 mm).

Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom

Gregynog Press. Guevara (Don Antonio de) Put into English by H. Vaughan, Silurist. Reprinted from the edition of 1651, with an introduction by Henry Thomas. The Praise and Happiness of the Countrie-Life. , 1938.

Price: US$3367.02 + shipping

Description: Seven wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone One of 400 numbered copies Printed in Bell on Arnold & Foster handmade Spine just a touch sunned, otherwise a very nice copy indeed. The J.R. Abbey copy with his bookplate and inscription on rear pastedown Original special binding by George Fisher, orange oasis panelled in blind with central arabesque to sides, blind-stamped inner dentelles, top edge gilt

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom