Live auction - Lot 730

[Gregynog Press]

HABERLY, Loyd

Anne Boleyn and other poems.

Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1934

€ 200 / 300

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4to (some min. browning towards the margins).

Publ. brown morocco, Boleyn's falcon badge in gilt on front cover, gilt-titled flat spine, top edge gilt. Uncut, fine copy.

Edition limited to 300 copies (n. 177) on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Printed in red, black and green in Bembo type and ill. 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. - Not in Ransom, Tomkinson.
Prov. [Marianne Delvaulx].

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Lot 730

Anne Boleyn and other poems.

HABERLY, Loyd

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