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Auction #123 begins on 15 May 2025

[Gwyn (Jones) & Jones (Thomas) Translators]

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: MABINOGION

A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones. With illustrations by Dorothea Brady

Published: Golden Cockerel Press, 1848

Reserve: $100

Approximately:

Estimate: $150/175

Bidding opens: 15 May 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 22 May 16:30 GMT

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Wood-engraved frontispiece, pictorial title page printed in orange and black, map and full-page illustrations by Dorothea Braby, bound in half morocco with cream buckram cloth sides by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt decorated on the upper cover with a Celtic device, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, the leather is slightly rubbed at the corners and the top and bottom of the spine, a very good copy.

Colophon reads: Designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Caslon's Old Face type on mould-made paper, and finished on the Nineteenth day of February, 1948. Composition and presswork under the supervision of F.J. Newberry at the Chiswick Press. Compositors: A.G. Douglas and C.H. Rae. Pressman: J. Bierman.

The Edition limited to 550 numbered copies of which copies numbered 1-75 are specially bound.

Number: 291

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: Small folio (355 x 220 mm)


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