THE MOST CONSPICUOUSLY DECORATIVE VOLUME OF THAT KIND
The Fables of Esope
Gregynog Press, 1931.
The Gregynog Aesop. Folio. Number 234 of 250 copies. Bound at Gregynog in Welsh natural sheepskin with black lettering on the spine and printed on Barcham Green hand made paper in Bembo type. Housed in the publisher's brown card slipcase. Thirty-seven illustrations engraved on wood by Agnes Miller Parker. A very near fine copy, with just trifling wear to the head of the spine and a couple of finger marks to the spine, but internally perfect and the fragile sheep binding in exceptionally nice condition.
An exceptionally nice example of one of the finest books produced by one of the finest presses of the Private Press movement.
The illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker are considered by Colin Franklin to rank this book as "the most conspicuously decorative volume of that kind", the binding is smooth, appropriately naturalistic and exceptionally well preserved, and the type, hand-set by Richard Jones, is generous and exacting.
Writing in his The Private Presses, Colin Franklin concluded that "the entire work of Gregynog, printing and binding, produced a better thing that anyone else had attempted".
Jones (pp. 30-1).
Stock ID: 46823
£9,500.00
