A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones
The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.
First edition, limited to 550 copies on mould-made paper of which this is number 282. Folio. Original publisher's half morocco over cream buckram by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lettered in gilt on the spine and with a celtic design in gilt on the upper cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Twenty engravings in wood and scraper board by Dorothea Braby. A fine copy, clean and bright. Bookplate to front pastedown.
Never can an illustrator have taken more trouble to achieve a perfect interpretation of the great literature of a nation in the terms of its own art. [Cockalorum]
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