Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(GREGYNOG PRESS.) The Life of Saint David. Text printed in blue and black in Poliphilus type on Batchelor hand-made paper, red initials and paragraph marks, 25 hand-colored wood-engraved illustrations by Horace Walter Bray, with hand-drawn paragraph marks in red. Thin 8vo, gilt-lettered vellum; title-page very lightly foxed. Newtown, 1927

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number 152 of 175 copies. The first book of the press to be printed on dampened paper and the coloring was done by the women who worked at the Gregynog Bindery, under the direction of Horace Bray. Considered to be among the finest books of the Press--Harrop 7; Zilverdistel 7.