BLUNT (Lady Anne), [BLUNT (Wilfred Scawen)]. & GREGYNOG PRESS .

The Celebrated Romance of Stealing of the Mare. Translated from the original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt and Done into Verse by Wilfred Scawen Blunt.

Translated from Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt, set in verse by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. One of 275 numbered copies. Illustrations and initials designed and engraved by Robert Ashwin Maynard, hand coloured at Press. Green and gilt press device on title. Fol., ix, 73pp., original quarter calf backed in patterned paper, spine lettered in gilt, printed in black on Japanese vellum. In brown slip case. Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Gregynog Press, 1930.

£800.00

Spine darkened, very slight foxing to decorated paper boards, but still a handsome copy.

Ownership signature of T. Gwynn Jones on ffe., the Welsh poet, professor, and translator whose important scholarship on Welsh literature and folklore had a significant influence on Robert Graves; his Detholiad o Ganiadau was published by the Gregynog Press in 1926.

The magnificent illuminated initials vary in colour and design. One of the most beautiful Gregynog Books.

Stock No.
241890