GREGYNOG PRESS,
ROSSETTI (Christina) &
FISHER (George) [Binder]
Poems
ONE OF THE FINEST GEORGE FISHER BINDINGS
Very good, the slightest of scuffs to upper cover near head of spine, diagonal scuff to lower cover, slight wear to extremities, ffep. and title with spot of fingersoiling to tail.
A particularly magnificent example of George Fisher’s special bindings for the Gregynog Press.
George Fisher had been recommended to the press by Douglas Cockerell in the summer of 1925 as a replacement for their previous binder John Mason, who had departed on rather acrimonious terms, declaring in his resignation letter that he doubted whether the conditions at Gregynog ‘would allow any skilled craftsman that state of mind that is necessary to creative work. He would, at any rate, need to have a very different temperament to mine’. Fisher initially studied under Cockerell and apprenticed at Rivière, but had for the last fifteen years lived and worked as a farmer in Hampshire. Despite, or perhaps because of this, his temperament clearly suited the conditions at Gregynog and he remained at the bindery until the closure of the press, creating some of the finest bindings of the period.
