11th Sep, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 17
 

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Parker, Agnes Miller Wood Engravings I and II: from ''The Fables of Esope'' & ''XXI Welsh Gypsy...

Parker, Agnes Miller
Wood Engravings I and II: from "The Fables of Esope" & "XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales". Newtown Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 1996-7. Folio (2 vols). Cloth-backed, patterned-paper covered boards, in slipcases; 45 wood engravings on and-made Japanese Gampi vellum paper. Limited ed, both no. 87 of 185.
The paper used in the binding was also designed by Agnes Miller Parker, and the wood engravings were printed by hand from her original blocks. The Gregynog edition of Aesop's Fables (using Caxton's text and spelling of Esope in the title) was published in 1931, and John Sampson's XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk Tales followed two years later.

Sold for £750
Estimated at £250 - £350


 

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