Mabinogion. A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest... with illustrations by Dorothea Braby.

(Golden Cockerel Press.) JONES (Gwyn and Thomas, translators)

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A magnificent production, immediately hailed by Welsh scholars, book design critics and the general reading public alike as a great success, Braby's intricate, mysterious illustrations, re-produced from photographic blocks made from the original scraper-board designs, perfectly mirroring the tone of the text. [With:] From Reviews of two recent Golden Cockerel Press books: The Mabinogion; Endymion, [1949], pp. [ii], broadsheet with John Buckland-Wright cockerel engraving, "'Merely to look at this sumptuous book, outside or within, in these exigent times brings the delightful surprise that the sudden blossoming of a rosebush would give in the chilling days of December... flowers of refinement and enchantment amidst the nettles of barbarism.' The Times Literary Supplement"

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50/75 COPIES (from an overall edition of 550) specially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, and signed by the artist and translators, printed on mould-made paper by The Chiswick Press, title printed in orange and black, 20 full-page scraper-board engravings by Dorothea Braby, initial leaves with two tiny faint spots, pp.[i], 266, [i], folio, original orange Cape morocco, signed S&S on upper board lower turn-in, boards with repeated elaborate gilt-blocked design by Braby, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and gilt cockerel insignia, boards with a few faint marks, top edge gilt, untrimmed fore-edge with a couple of spots, blue buckram slipcase, very good

Bibliography: (Cockalorum 176; Cock-a-Hoop LXXXII)

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