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Agnes Miller Parker: Wood Engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-tales.
by GWASG GREGYNOG. MILLER PARKER, Agnes. ROGERSON, Ian
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog, 1997. No. 177 of 185 ordinary copies (there were 15 specials). 17 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker printed from the original blocks onto Japanese Gampi Vellum paper. Printed in Monotype Bembo on Zerkall mould-made paper. Folio, original red cloth backed patterned paper covered boards by Agnes Miller Parker, housed in the cloth edges patterned paper covered slipcase, spine lettered in black. An extraordinarily good copy with only a few dust marks to the very bottom of the slipcase.||A superb reprinting of the wood engravings executed by Miller Parker for the Gregynog XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales of 1933 which was printed in only 250 copies.
John Sampson was an Irish linguist and scholar, best known for The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales (1926) and for his examination of Welsh Romani folk stories. This reprint includes 4 essays on Sampson’s work, the Gregynog printing of it and how the book was put together.| A rich printing from Agnes Miller Parker’s original blocks on Japanese vellum
John Sampson was an Irish linguist and scholar, best known for The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales (1926) and for his examination of Welsh Romani folk stories. This reprint includes 4 essays on Sampson’s work, the Gregynog printing of it and how the book was put together.| A rich printing from Agnes Miller Parker’s original blocks on Japanese vellum
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11963
- Title
- Agnes Miller Parker: Wood Engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-tales.
- Author
- GWASG GREGYNOG. MILLER PARKER, Agnes. ROGERSON, Ian
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gwasg Gregynog
- Place of Publication
- Newtown
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Gregynog;Agnes Miller Parker;Fables;Aesop;Wood Engraving Book,Illustrated, Private Press
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