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The Gregynog Press - A Paper read to the Double Crown Club on 7 April 1954
by Jones, Thomas
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press/Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1954. Book. Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Turquoise cloth with title printed on label on front cover. Condition: Good, with light browning to endpapers from dustjacket flaps. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Spare title label for front cover tipped in to the edge of the last page of text. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally lightly shelfworn with sunning to spine and dustjacket edges. Price-clipped. 40pp. 4 b/w illustrations. One of an edition of 750 copies. The history of the Gregynog Press had never been written before the Double Crown Club invited D.r Thomas Jones, then chairman of the press, to deliver an informal lecture on it. This book reprints the lecture as spoken, with illustrations from the original blocks, and with the addition of an appendix which gives a bibliographical description of the books printed and published at Gregynog..
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- Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006684
- Title
- The Gregynog Press - A Paper read to the Double Crown Club on 7 April 1954
- Author
- Jones, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press/Geoffrey Cumberlege
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- gregynog press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Press;
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