Cerddi. Edited and with an Introduction by Sir Thomas Parry. ×

PARRY (Robert Williams) & GWASG GREGYNOG

Publication Date: 1980

About this Item

One of 15 numbered and specially bound copies, with a further two unnumbered copies in the special binding, from a total edition of 230 copies. 6 full-page wood engravings by Peter Reddick, printed calligraphic title page, poem titles and pressmark after Ieuan Rees in brown and green. 4to., 19 x 29.5cm, 136pp. Binding designed by Joan Rix Tebbutt and bound by Sydney Cockerell in full green goatskin with a flower pattern blocked in black and tooled with thirty gilt circles on upper cover, green leather spine label lettered in gilt, green and white silk end bands, hand-made paper doublures and endpapers, turn-ins ruled in black with gilt dot at each outer corner, signed at foot of lower doublure with the monogram of Elizabeth and Sydney Cockerell and Joan Tebbutt, dated 1980, with original cloth drop-back box. Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog. Spine of box slightly faded and some light soiling, binding fine as is the book, aside from some light spots of finger soiling to verso of title page.  The second of the special bindings issued by the reformed Gwasg Gregynog. Sydney Cockerell had served a brief period at the Gregynog Press bindery in 1925, immediately preceding the arrival of Douglas Cockerell's former student, George Fisher; Sydney went on to become a partner in his father's business, renamed to 'Douglas Cockerel & Son', and continued the firm's reputation as one of the foremost binderies of its time. It was Sydney Cockerell's own student, James Brockman, who took charge of the Gwasg Gregynog bindery from 1982. Joan Rix Tebbutt, a graduate of Lettering and Book Design at the Glasgow School of Art, was one of the most distinctive mid-century designers and calligraphers 'and her skills melded admirably with those of Sandy [Sydney] Cockerell in the long series of bindings on which they collaborated' (Anthony Dowd, The Special Bindings of Gwasg Gregynog). .

Seller Inventory # 240593

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cerddi. Edited and with an Introduction by Sir Thomas Parry. ×
• Publication Date: 1980
• Binding: Hardcover