From Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
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ONE OF 285 COPIES (from an edition of 300 copies) printed in black and red on Batchelor handmade paper, 24 wood-engravings by Loyd Haberly and John Beedham from original designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, the large initial letters designed by Graily Hewitt and printed in green, pp. [viii], 143, large 4to, original white pigskin, backstrip gilt lettered and the four flat raised bands outlined in gilt, the gilt circle at the centre of the front cover enclosing a complex butterfly and floral design, a couple of light handling marks to boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed, near fine. The engravings were selected by Loyd Haberly from a group of about seventy drawings executed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and originally intended to illuminate Morris's poem 'Cupid and Psyche'. Haberly redrew them and engraved five, John Beedham engraving the others. The book contains the first use of the Gregynog typeface, which met with mixed reactions; Newdigate praised the type and thought it magnificent, but his view appeared to be in a minority, and Hornby suggested it be used no more. Haberly was allowed to keep some of the type when he left Gregynog, and used it to better effect (some think) in his book 'The Crowning Year'. (Harrop 33). Seller Inventory # 75126
Bibliographic Details
Title: Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures.
Publisher: Gregynog Press
Publication Date: 1935
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