Fardd Bleddyn (2 results)

First edition. Text in English and Welsh. Recent craft binding of full black morocco, with a knot emblem in light grey leather decorated in gilt and white to the upper board, in a grey and black cloth traycase. Textured endpapers. Unpaginated. With a colour frontispiece of the coat of arms of the House of Aberffraw, commonly attributed to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. 15 tissue-guards loosely laid in throughout, as issued. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the leather bright and fresh. The contents, with some creasing to the tissue-guard facing the third poem ('Lament for Llywelyn ap Gruffudd' translated by Anthony Conran) and a couple of very light spots to the fore-edge of the closed text block, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the lightly rubbed and marked, structurally sound traycase. A collection of five historical poems about the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, compiled and printed by Peter Attwater. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition. Quarto. Text in English and Welsh. Recent craft binding of full black morocco, with a Welsh dragon emblem in red leather and decorated in gilt to the upper board, in a red leather and black cloth traycase. With a colour frontispiece of the coat of arms of the House of Aberffraw, commonly attributed to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. 15 tissue-guards loosely laid in throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the leather bright and fresh, with some dulling to the gilt decoration of the upper board, and a little bowing to the board edges. The contents, with a couple of light spots to the fore-edge of the closed text block and the occasional bleed to the extreme fore-edge of the margins, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the lightly rubbed and marked, structurally sound traycase. A collection of five historical poems about the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, compiled and printed by Peter Attwater. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.