Price: £1,200
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 1935
Stock Number: 75126
(Gregynog Press.) BRIDGES (Robert)
Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures.
Description: 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
Publication Details: Newtown, Powys: Gregynog Press, 1935
Notes: 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 thi...more
Bibliography: (Harrop 33)
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