Wood engravings by Gertrude Hermes : being illustrations to Selborne, with extracts from Gilbert White

William Condry

RA Collection: Book

Record number

10/4554

Author

Imprint

Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1988

Physical Description

x, 29 p. : ill. ; 37 cm.

General Note

Reproducing for the first time, and from the original blocks, the set of six wood-engravings by Gertrude Hermes created whilst she was retained by the Gregynog Press between 1930-2, during which time she moved to live nearby the press in Montgomeryshire, with her husband Blair Hughes-Stanton and their two small children.

Copy Note

Limited edition of 240 numbered copies: 25 bound in full leather numbered I-XXV, 200 bound in quarter-cloth numbered 1-200, and 15 unbound copies numbered 201-215. Copy No. 69 of the 200 oridinary edition.

Binding Note

Original quarter tan cloth over patterned paper boards

Subject

Wood engravings
Private press books
Natural history - United Kingdom - England
White, Gilbert 1720-1793. Natural history and antiquities of Selborne, in the county of Southampton

Contributors

ISBN

0948714220 (full leather)
0948714212 (quarter cloth)