Gwasg Gregynog, Newtown, Wales, UK
George Herbert: Sundrie Pieces, 2003
A new selection of George Herbert’s poetry with samples of his prose edited with an introduction and notes by The Earl of Powis and illustrated with wood engravings by Sarah van Niekerk.
120 pages, 300 x 175mm, printed on T.H. Saunders Waterford mould-made paper, purple quarter leather binding with marbled paper sides, edition of 215. Numbered.
£450 (plus P&P and insurance)
Goethe Poems, 2000
A new collection published to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Goethe’s birth and the 600th of Johann Gutenburg. Edited by Jim Reed.
64 pages, 280 x 170mm, printed on Hahnemühle Mediaeval Laid mould-made paper, bound in quarter cloth by Alan Wood. Linocut illustration by Neil Holland. Edition of 150. Numbered.
£145 (plus P&P and insurance)
Wrenching Times, 1991
Poems from Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman
Selected by M. Wynn Thomas
Wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec
Drum Taps was first published by Walt Whitman at his own expense in 1865. He described it as ‘expressing the pending action of this Time and Land we swim in, with all their large conflicting fluctuations of despair and hope….’ Drum-Taps was very largely the product of the two and half years the middle-aged Whitman spent as unofficial visitor in some of the fifty army hospitals in and around Washington during the Civil War. During that time Whitman estimated he made six hundred visits and saw between eighty and a hundred thousand sick and wounded soldiers.
Designed and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper by David Esslemont at Gregynog with the assistance of Hugh Willmer. The typeface is Monotype Baskerville, the compositor David Vickers. Gaylord Schanilec’s wood engravings were made at Gregynog and printed from the original wood-blocks. Bound in quarter leather by Alan Wood and Rhian Ticehurst at Gregynog.
380 x 240 mm. 72 pp Number 186 from the edition of 450.
£400 (plus P&P and insurance)