Paraphrased into English by Virginia and Frank Vernon. Illustrated with 13 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Tan linen, gilt device at front cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. No. 255 of 500 copies printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press. Blair Rowlands Hughes-Stanton was a major figure in the English wood-engraving revival in the twentieth century. He was the son of the artist Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton. He exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers, but was more in sympathy with the philosophy of the English Wood Engraving Society, of which he was a founding member in 1925. He co-directed the Gregynog Press from 1930 to 1933 with his wife, Gertrude Hermes
Paraphrased into English by Virginia and Frank Vernon. Illustrated with 13 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Tan linen, gilt device at front cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. No. 255 of 500 copies printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press. Blair Rowlands Hughes-Stanton was a major figure in the English wood-engraving revival in the twentieth century. He was the son of the artist Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton. He exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers, but was more in sympathy with the philosophy of the English Wood Engraving Society, of which he was a founding member in 1925. He co-directed the Gregynog Press from 1930 to 1933 with his wife, Gertrude Hermes
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