translated by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones number 452 of 550 copies, wood-engraved frontispiece, pictorial title and full-page illustrations by Dorothea Braby, light spotting to last few leaves, original pictorial half morocco, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little soiled, corners slightly rubbed and bumped, 1948 § Jones (Gwyn) The Green Island, number 68 of 100 specially-bound copies, from an edition limited to 500, 1946 § Williams (Gwyn, translator) Against Women, a Satire translated from the Old Welsh, number 187 of 350 copies, original cloth, gilt, glacine wrapper (torn at spine), 1953; In Defence of Women by Wiliam [sic] Cynwal, number 77 of 100 specially-bound copies with an extra engraving, from an edition limited to 500, original blue morocco, gilt, by Hiscox, 1960, the last three with wood-engraved frontispieces/titles and illustrations by John Petts some printed in colours, most t.e.g., others uncut, slightly rubbed, spines faded, all Golden Cockerel Press; and 2 others from the press illustrated by Braby, v.s. (6) *** Regarding the third, “I had such fun with this book! [Against Women]. It was a mad sixteenth century Welshman’s idea of how wicked women are...”. Christopher Sandford, Cock-a-Hoop 192.
translated by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones number 452 of 550 copies, wood-engraved frontispiece, pictorial title and full-page illustrations by Dorothea Braby, light spotting to last few leaves, original pictorial half morocco, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a little soiled, corners slightly rubbed and bumped, 1948 § Jones (Gwyn) The Green Island, number 68 of 100 specially-bound copies, from an edition limited to 500, 1946 § Williams (Gwyn, translator) Against Women, a Satire translated from the Old Welsh, number 187 of 350 copies, original cloth, gilt, glacine wrapper (torn at spine), 1953; In Defence of Women by Wiliam [sic] Cynwal, number 77 of 100 specially-bound copies with an extra engraving, from an edition limited to 500, original blue morocco, gilt, by Hiscox, 1960, the last three with wood-engraved frontispieces/titles and illustrations by John Petts some printed in colours, most t.e.g., others uncut, slightly rubbed, spines faded, all Golden Cockerel Press; and 2 others from the press illustrated by Braby, v.s. (6) *** Regarding the third, “I had such fun with this book! [Against Women]. It was a mad sixteenth century Welshman’s idea of how wicked women are...”. Christopher Sandford, Cock-a-Hoop 192.
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