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DELRUE (PAUL C.) HERMES (GERTRUDE) Wood Engravings for The Lovers' Song-Book, ONE OF 50 SETS, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog (2) image 1
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DELRUE (PAUL C.)
HERMES (GERTRUDE) Wood Engravings for The Lovers' Song-Book, ONE OF 50 SETS, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog (2)

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DELRUE (PAUL C.)

HERMES (GERTRUDE) Wood Engravings for The Lovers' Song-Book, ONE OF 50 SETS, 10 wood-engraved plates by Hermes, each with embossed Gregynog stamp, with pencilled limitation numbers, black morocco-backed cloth by Paul C. Delrue, [1993]; DAVIES (W.H.) The Lovers' Song-book, one of 350 copies, printed in red and black, RED MOROCCO DESIGNER BINDING BY PAUL C. DELRUE (stamped inside upper cover and signed in pencil, 2007), the covers blind-stamped in vertical strips with a design of trailing "ropes" and leaf/bird shapes in black and blue morocco onlays and inlays, black morocco spine with red onlays and gilt lettering, original red leather lined case, 1993, together 2 works, housed together in slipcase, 4to, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog (2)

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Two Gwasg Gregynog publications, including a suite of ten wood-engravings by Gertrude Hermes, specially bound Paul C. Delrue, a Fellow of the Society of Bookbinders since 1981, having founded and served as chairman of the Chester and North Wales branch in 1979. The design for the binding is in Delrue's distinctive "Tudor style".

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