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Pennant and his Welsh landscapes : selected readings from A Tour in Wales (1778-1784) / edited and with an introduction by Gwyn Walters ; woodcuts by Rigby Graham ; [with a note by Robert Meyrick entitled Rigby Graham woodcuts].
- Title
- Pennant and his Welsh landscapes : selected readings from A Tour in Wales (1778-1784) / edited and with an introduction by Gwyn Walters ; woodcuts by Rigby Graham ; [with a note by Robert Meyrick entitled Rigby Graham woodcuts].
- Author
- Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.
- Publication
- [Newtown, Powys] : Gwasg Gregynog, 2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Rigby, Graham
- Walters, Gwyn
- Meyrick, Robert
- Vickers, David
- McIntosh, Harry.
- O'Shea, Gerard
- Sewell, John (John A.)
- Baskerville, John, 1706-1775
- Graham, Rigby, 1931-2015.
- Walters, Gwyn.
- Gwasg Gregynog (1974- ) publisher.
- Speedspools (Firm)
- Cranfield Colours Ltd. (Cwmbran, Wales)
- Canson & Montgolfier, papermaker. Arches vélin 160 gsm.
- Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
- Gwasg Gregynog (1974- ), publisher.
- Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.
- Description
- xxv, [1], 133, [4] p. : ill. (front., 15 col. woodcuts, 3 double-page col. woodcuts); w 25 x h 36, 5 x d 3, 5 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Tour in Wales. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Tour in Wales.
- Tour in Wales (1778-1784)
- Rigby Graham woodcuts.
- Subject
- Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
- Rigby, Graham
- Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 > Travel > Wales
- Graham, Rigby, 1931-2015
- Letterpress printing > 21st century > Wales
- Wood-engraving > 21st century > Great Britain
- Computerized typesetting > MacTronic > 21st century > Wales
- Wood-engraving > Great Britain > 21st century
- Letterpress printing > Wales > 21st century
- Computerized typesetting > Wales > MacTronic > 21st century
- Wales > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
- Wales, North > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
- Genre/Form
- Typefaces (Type evidence) – Monotype Bembo.
- Printing in multiple colours (Printing)
- Private press books (Publishing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) – Monotype Baskerville Series 169.
- Mould-made papers – Canson & Montgolfier.
- Paper fibers – Cotton fibers.
- Note
- Limited ed. of 170 copies for sale. Copies numbered I-XX: with a set of 27 editioned prints, in a special binding by James Brockman, in a drop-back box. Copies numbered 1-150: bound in quarter leather by John Sewell, in a slipcase. Both bindings designed by the artist.
- Front and back inner cover papers made from double-page coloured woodcuts.
- Text and marginal notes.
- "This book, designed by Robert Meyrick, has been printed by David Vickers on Velin Arches 160 gsm pure cotton mould-made paper using a Heidelberg cylinder press. Rigy Graham's woodcuts were printed from the blocks using inks specially formulated by Cranfield Colours of Cwmbran. A further seven blocks were made available separately as prints. Monotype Baskerville Series 169 has been used throughout the book: title pages and chapter opneings hand-set in 18, 24 and 36 point, the text pages cast in 8 and 14 point from spools produced at Speedspools by Harry McIntosh. The compositor was Gerard O'Shea." -- colophon.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0954983912 (quarter leather)
- 0954983904 (special binding)
- OCLC
- 70908747
- SCSB-12126632
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library