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Creator:
Cynwal, Wiliam, -1587 or 1588
Title(s):
In defence of woman : a Welsh poem / by Wiliam Cynwal ; translated by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.
Additional Title(s):
O blaid y gwragedd. English
Published/Created:
London : Golden Cockerel Press, [1960]
Physical Description:
28, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PB2273.C9 A67 1960 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
PB2273.C9 A67 1960 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
A reply to the satire Against women (Araith ddychan i'r gwragedd).
"Designed by Christopher Sandford for the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Golden Cockerel type on mould-made paper. Composition and presswork by The Chiswick Press. The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies, of which nos. 1-100 are specially bound and have one extra engraving"--Title page verso.
Golden Cockerel Press. Cock-a-hoop, 210
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is no. 500 of a limited edition of 500. Bound in publisher's blue cloth.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is no. 86 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Bound by Hiscox in full blue morocco. In rose paper slipcase.
Subject Terms:
Araith ddichan ir gwragedd.
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Welsh poetry.
Form/Genre:
Chromoxylographs -- 1960.
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Poems.
Contributors:
Williams, Gwyn, 1904-1990, translator.
Chiswick Press, printer.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Hiscox, E. W., binder.
Petts, John, 1914-1991, engraver.
Sandford, Christopher, book designer.
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