[38] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (mezzotint, aquatint, and relief etching) ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"In the tale of 'Culhwch and Olwen', the hardest of the forty tasks Ysbaddaden sets Culhwch as a price for winning his daughter is to obtain the comb, razor' and scissors from behind the ear of the giant boar, Twrch Trwyth. After the headlong pursuit across Wales from Ireland, King Arthur sends Gwrhyr, Interpreter of Tongues, in the form of a bird to negotiate with Grugyn Silver Bristle, Twrch's young sons. The image, a mezzotint with gilding, has Gwrhyr perched on an Iish sanding-stone"--Cf. Patkus.
Subject Terms:
Mabinogion. | Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Folk tales, Welsh. | Jones, Shirley -- Autograph. | Red Hen Press -- Publisher.