The Mountains of Wales An Anthology in Verse & Prose.

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VG, Ltd ed, 8 pls. Bound in quarter stained transparent vellum by James Brockman and Desmond Shaw over grey Fabriano Roma hand made paper boards, gold rule, device in gold on upper cover, top edge gilt, titled in gold on the spine. 191 pp, 8 pls, folio, t.e.g., remainder uncut. In the publishers custom brown cloth slip case. (298*180 mm). (Esslemont/Hughes 160). Drawn on ten centuries of Welsh, Latin and English literature, this anthology ranges from the oldest traditions about Arthur to the autobiography of a hill farmers wife published in 1979. From Giraldus Cambrensis' reaction to Snowdonia in 1188 to that of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In between come the heroics of the Princes, the pioneer naturalists, Pennant and the early travellers, the great English romantic poets, the first climbers, artists like Augustus John and John Piper, writers like Edward Thomas and Robert Graves, TH Parry-Williams and RS Thomas. (