The Mountains of Wales An Anthology in Verse & Prose. (Gregynog Special)

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A literary history of how Wales's mountains have been seen rather than merely a book about mountains. One of the SPECIAL Copies, numbered I to XX, bound by James Brockman in stained transparent vellum boards, with blue & black calf onlays, black goatskin spine, all edges rough gilt, with blue suede doublures, light blue Japanese paper fly leaves, dark grey leather joints. Housed in a quarter black goatskin dropback box, with blue buckram sides, velvet lined, with a stained calf label to spine. Published in July, 1987, 189 pp, [2], 8 pl, 297*180 mm, the water colour by Parker, were printed by offset lithography by Adrian Lack, & tipped in. 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 travelers, 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. Fabulous and uncommon! (See Esslemont/Hughes Gwasg Gregynog 16, for further information)