Green gilt binding

Creator: Davies, W. H. (William Henry), 1871-1940

Place of Creation: [Newtown, Montgomeryshire, England]

Published by Gregynog Press

Date of creation : 1928

Additional creator : Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937

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Format : Book

Donated by The Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1984

George Fisher, responsible for this deceptively simple-looking binding has been called 'the finest British finisher of his generation'. The limited edition of Davies' Selected poems published by the Gregynog Press in 1928 had 25 copies bound in green morocco with a gilt pattern of fillet and leaves and a series of parallel lines running over the spine to the back cover. The binding is protected by a cloth folder and a slip-case. Fisher executed a number of bindings for the Gregynog Press during the 1920s and 1930s.

The Gregynog Press was established by two sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies at their home in rural Wales in 1922. Over the next 18 years they produced limited editions that were considered among of the finest of the early 20th century.