Essential Cerddi. Edited And With An Introduction By Sir Thomas Parry.  × Series [cM0hL39T]

Spine of box slightly faded and some light soiling, binding fine as is the book, aside from some light spots of finger soiling to verso of title page.

The second of the special bindings issued by the reformed Gwasg Gregynog. Sydney Cockerell had served a brief period at the Gregynog Press bindery in 1925, immediately preceding the arrival of Douglas Cockerell’s former student, George Fisher; Sydney went on to become a partner in his father’s business, renamed to ‘Douglas Cockerel & Son’, and continued the firm’s reputation as one of the foremost binderies of its time. It was Sydney Cockerell’s own student, James Brockman, who took charge of the Gwasg Gregynog bindery from 1982. Joan Rix Tebbutt, a graduate of Lettering and Book Design at the Glasgow School of Art, was one of the most distinctive mid-century designers and calligraphers ‘and her skills melded admirably with those of Sandy [Sydney] Cockerell in the long series of bindings on which they collaborated’ (Anthony Dowd, The Special Bindings of Gwasg Gregynog).