The Celebrated Romance of Stealing of the Mare. Translated from the original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt and Done into Verse by Wilfred Scawen Blunt.

£800 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Spine darkened, very slight foxing to decorated paper boards, but still a handsome copy. Ownership signature of T. Gwynn Jones on ffe., the Welsh poet, professor, and translator whose important scholarship on Welsh literature and folklore had a significant influence on Robert Graves; his Detholiad o Ganiadau was published by the Gregynog Press in 1926. The magnificent illuminated initials vary in colour and design. One of the most beautiful Gregynog Books.

• Binding: Hardcover

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