The Lamentations of Jeremiah / [translated by Frederick Scrivener ; with wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton].
RA Collection: Book
Record number
09/2940
Variant Title
Bible. Lamentations. English. Scrivener.
Imprint
Montgomeryshire, Wales: The Gregynog Press, MCMXXXIII
Physical Description
[16] leaves : illustrations (21 wood engravings) ; 39 cm.
General Note
Lettering printed in blue and black.
"This edition has been taken from the text of Dr. Scrivener's Paragraph Bible, by consent of The Cambridge University Press" -- colophon.
“Printed by William MacCance & completed on the tenth day of August, nineteen hundred & thirty-three, at The Gregynog Press, Montgomeryshire, Wales … The format was arranged, the wood-engravings, title page and initial letters designed and engraved by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Hand-set by J. Hugh Jones in Baskerville Italic type. Pressman, Herbert John Hodgson.” -- colophon.
Wood engraved title with device, and 21 wood engravings in the text, five of them full-page chapter openings and book design by Blair Hughes-Stanton.
Copy Note
Edition limited to 250 copies. Number 64.
Binding Note
One of 125 copies bound in nocturnal blue 'Hermitage' calf (the remainder were bound in blue oasis). Device in blind on front cover, blind titling on front cover and spine. In the original brown card slipcase.