TITLE: Shaw Gives Himself Away
SUBTITLE: An Autobiographical Miscellany
AUTHOR: George Bernard Shaw
PUBLISHER: The Gregynog Press
PLACE: Newtown, Wales
YEAR: 1939
EDITION: First
NUMBERED: 294/300
NO.OF PAGES: [v], vii-xi [i], [ii]. 188 with frontispiece portrait wood engraving by John Farleigh. Printed in Baskerville type on Arnold & Foster green tinted hand-made paper, with a fore-edge rough cut.
BINDING: Bound by the Gregynog Press Bindery in full dark green oasis with onlaid abstract designs in orange with three symbols on the upper cover and one on the back cover., Tthe spine has orange titles with one raised band with block or orange onlay in lower panel, the covers with a horizontal band of orange onlay at the bottom. The binding is signed "Gregynog Press Bindery, Paul Nash".
SIZE [WITH SLIPCASE]:
Height: 26 cm
Width: 18.5 cm
Depth: 3.5 cm
Accompanied by a note:
"The best example of a fine "ordinary binding" is Paul Nash's splendid design in black and orange morocco with orange lettering for the volume of Bernard Shaw's autobiographical essays. This striking experiment more like a poster than a book has a place in the development of modern binding styles." Colin Franklin in "THE PRIVATE PRESSES," p. 125.
CONDITION:
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