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  • These are Gregynog Press special bindings. The volume on the right is 'Fables of Aesope' by William MacCance (1894-1970), published by the Gregynog Press in 1931. Three of Britain's most technically brilliant and imaginative wood-engravers worked at Gregynog between 1930 and 1933, namely, Blair Hughes Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and Agnes Miller Parker. The book on the left is 'Erewhon' by Samuel Butler with wood engravings by Blair Hughes Stanton. Published by Gregynog, 1932
Special bindings from the Gregynog Press, 1931-2
  • Lord's Prayer in Welsh in ink and gold leaf.
'Ein Tad': The Lord's Prayer in Welsh by Vera Law, 1923
  • George Chapman (1908-1993), an English-born artist, first came to south Wales in the 1950s. He found inspiration in the industrial landscape of south Wales, notably the Rhondda Valley, and moved to Wales in 1960. He won the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 1957 for his oil painting 'View in Merthyr Tydfil'.
'Going Home' (Trehafod) by George Chapman, 1960s (etching)
'La Lavoir' by Claudia Williams (watercolour and pencil)
  • Edgar Holloway was a key figure in the etching revival of the 1930s.
'Self Portrait' by Edgar Holloway (b.1914), 1936
  • Handel Evans trained at Cardiff College of Art 1949-54 and made a living as a practising artist. He travelled widely spending much of his time in the Caribbean and Germany.
'The Vaults' by Handel Evans (1932-99), 1987