GREGYNOG PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. DE VEGA, Lope. ~ The Star of Seville. A Drama in Three Acts and in Verse.
Translated out of Spanish by Henry Thomas. No. 130 of 175 copies. Line block on title page drawn by W. Charles Thomas, the translator’s brother, printed in black, blue, orange and red, Gregynog press device in red and green on final page. Printed in red and black in Bembo type on Batchelor special watermarked handmade paper. 8vo., handsome original binding of full black morocco blocked on both covers with a Moorish design of interlaced blind strapwork and gilt stars, spine decorated in blind and gilt with strapwork and stars, titling and device in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. An extremely good, fresh copy with only a little darkening to the fore and lower edges
Published in time for the tercentenary of Lope De Vega’s death, although this was a rather curious text being a rather stilted seventeenth century Spanish play of rather intellectual passion and death. The binding was based on an old Sevillian binding in the translator’s collection. Henry Thomas was an expert on old Spanish bookbindings and Harrop notes that his collection was the best in Britain...perhaps not surprisingly.