GREGYNOG PRESS. WYNNE, Ellis. ~ Visions of the Sleeping Bard. Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc.
No. 26 of 175 copies. Wood engraved frontispiece by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Printed in Bembo type on Barcham Green handmade paper, with the text in Welsh on the verso and English on recto. 28.2 x 21.6 cm. 4to, bound at the Gregynog Press Bindery by George Fisher in original quarter red oasis morocco, plum cloth sides decorated in a gilt and red powdered design, seven immaculate parallel gilt fillets on the spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. A very good copy.
The penultimate book printed at the Gregynog Press with, as Harrop remarks, “one of the most pleasing...bindings”
Ellis Wynne (1671-1734) was a Welsh cleric whose Visions became a classic of Welsh literature. It was first published in Welsh in London in 1703 and reprinted numerous times as well as being translated by George Borrow in 1860. Here we have a new translation especially for the Gregynog Press. Wynne’s three visions were of the World, of Death and of Hell and using satire he highlighted the problems of Welsh society at that time.