EROS AND PSYCHE
BRIDGES, Robert.
Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures … with Wood-cuts from Designs by Edward Burne-Jones.
[Gregynog], The Gregynog Press, 1935.
Large 4to, pp. [8], 141, [3], printed in green, red, and black, with engraved illustrations after drawings by Burne-Jones; a fine copy in the publisher’s cream pigskin, gilt (covers slightly spotted as often).
£1500
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Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures … with Wood-cuts from Designs by Edward Burne-Jones.
One of 300 copies, one of the most beautiful works from the Gregynog Press, with illustrations after Burne-Jones, and a new typeface (used only in this volume) by Graily Hewitt.
Robert Bridges (1844–1930) was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930; his Eros and Psyche (first 1885) adapted Apuleius’ myth with such success that Coventry Patmore predicted that Bridges’s version would ‘probably be the standard transcript’. The American poet and printer Loyd Haberly (1896–1981), named controller of the Gregynog Press in 1933, had previously met Bridges and decided to use illustrations initially made by Burne-Jones to accompany William Morris’s Earthly Paradise. New woodblocks were made from tracings at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, and the type was inspired by that of the 1472 Foligno edition of Dante’s Commedia.
