Gregynog Press

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Gregynog Hall

The Gregynog Press,[1][2] also known as Gwasg Gregynog, is a printing press and charity located at Gregynog Hall near Newtown in Powys, Wales.

Early years

Founded in 1922 by the sisters and art patrons

limited edition books, primarily on a Victoria platen printing press. Much of the printing work from 1927 to 1936 was carried out by the skilled printer Herbert John Hodgson,[5] who had previously worked on the 1926 edition of the T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom.[6] The American poet and printer Loyd Haberly
was briefly the controller of the press.

It commissioned a private typeface from Graily Hewitt, Gwendolin, dated 1935.[7][8] It was manufactured as a private commission by Monotype.[9]

Reincarnation as Gwasg Gregynog

In 1954 after the death of Gwendoline Davies, Margaret donated most of the machinery used by Gregynog Press to the

Monotype machine. Among the publications of the press are a series of pamphlets entitled "Beirdd Gregynog / Gregynog Poets": the first of these was Euros Bowen's Yr Alarch, 1987.[10]

Gwasg Gregynog Limited is a company limited by guarantee which was incorporated on 28 June 1978. It adopted new Memorandum and Articles of Association on 28 August 2001 and was granted charitable status by the Charity Commission on 11 January 2002 (charity no. 1090060).[11] Intended to benefit and educate the public, it offers lectures related to the press and printing techniques, as well as offering tours of press facilities, which are dedicated to maintaining traditional printing methods.[12]

The press has been involved in several historic events in Wales in connection with the

National Assembly. When the Assembly opened in Wales, the press produced its first documents, including a small hand-bound souvenir volume that served as the Assembly's first publication.[13] Later, in 2006, it bound a poem commissioned to mark the opening of the Senedd, the Assembly's permanent home, and written in calligraphy.[14]

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-1-84851-811-7
    .
  2. ISBN 0-7083-0634-9
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  3. ISBN 0-7083-1138-5
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  4. ISBN 0-900002-63-8
  5. ^ a b c History of Gwasg Gregynog and the Gregynog Press at Gwasg Gregynog website
  6. ^ Impressions of War: The Memoirs of Herbert Hodgson 1893-1974, Martlet Books, Oakham, 2010, ch. 3. Herbert Hodgson Printer: Work for T. E. Lawrence and at Gregynog, Wakefield: Fleece Press, 1989.
  7. ISBN 1-84188-139-2
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  8. ISBN 978-1-907224-03-4
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  9. ^ APHA Newsletter
  10. ISBN 978-0948714177
  11. ^ "Gwasg Gregynog Limited Directors Report and Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2002". Companies House. Companies House. 7 December 2002. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Appendix 1: Community Enablement Support Fund 'On-Going' Revenue Applications" (PDF). 29 May 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
  13. ^ "Searching for Gregynog: Welsh private press books". AbeBooks' Reading Copy. AbeBooks, Inc. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  14. ^ "Official Opening of the Senedd". National Assembly for Wales. Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2012.

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