Mourning the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple, 6th century BC, from The Lamentations of Jeremiah (1933). (ATL ref. fRPr GREG Lame 1933) The Lamenations of Jeremiah, produced in an edition of 250 copies by the Gregynog Press in 1933. The Press was founded in 1922 by two sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. It was unique in that everything was created under one roof: design, typography, illustration, printing and binding. Its fine printing owed much to the incomparable skill of Herbert John Hodgson, pressman from 1927 to 1936, and his successor, Idris Jones. From 1930-33, William MacCance and Blair Hughes-Stanton took the Press to new heights with their wood-engraved illustrations; but their activities were curtailed by economic recession. The Press closed in 1940 when male staff were called to active service. It had printed 42 books, three for private circulation, and well over 200 pieces of ephemera. The Turnbull Rare Book Collection holds 10 titles dating from 1924 to 1936. William MacCance, Herbert John Hodgson, and J. Hugh Jones were all involved with the printing of the Lamentations. Blair Hughes-Stanton designed and engraved the initial letters and illustrations. This was the last book produced by MacCance and Hughes-Stanton, and is considered to be one of the most spectacular to have come from Greynog Press.

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 45, 1 January 2013, Page 103

Mourning the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple, 6th century BC, from The Lamentations of Jeremiah (1933). (ATL ref. fRPr GREG Lame 1933) The Lamenations of Jeremiah, produced in an edition of 250 copies by the Gregynog Press in 1933. The Press was founded in 1922 by two sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. It was unique in that everything was created under one roof: design, typography, illustration, printing and binding. Its fine printing owed much to the incomparable skill of Herbert John Hodgson, pressman from 1927 to 1936, and his successor, Idris Jones. From 1930-33, William MacCance and Blair Hughes-Stanton took the Press to new heights with their wood-engraved illustrations; but their activities were curtailed by economic recession. The Press closed in 1940 when male staff were called to active service. It had printed 42 books, three for private circulation, and well over 200 pieces of ephemera. The Turnbull Rare Book Collection holds 10 titles dating from 1924 to 1936. William MacCance, Herbert John Hodgson, and J. Hugh Jones were all involved with the printing of the Lamentations. Blair Hughes-Stanton designed and engraved the initial letters and illustrations. This was the last book produced by MacCance and Hughes-Stanton, and is considered to be one of the most spectacular to have come from Greynog Press.