Mapping Golgotha

Tregynon, Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 2007. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. BROCKWAY Harry. Probably one of the finest World War 1 works of poetry An edition limited to just 200 copies, this is an unbound, numbered (182) set of sheets, still in their sealed tissue wraps, house in a custom blue cloth clam shell box, title label to spine and upper boards, with the prospectus, 288*178 mm, [8], (ix-xiv), [1], 2-53 pp, [4], 19 illustrations, + 1 print, printed direct from the blocks, the colour from linocuts, the black from Resingrave, by Harry Brockway Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter, who on 4 June was commissioned into the Manchester regiment, crossed over to France on 29 December. He joined the 2nd Manchesters on the Somme and, in the second week of January 1917 (one of the coldest on record), led his platoon into the trenches. He returned to the front in September 1918 during the final advance on the German lines. His courage in the ensuing conflict won him the MC, but he was killed while crossing the Sambre and Oise Canal near Ors in the early morning of 4 November-one week before the armistice. See ODNB. [ref: 369] £300 An edition limited to just 200 copies, hand sewn and bound in quarter calfskin with hand sewn silk end-bands; titled in blind on the spine and with printed cloth sides, corners brushed, with its brown cloth covered slipcase, 180*280 mm, [8], (ix-xiv), [1], 2-53 pp, [4], 19 illustrations, printed direct from the blocks, the colour from lino-cuts, the black from Resingrave. Bound by John Sewell at the Gregynog Press using some of the original equipment. Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter, who on 4 June was commissioned into the Manchester regiment, crossed over to France on 29 December. He joined the 2nd Manchesters on the Somme and, in the second week of January 1917 (one of the coldest on record), led his platoon into the trenches. He returned to the front in September 1918 during the final advance on the German lines. His courage in the ensuing conflict won him the MC, but he was killed while crossing the Sambre and Oise Canal near Ors in the early morning of 4 November-one week before the armistice. See ODNB.