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 National Library of Wales.[5] The press was reopened under the Welsh title Gwasg Gregynog by the University of Wales in 1978, and production resumed. While the National Library permanently loaned the Press its original Victoria platen press in 1980, since 1986, it has primarily printed with a Heidelberg Cylinder Press.[5]Typesetting of the smallest pieces is done by hand, but otherwise manuscripts are typeset with the use of a Monotype machine. Among the press publications 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 the 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 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
^Trevor Fishlock (2014). "Chapter 17: Lunch in the Blue Room". A Gift of Sunlight. ISBN978-1-84851-811-7.
^Glyn Tegai Hughes; Prys Morgan; J. Gareth Thomas, eds. (1977). "Chapter 8: The Gregynog Press". Gregynog. University of Wales Press. ISBN0-7083-0634-9.
^Ellis, Ted (1992). T.J.: A Life of Dr Thomas Jones, CH. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 246. ISBN0-7083-1138-5.
^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.
^Jaspert, W. Pincus; Berry, W. Turner; Johnson, Alfred F. (2001). Encyclopedia of Type Faces (Paperback ed.). London: Cassell Paperbacks. p. 110. ISBN1-84188-139-2.
^Nicholas, Robin; Sweet, Eric. David G. Lewis (ed.). Gwendolin: 75 years on. Gwasg Gregynog. ISBN978-1-907224-03-4.
Esslemont, David; Schanilec, Gaylord; Armacost, J. Andrew; Chambers, David (2003), Ink on the Elbow: conversations between David Esslemont & Gaylord Schanilec, Solmentes Press, ISBN978-0-907014-20-1
Haberly, Loyd (1979) An American Bookbuilder in England and Wales. London: Bertram Rota
Hutchins, Michael (1976), Printing at Gregynog = Argraffu yng Ngregynog : aspects of a great private press = agweddau ar wasg breifat fawr; translated by David Jenkins = y cyfieithiad gan David Jenkins. Cardiff: Welsh Arts Council ISBN0905171047