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192424032450Ditchling Sussex: S. Dominic's Press 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good . Gill Eric. One of 150 copies folio size 40 pp. Eric Gill 1882-1940 English sculptor typographer illustrator and printmaker is perhaps best known for his wood engravings; his work is characterised by sensual line work and elegant characters with a deep spirituality. <br /> <br /> This volume appears to be one of the first attempts to compile Gill's work in a single volume; however per Evan Gill's bibliography it "was prepared and published entirely without Gill's knowledge and consent." p. 162. As always seeing Gill's work with the depth and texture of an engraving is so very different from seeing an offset- or digitally-printed version; this work contains a wonderful selection of his early work with his talent already in its full glory. <br /> <br /> The work contains a total of thirty-eight of Gill's engravings including those done jointly with David Jones. Note that the list is given on the Contents page but does not call out that there are two engravings on the title page and four on p. 28. <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full natural linen cloth over boards title page in red and black with two of the thirty-eight engravings a hand-made notation in the second sentence of the title which apparently was made to all copies as other online listings have the same correction noted limitation statement following the title page issued in an edition of 150 copies this no. 83 each engraving on the rectos only vintage bookseller ticket on the rear pastedown Phillip C. Duschenes New York; binding folio size 12 1/2" by 10" pagination: ii 36 leaves 2 printed recto only. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Somewhat better than very good the front board clean the corners gently bumped with the linen cloth just beginning to rub a strong square text block with solid hinges and entirely free of prior owner markings; some foxing and a small spot of soil on the back board some foxing throughout and on some pages some marks which appear to be offsetting which fortunately do not intrude upon the engravings. Lacking the very scarce dust wrapper. <br /> <br /> ___CITATIONS: Taylor & Sewell no. A129; Gill no. 410 which states "thirty-seven engravings" but correctly lists each one of the thirty-eight. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. International customers please note that any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. S. Dominic's Press hardcover
42390showing a man seated in front of a fire with a clock on the mantelpiece published on page 27 of 'God and the Dragon' Rhymes by H.D.C. Pepler No. 15 of the publications of the St. Dominic's Press 2¾" x 1¾" on sheet 4½" x 4½" Ditchling Sussex The block was subsequently used for illustration on page 33 of 'Nisi Dominus' E.R.G. 372 rimes by H. D. C. Pepler St. Dominic's Press publication No. 29 1919; on page 35 of 'Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae Juxta Ritum Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum Jussu Editae' E.R.G. 384 publication No. 37 1923; on page 5 of 'Aspidistras & Parlers' E.R.G. 392 a rhyme booklet by H. D. C. Pepler publication No. 9d 1927. Printed on the same sheet as the 1st state. E.9132-1952. Hilary Douglas Clark PEPLER 1878-1951 was an English printer writer and poet. He was an associate of both Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton working on publications in which they had an interest. He was also a founder with Gill and Desmond Chute in 1920 of a Catholic community of craftsmen at Ditchling Sussex called The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic. unknown
18792169Paris, Librairie des Abrutis, 1879, 12 X 19 cm., broché, 103 pp. Poèmes ou chansons humoristiques. Edition originale dont il n'a pas été tiré de grand papier. L'ouvrage du même nom publié ultérieurement par Flammarion a peu de textes en commun avec celui-ci et surtout ne reprend pas l'extraordinaire "Art de se conduire dans la Société des Pauvres Bougres". Couverture illustrée avec manques dans les marges, dos muet fendu avec manques. Orné de culs-de-lampes. Papier fragile, mais propre.
71042P., Editions Marcel Seheur (Collection "L'Art et la Vie"), 1927, grand in 8° broché, IV-331 pages ; couvetruer illustrée remmpliée.
190511578New York: Gill Engraving Company 1905. Near Fine. Framed original black and white animated art piece depicting a colonial print shop and the arrival of a new hand screw press. Appears to be acrylic on artists' board. One of a series of illustrations by E. M. Gill which were featured in Artemas Ward's advertising trade journal "Fame" around the turn of the 20th century. Nicely matted and framed. (Gill Engraving Company?) unknown
197356021London:: Cassell & Co Ltd 1973. First edition; No. 686 of 1000 copies. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a few tiny nicks and short closed tears. 8vo. Illustrated. Foreword by Walter Shewring. Cassell & Co Ltd, hardcover
1953229404London Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1953. 1953. First edition so stated. 4to. 2 page foreword by Walter Shewring. Frontispiece portrait photograph 96 facsimiles of title pages additional illustrations. Original gilt stamped dark blue cloth t.e.g. Dust jacket unclipped; short tear nick. Very good-fine. 224 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Number 734 of 1000 numbered copies. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Cassell & Co. Ltd. [1953]. hardcover
198932079AB1989. Third Edition. London faber & faber 1989. Octavo. XIII 338 pages with 129 illustrations on plates and 58 Figures within the Text. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. A stunning condition of this landmark publication revealing the paedophile behind the artist and triggering the question: "Can we separate the artist from the abuser " see Guardian - article by Rachel Cooke. April 9th 2017. Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ARA 22 February 1882 17 November 1940 was an English sculptor typeface designer and printmaker who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure with his well-known religious views and subject matter generally viewed as being at odds with his sexual behaviour including his erotic art and sexual abuse of his daughters. Gill was named Royal Designer for Industry the highest British award for designers by the Royal Society of Arts. He also became a founder-member of the newly established Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry. Wikipedia hardcover
3118Offered here is a set of six sheets from Eric Gill’s famous Golden Cockerell issue of the “Four Gospels†likely printed by Christopher Skelton from his 1987 edition. 10 printed pages two blank sides. Including the front page with full-size woodcut Gospel of John five woodcut illustrations decorated initials. Various pages all fine condition. The “Four Gospels†is commonly considered one of the greatest Press Books of the late 19th and early 20th Century alongside the “Dove’s Bible†and the “Kelmscott Chaucer.â€. unknown
193117082112Near Hughenden Buckinghamshire: Sheed & Ward Publishers 1931. No binding. Near fine. Gill Eric. Prospectus only duodecimo size 4 pp. "TYPOGRAPHY" was the first book printed at Pigotts the partnership between renowned printer and artist Eric Gill 1882-1940 and Rene Hague his daughter Joanna's husband. The prospectus includes a reproduction of p. 37 and a short essay on typography in the arts-and-crafts mode. <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Cream-coloured sheet folded once to make four pages printed in black with wood engraving by Gill "Tree and Dog" P734 on the front page; duodecimo size 7.5" by 5". <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Near fine clean with only very slight wear to the edges. <br /> <br /> ___CITATION: Gill no. 21. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Sheed & Ward, Publishers unknown
193117083230Near Hughenden Buckinghamshire: Sheed & Ward 1931. No binding. Fine. Gill Eric. Prospectus only octavo size 4 pp. "TYPOGRAPHY" was the first book printed at Pigotts the partnership between renowned printer and artist Eric Gill 1882-1940 and Rene Hague his daughter Joanna's husband; this prospectus includes a reproduction of pp. 8-9 and a short essay on typography in the arts-and-crafts mode. <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Off-white sheet folded twice to make four pages printed in black; duodecimo size 7.5" by 5". <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Fine clean and without wear. <br /> <br /> ___CITATION: Gill no. 21. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Sheed & Ward unknown
192521215271925. Golden Cockerel Press. 1925. 8vo. Original linen-backed boards printed paper spine label slightly embrowned edges untrimmed; pp. viii36 colophon; 8 wood engravings by Eric Gill; a very good copy. Provenance: from the collection of a friend of Enid Clay's known to us only as Eve.Limited to 450 numbered copies ffep inscribed by the author ""To Eve/ with love and remembrance/ Enid"". This book was ""crowned""as the finest publication of 1925 by the Double Crown Club and is noted not only for Clay's fine poems but also for the wood engravings by her brother Eric Gill.sold with1. Wedding invitation 12 x 10 cm 4 ll. folded at top edge with cover design ""Man and woman embracing"" by Eric Gill. This is an invitation to the 1938 wedding of Margaret Enid's daughter and Eric's niece to Edgar Breitenbach an art historian who would later become instrumental in tracking down artworks ransacked by the Nazis during the war. We have found only two other specimens of this very rare Gill work at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Washington University.2. Prospectus for The Constant Mistress by Enid Clay Golden Cockerel Press 1934. 4 ll with wood engravings by Eric Gill.3. Manuscript draft of ""The Constant Mistress"" in Enid Clay's hand ink dated 1927 pale blue notepaper 26 x 20.5 cim one side only.4. Manuscript draft of poem beginning ""When all this wonder of earth and vivid sky."" in Enid Clay's hand dated 1932 pale blue notepaper 26 x 20.5 cm both sides. Recto with message ""These are the mines I tried to get into shape when I was with you. 'Pedlars Pack' a new magazine printed them in their March number'5. 4 typed drafts cream notepaper 24 x 19cm each on one side only of three poems from The Constant Mistress ""Gifts"" ""Suburban Spring"" and ""Norfolk Dunes"" here ""The Dunes"" and one untitled poem dated 1927.Evan Gill 274. Chanticleer 25. hardcover
191531856AB1915. First Edition. London - Hammersmith Published at The Hampshire House Workshops 1915. Octavo. Frontispiece 125 pages with woodcuts throughout the publication. Hardcover / Original publisher's illustrated Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Hilary Pepler also known as Douglas Pepler was born at Eastbourne to a Quaker family and educated at Bootham School. After school he tried several occupations including land surveying the tea trade and engineering. In the early 1900s Pepler moved to Hammersmith London with his wife Clare Whiteman and obtained employment with London City Council in the department of child-care. He developed an interest in social theory and how to improve the lives of working people in the face of industrialisation writing several tracts on the subject. On a practical level he was instrumental in the introduction of free school meals; by any standards a very considerable achievement. His experience of Social Work however left him skeptical as to the ultimate value of such initiatives and most inclined to support self-help as a better means of eradicating poverty. Hammersmith at the time was something of an Arts and Crafts enclave and Pepler became deeply involved in the movement and the socialist politics of Fabianism. He soon became friends with Edward Johnston later meeting Eric Gill. These three formed a close bond spending many hours debating social and artistic issues. Pepler with Susan and Stephen 1916. Notwithstanding Gills move to Ditchling in 1907 Pepler continued to develop his ideas and maintained contact. One major initiative that he was involved in was founding the Hampshire House Club in 1907 a working mens club in Hammersmith with a strong political and didactic agenda. When war broke out the organisation was used as a basis to organise workshop facilities for refugee Belgian craftsmen in a structure not unlike what the Guild was to become. Indeed lessons learnt from this experience were to inform the way the Guild was set up. Another major project for Pepler was writing The Devils Devices which was published in 1915 by Hampshire House itself. It is a satire not just opposing capitalism and industrialisation but also Trade Unionism Government and even general education which he sees as an unnecessary distraction in the lives of the working classes. He gives support to the Distributist ideas of small workshops owned by the workers as the preferable mode of economic entity but goes beyond most thinkers by declaring everything else being the work of the devil. What he seems to be proposing borders on a benign form of anarchy with no central provision and his views have obviously moved a long way beyond what could be appropriate for an official with LCC. It is of little surprise that he was by now looking for different employment. Source: The Guild of St.Joseph and St. Dominic hardcover
192575578Waltham St. Lawrence:: The Golden Cockerel Press 1925. First edition; No. 18 of 30 copies hand-colored by Eric Gill; signed by Eric Gill and Robert Gibbings. publisher's white cloth in publisher's clear mylar wrapper and a custom slipcase. A beautiful copy. The mylar is a little rippled with a few tiny spots to the rear panel. 4to. See Chanticleer #31. The Golden Cockerel Press, hardcover
200046813New York: The Monacelli Press 2000. First edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed first printing of this illustrated reflection on the work of early-20th century modernist architect Irving Gill influential yet rarely written on. Irving Gill "radically redefined the architectural landscape of Southern California" jacket; this volume is the first to comprehensively explore his work and influence. 10'' x 10''. Original black boards. Original unclipped no price color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white and color. 304 pages including index. Inscribed by Hines to title page: "For Andre Fontaine. with all best wishes. from Thomas Hines. 2008." Autograph letter signed on UCLArts letterhead from Hines loosely laid in dated 15 January 2008. Book has slight lean. Else sharp and bright. The Monacelli Press unknown
1904763031904. GILL John. Reminiscences of Four Years as a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 1861-1865. Baltimore: Sun Printing Office 1904. 1st ed. 1361 appendixpp. Portrait frontis. Orig. cloth. Ex-library stamps on pastedowns mostly removed front inner hinge starting else very good. HOWES G-169. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper "To my old friend & comrade Thos. M. Harrison. Compliments of John Gill. Baltimore Md. 1904." Harrison served in Co. A 2nd Maryland Infantry. "Highly personal recollections of a young soldier whose service was primarily in Virginia; Gill was a Marylander who enlisted in a cavalry unit" Nevins I p.94. unknown
51468GILL John. Reminiscences of Four Years as a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 1861-1865. Baltimore: Sun Printing Office 1904. 1st ed. 136 1pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. cloth. some light flaking to lettering on front cover; else a very good copy. HOWES G-169. Presentation inscriptuion from the author on front free endpaper. "Highly personal recollections of a young soldier whose service was primarily inVirginia; gill was a Marylander who enlisted in a cavalary unit." Nevins Ip.94. unknown
63-1416Berlin Germany: Alte Und Neue Welt 1896. 12" x 7" Print of wood engraving. Very Good with toning. Text in German. [Berlin, Germany?]: Alte Und Neue Welt, 1896. unknown
40880The Melbourne Rose. Part II. Honour to the brave memory of John King R. O’Hara Burke William John Wills. London : Myers & Co. 1862 printed in Hamburg. Chromolithographed and engraved folding pictorial ephemeron die cut in the shape of a rose small loss to a couple of small pieces in the centre without the original gilt-printed envelope which bears the title and imprint. The Davidson copy auctioned in 2008 also lacked the envelope. A very rare and significant Melbourne related publication based on the engravings of S. T. Gill. Each example we have handled has had a different combination of scenes. unknown
1865129583London: Published by Paul Jerrard & Son for the Proprietor Messrs. Newbold & Co 1865. Very Good. London Published by Paul Jerrard & Son for the Proprietor Messrs. Newbold & Co. after 1865. Two hand-coloured lithographs individually framed and glazed at a much later date matted just outside the printed border obscuring the series title and plate number above the upper border; visible image sizes approximately 210 × 260 mm; external dimensions 422 × 447 mm. Hand-colouring a little faded; light uneven tanning to the 'Bushrangers' plate; overall in excellent condition but not examined out of the frames. The complete series comprises twelve views of the Australian goldfields in the manner of S.T. Gill; the set 'was probably issued loose without any title or wrapper' Wantrup page 327. The two plates on offer are 'The Lost Bushman or The Unfortunate Digger That Never Returned' Number 2 and 'Bushrangers waiting for the Mails in New South Wales' Number 5. The title is printed beneath the image along with four lines of explanatory text; the 'Lost Bushman' plate also has an additional four lines of verse. <p>Wantrup suggests a date of publication after the appearance of Gill's 'Australian Sketchbook' in 1865 due to the numerous similarities between the two works. Complete sets of this series and probably individual plates too are clearly rare: Wantrup refers to incomplete sets selling at auction in 1977 and 1982 and the only addition to the book auction records since then is the incomplete set in the 2008 Davidson Collection sale when 11 framed and glazed plates sold for $18640 against an estimate of $6000-8000. <p>Ferguson 15738b; Wantrup 255. 2 items. Published by Paul Jerrard & Son for the Proprietor Messrs. Newbold & Co unknown
22673London : Joseph Myers & Co. 1862 printed in Hamburg by C. Adler's Printing Establishment. Twenty-eight steel engraved vignettes cut from the original ephemeron which was an illustrated diecut folding card in the shape of a rose pasted on to an old album sheet. A significant and very rare Melbourne publication of the gold rush era with engravings after those of S.T. Gill in Victoria Illustrated 1857 and Victoria Illustrated. Second Series 1862. In the examples we have handled the groupings of engravings vary. Furthermore the scenes themselves are adapted from the Gill originals and have some embellishments. This example includes various scenes of Geelong and a pair of 'natives'. unknown
195031577AB1950. England / Ireland c.1950 - 1990. Octavo / Quarto. Hardcover Box / Bespoke made Box labelled "General Gill" for the private library of Prof.David Dave Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Gill William Daniel 191692 geologist was born 29 June 1916 at Hillam Yorks. second child among three sons and three daughters of Richard Wells Gill farmer and Eva Gill née Hesselgrave. He was educated at Castleford Grammar School and Leeds University where he had a successful undergraduate career and received a degree in geology 1938. Robert George Spencer Hudson was his professor and the two men remained close friends for the next thirty years. On leaving Leeds he joined the Attock Oil Company 1938 as a field geologist and palaeontologist. During the second world war he worked as a development geologist and petroleum engineer in India including the Punjab later part of Pakistan and Burma and became a leading expert on Himalayan geology. In 1948 he left the oil industry for academia and a lectureship in geology at Nottingham University. Two years later he was awarded a D.Sc. 1950 by Leeds University for his publications on Himalayan geology and in 1953 he was appointed professor of geology and mineralogy at TCD the first non-Irish holder of the position since 1883. Under his direction and with the aid of funds from the earl of Iveagh qv and oil industry contacts the geology department experienced a period of expansion. A vibrant postgraduate school of research was initiated which led eventually to an increase in staff numbers. The museum building which housed the department was internally reconstructed to include new research and teaching facilities. Unfortunately many of the original museum's historic rock collections were discarded in the move. In Ireland his research interests focused on the Upper Carboniferous rocks of Co. Clare and particularly on the deformation features of soft sedimentary structures so clearly exposed there. He published a significant paper on sand volcanoes with P. H. Keunen 1958 and brought his Clare work together in a later publication of the Geological Survey of Ireland 1979. He was in his element in the field where his enthusiasm for his subject was said to be more eloquent than in the lecture theatre. As oil and mineral exploration was initiated in Ireland in the 1950s he took on the role of consultant and with his students was involved in regional geological mapping. He expanded his consultancy role to oil companies in Libya and Greece and in 1961 resigned from Trinity to accept the chair of oil technology at the Royal School of Mines Imperial College London later becoming professor of petroleum geology 1976. Hudson his original professor replaced him at TCD 19616 in the chair of geology. In London Gill introduced the M.Sc. course in petroleum geology and established the first UK-based organic geochemistry laboratory for the study of petroleum-source rocks 1969. He continued to consult with oil companies and governments in Europe the Middle East Africa Australia and Canada. His extraordinary memory and ability to assimilate and synthesise information and data led to successful oil finds in newly explored areas. As a geologist he was most interested in the concepts of large-scale tectonic processes in such places as the Alps the Himalayas and the east African rift. However his impatience with detail meant his publication record never quite kept pace with his achievements. During his career he was elected FTCD 1958 fellow of the Geological Society of London and of the Institute of Petroleum London MRIA 1955 and member of the RDS vice-president 1959 1961. A self-confident and flamboyant man with a large physical presence he is said to have had grandiose plans which did not always come to pass. Known as Dan he was popular with both students and staff and was viewed as warm-hearted and straightforward. University politics however were not his strong point. On the death of Hudson 1966 Gill professed an interest in returning to Trinity provided he did not have to submit a formal application form. However TCD did not respond. He married 1946 in India Margaret Betty Torrance whom he had met in the Yorkshire dales when he was mapping as a student; they had two daughters. Their houses 16 Garville Avenue Rathgar Dublin and 85 Platt's Lane Hampstead London were the frequent hub of late-night parties where Dan would sing and play the piano. An active sportsman he loved cricket and was president of the Trinity boat and rugby clubs. In 1978 he retired to Glusburn Green Glusburn Yorks. but continued consultancy work in the Middle East for some time afterwards. His wife died in 1987; five years later he died 29 October 1992 in Yorkshire. This Biography was authored by Patricia M. Byrne for the Dictionary of Irish Biography - Source: dib.ie The collection includes the following essays papers offprints: 1. Himalaya - William Daniel Gill - "The Orogenesis of the North-West Himalaya" - Summary with several Maps regarding the "Analysis of the Himalayan-Kun Lun Mountain Systems and the Kashmir Basin etc. Original Galley Proofs c. 1953 2. Geology - William Daniel Gill - "Construction of Geological Sections of Folds with Steep-Limb Attenuation" 3. Iveagh Geological Laboratory - W.D.Gill - "The Iveagh Geological Laboratory Trinity College Dublin" 1956 4. Clare County - W.D.Gill and P.H.Kuehnen: "Sand Volcanoes on Slumps in the Carboniferous of County Clare Ireland" 1957 Including original typescript with an abstract on "Sand Volcanoes on Slumps" from W.D.Gill's library stapled 5. Geology General - W.D.Gill - "Geology on the Search for Oil" Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Oil Technology on March 13th 1962 - Includes seven 7 pages of manuscript notes by Dave Naylor on the subject of this work. 5. Geology - W.D.Gill - "Geology - I: "Basement Rock" / II - "The Upper Palaeozoic Systems" Dublin 1957 6. Ireland - Brindley J.C. and W.D.Gill - "Summer Field Meeting in Southern Ireland 1957" 1958 7. Ireland - W.D.Gill - "The Variscan Fold Belt in Ireland" Abstract with Map of Variscan Fold Styles in Ireland 1962 Including a Galley Proof of "The Variscan Fold Belt in Ireland" stapled and a presentation copy of the Variscan Fold-publication given from Gill to the Iveagh Geological Laboratory and subsequently owned by David Naylor 8. Geology - W.D.Gill - "Instability and Sliding in Delta Sediments" - Rough Typescript Contents for Springer Verlag 9. Africa - W.D.Gill - "Salt Basins around Africa" 1963 10. North Sea - W.D.Gill - "The North Sea Basin" 1967 11. Geology - W.D.Gill - "Tectonic role of evaporites" 1973 12. Iran / Pakistan - W.D.Gill - "Petroleum Source Rocks and the Origin of Oil and Gas in Iran Pakistan and the North Sea" Published in Tehran in 1978 - The Bulletin of The Iranian Petroleum Institute" First Quarter - Inscribed and signed by W.D.Gill to his colleague "David Naylor - with all blessings & Regards - Dan Gill" 13. Ireland - W.D.Gill - "Syndepositional Sliding and Slumping in the West Clare Namurian Basin Ireland" Xerox 1979 14. Gill W.D. - Some biographical information on W.D.Gill introducing Postgraduate Courses to TCD in 1963 page 10 of an offprint by G.D.Hobson: "The History of the Oil Technology course and its offshoots" - 1988 15. Pakistan - W.D.Gill - "The Genus Assilina in the Laki Series Lower Eocene of the Kohat-Potwar Basin Northwest Pakistan 16. W.D.Gill - "The Upper Palaeozoic Systems" Stamped "With the author's compliments" and given to Dave Naylor hardcover
1878207581878 P., Lemerre, 1878, in 12 relié demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos à faux nerfs orné, tête dorée, 179 pages ; qq. menus frottis.
1905144832Adelaide: Vardon & Pritchard Printers 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon & Pritchard Printers 1905. Octavo viii 161 pages with 37 illustrations plus 4 pages of plates including a map and a frontispiece with a tissue-guard. Original contrasting half cloth slightly flecked and rubbed; a number of ink stamps of the Gawler Institute throughout the text and on the three edges; mild signs of age and use; overall an excellent copy. Provenance: Geoffrey Farmer the Australian private press bibliographer with his bookplate designed by Mary Quick this one printed in red on the front pastedown. Vardon & Pritchard, Printers hardcover
109542London The Golden Cockerel Press 1929-31. . Limited edition number 439 of 485 copies on paper from a total edition of 500; 4 vols small folio 31.8 x 20 cm; wood engravings by Eric Gill including one full-page 29 half-page tailpieces initials and decorative borders initials printed in red blue and black; original Niger morocco-backed patterned boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe gilt lettering to spines top edges gilt others uncut light rubbing to extremities slight toning and soiling to boards some spotting and fading to spines as always; an attractive set.<br /> One of the major titles of the Golden Cockerel Press and an extraordinary collaboration between the press director and book designer Robert Gibbings 1889-1958 and artist Eric Gill 1882-1940. <br /><br />Printing the Canterbury Tales dominated work at the press for two and a half years and relatively few other books were printed during that period. However despite some critics deeming Gill's illustrations risqué and inappropriate the book was a considerable critical and financial success and grossed £14000.<br /> Chanticleer 63; Evan Gill 281. London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31. hardcover
