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1934132838London UK: Faber & Faber Ltd 1934. cloth. 12.75" x 10.25" cloth. 102 engravings. One of 300 copies. With a preface by the engraver. Printed by Hague & Gill at High Wycombe. Green cloth over boards; title in gilt on spine. Two pages slightly torn at the fore-edge. Minor bump to the head of the spine else in find condition. Gill: 27 A handsome set in very good condition. In new matching leather-trimmed slipcases. Faber & Faber Ltd unknown books
19282221843<p>SUPERB WATERCOLOR COCKTAIL SCENE</p><p>Fine original watercolor and pencil drawing of a crowded patio sidewalk cafe scene with 21 standing and seated figures smartly dressed enjoying cocktails as their waiters circulate. In the back ground are two vignettes bar scenes with shelves stocked with various liqueurs. In one vignette a man sips his cocktail at the bar. This may well be the Cafe-de la Terrasse near the French village of Salies-de-Bearn where Eric Gill and daughter Joanna spent time in 1928. 11" x 15 1/4". Signed in lower left corner and dated 1928. Very good several small pin holes.</p><p>From the collection of Eric Gill. Previously sold at Sotheby's London in the 1980's.</p><p>See pages 217-218 in Fiona MacCarthy's 1989 Eric Gill book for details of Joanna's Eric Gill's time in Salies-de-Bearn.</p> unknown books
1928107174Very slim small 8vo. London: Lanston Monotype Corp. for Eric Gill 1928. Very slim small 8vo 17 3 pp. Original black buckram as new. Bookplate by David Jones of Walter Shewring. § A true rarity limited to 55 copies and so inscribed in ink at the back by Eric Gill. Only two copies have sold at auction in the last 40 years; a handful of Institutional copies are noted. The book is a tiny treasure -- the title-page has a lovely device printed in red and the colophon has a large woodcut map of the location of Pigotts where Gill lived and worked at that time. Lanston Monotype Corp. for Eric Gill hardcover books
196431239Eureka: Hearse Press 1964. First edition. Paperback. Fine. First edition. A collection of forty-two separate broadsides of various sizes laid into a printed thick paper portfolio. All elements in fine condition. These broadsides published between 1960 and 1964 and included here in toto for the first time. One of 150 copies. Notable for the inclusion of Waste Basket His Wife The Painter The Old Man On The Corner and The Paper On The Floor four broadsides by Charles Bukowski. Although not called for All FOUR OF THE BUKOWSKI BROADSIDES ARE SIGNED. The first example of any of these that we have found signed. Some of Buk's earliest work. Hearse Press paperback books
19151071844to 13 x 10. Ditchling Sussex: Douglas Pepler 1915. 4to 13 x 10.5 inches. Woodcut title-page with triangular device enclosing the letters HDCP EG 1915. Original printed blue paper wrappers slightly soiled and spotted internally perfect. Enclosed in a quarter blue morocco box. § First printing limited edition; this is # 14 of 15 on Japanese paper printed on one side of the leaf only and signed by Eric Gill in pencil. These emblems were engraved for the "Devil's Devices or Control versus Service" a book written by Douglas Pepler HDCP and published at the Hampshire House Workshops Hammersmith London on Saint Thomas' day 1915. Douglas Pepler unknown books
19291068034to. Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon 1929. 4to xii 49 5 pp. Frontispiece and 103 plates showing 147 engravings. Original black cloth gilt vignette to upper cover hinges cracked but the covers still firmly attached by the ties. In a new quarter calf folding box. § Limited to 400 copies from a total edition of 490 this copy not numbered. Gill's own copy with his bookplate and filled with corrections and annotations to the List of Engravings plus a marginal note to his Introduction. The Prospectus for this work is loosely inserted with Gill's pencil calculations to the final page as to how much money each variant of the edition will bring in - a total of £3192 plus a press cutting and a couple of other pieces of ephemera inserted as well. The ultimate copy of a scarce title - the first collection of Gill's work including his magnificent illustrations for several Golden Cockerel Press books as well as designs for the St. Dominic's Press and many other ephemeral pieces. Gill's Preface sets out his unique philosophy concluding with two pages of Latin. "Whatever may be said of life it remains that in art desire may be feeble or insufficient but it can never be wrong; it is the intellect that makes mistakes". Next to the sentence "Being a Catholic I naturally accepted the Catholic faith - as one intending to go to Peterborough naturally takes the train there" Gill has written "Why Peterboro' because it was in the train to Peterboro' that this part of this preface was written. EG". The list of engravings has a number of annotations and corrections inserting 6 engravings not mentioned into the list expanding on descriptions and changing some sizes and titles. Evan Gill 17. Douglas Cleverdon hardcover books
1931317876n.p. but actually St. Lawrence Waltham: The Golden Cockerel Press 1931. Number 473 of 488 numbered copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper from a total edition of five hundred copies. 64 wood-engraved illustrations and initials printed from the blocks by Eic Gill. 1 vols. Small folio. Three quarter white pigskin and tan polished buckram raised bands t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Some light soiling and faintest traces of rubbing to spine. Fine copy. Gill Eric. Number 473 of 488 numbered copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper from a total edition of five hundred copies. 64 wood-engraved illustrations and initials printed from the blocks by Eic Gill. 1 vols. Small folio. Gill's Masterpiece. One of Eric Gill's masterpieces as an illustrator. "Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings this is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves BIBLE and the Kelmscott CHAUCER. A flower among the best products of English romantic genius it is also surely thanks to its illustrator . the book among all books in which the Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration" Chanticleer. Gill Eric Gill 285; Chanticleer 78; Artist & the Book 122; From Manet to Hockney 89 The Golden Cockerel Press unknown books
19291071404to. Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon 1929. 4to xii 49 5 pp. With an extra suite of the engravings on Japon wood-engraved self-portrait and 103 plates a few printed in red or red and black additional plates loose as issued in pocket at end. Original de luxe binding of quarter vellum. A very good copy. Bookplate of R.L. Langdon-Down. § Limited to 80 de luxe copies signed by Gill with the extra suite on Japon of all the plates printed from the original blocks from a total edition of 490. The de luxe copy of a scarce title - the first collection of Gill's work including his magnificent illustrations for several Golden Cockerel Press books as well as designs for the St. Dominic's Press and many other ephemeral pieces all printed from the original blocks. Evan Gill 17. Douglas Cleverdon hardcover books
