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194314253London 1943. 885 by 1140mm. 34.75 by 45 inches. Chromolithograph map some minor strengthening to folds. Gill was commissioned by the British Time & Tide magazine 1920-1986 following the World War Two Atlantic Charter agreement between the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill "for a better future for the world" 14 August 1941 - La Carta del Atlantico. Stunning design featuring detailed colourful pictorial depictions of agriculture and food production industrial raw materials and traditional life around the world including images of people animals trees cattle ships at sea planes flying overhead and markers with a symbol box listing the locations of metals wine crops petroleum tobacco sugar rubber silk coffee fruit precious stones etc. surrounded by clouds on the sides and the sun shining down from The Atlantic Charter in the text box at the top with a black and white image below of an industrial metal worker destroying tanks and machinery and a farming family ploughing a field with horses the cities countries continents and quotes in banners with a seal and a compass point on both sides all framed within a decorative border. Leslie MacDonald Gill 1884- 1947 was a note graphic designer cartographer artist and architect. Born in Brighton he was the younger brother of Eric Gill one of the leading figures of the Arts and Crafts movement. In 1914 his "Wonderground Map" commissioned by Frank Pick and hung at every station helped to save the London Underground by presenting an accurate map which also had a humorous side in cartoon style. Produced in poster form it was also made available for sale to members of the public and proved to be very popular. Elder brother Eric who at that time was engaged in a commission for Westminster Cathedral was included at the bottom of the map. He also designed of the standard upper case lettering used on headstones and war memorials by the Imperial War Graves Commission. But it is perhaps his illustrated maps for which he is most well known. These maps have featured in a series of exhibitions including Magnificent Maps exhibition in 2010 at the British Library an exhibition MacDonald Gill Out of the Shadows in 2011 at the University of Brighton and at the Mind the Map exhibition in 2012 at the London Transport Museum. unknown
193178694Waltham Saint Lawrence:: Printed and Published at the Golden Cockerel Press 1931. First of this edition; No. 102 of 500 copies 488 on paper. publisher's half pigskin and tan buckram boards t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London. The tan cloth of the binding is foxed as usual with a few small stains; and the rounded back of the pigskin spine is irregularly tanned. The interior is very fine throughout. Folio. With Decorations by Eric Gill. Printed and Published at the Golden Cockerel Press, hardcover
19429566London: George Philip & Son Ltd 1942. Pictorial world map on Mercators projection 90 x 114 cm printed in colours a couple of short closed tears pin holes in corners recently lined on paper and linen. First published in 1942 a second edition bears a new copyright date of 1944 in the lower margin; a third edition revised with a new title and a polar projection of the world inscribed the United Nations was issued in 1948. Commissioned by Time and Tide magazine a British literary and political review it is among the scarcest of Gills pictorial maps. Although Time and Tide attracted well known writers it never enjoyed a wide circulation and was heavily subsidised by its founder the former Suffragette and Lusitania survivor Viscountess Rhondda. The map celebrates the joint declaration released by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941 after the Atlantic Conference discussions between the two leaders held on board an American warship off the coast of Newfoundland. Both hoped to mobilise American support for intervention in the war and while this was not immediately forthcoming the Atlantic Charter was a gesture of solidarity at a moment when Nazi Germany had just turned against the USSR and looked all but unstoppable. In time it would form the basis for Allied war aims and the postwar foundation of the United Nations. At such a dark time Gills tone is resolutely optimistic looking ahead to a world of peace and plenty - the text of the charter itself illuminates the world with its rays. In the lower left hand corner is a modern interpretation of Isaiahs prophecy: they shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. A worker takes a sledgehammer to tanks and munitions in the foreground while in the distance is an idyllic scene of ploughing and reaping. The map is adorned with quotes by Cicero Emerson Pope and Aristotle on the virtues of peace and the body of the map is given over to the worlds resources agricultural and mineral which could once again be used for the prosperity of mankind distributed around the world by a network of shipping lanes. The creator of the map MacDonald Gill brother of Eric was a successful commercial artist in his own right and a noted calligrapher who designed the font used on all headstones by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. His arts and crafts style 1913 map of the London Wonderground commissioned by Frank Pick helped to popularise a whole new genre of pictorial map making on both sides of the Atlantic. Further work for London Transport included redesigning the map of the network in the early 1920s and other clients included the Post Office and the Empire Marketing Board. Map George Philip & Son, Ltd unknown
1931367779London: Jonathan Cape 1931. First edition. Extra-illustrated a with a proof wood-engraving "Mellors" by Eric Gill. With ten wood engravings by the author some full page with title page image repeated in red on front panel of jacket. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. A very good copy in soiled and torn dust jacket. Gill Eric. First edition. Extra-illustrated a with a proof wood-engraving "Mellors" by Eric Gill. With ten wood engravings by the author some full page with title page image repeated in red on front panel of jacket. 1 vols. 8vo. Clothes is dedicated "To Prudence" a.k.a. Prudence Pelham a young and beautiful sculptor/apprentice of Gill's to whom he was deeply attracted. Gill found her "stimulating and provocative as well as beautiful. She was then eighteen. He encouraged her interest in art. He indoctrinated her into the mysteries of the male anatomy; Eric Gill's was the first penis she had ever seen. She was a frequent visitor at the Pigotts of this period sometimes staying for a week or two working in the workshop alongside Gill's other pupils. She had that English aristocrat's informality. She responded easily to the unknown situation. This was one of the things Gill appreciated in her. He dedicated CLOTHES to her." MacCarthy Eric Gill pp. 250-251. The inscription on the flyleaf written in ink in Gill's beautiful lettering which shows the influence of Edward Johnston Gill's teacher: "P.P. from e.g. June 1931."<br /> <br /> Of more than passing interest is the Gill wood engraving "Mellors" which Prudence Pelham or Gill himself must have affixed to the rear endpaper. A fine view of a nude male in profile it was intended as an illustration to Lady Chatterly's Lover but according to Cleverdon's note was "never used in any edition." It was incorporated however as the frontispiece to Clothing Without Cloth published by the Golden Cockerel Press in June 1931 - the same date as this inscription to Pelham. According to Evan Gill the date of publication of Clothes was not until July 6 1931 - a month later. Gill Bibliography 22; Physick 727 engraving. Provenance: George Abrams; Felix Dennis Jonathan Cape unknown
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
186842756Paris, Imprimerie G. Towne, 1868-1876. 400 livraisons numérotées 1 à 400, 36 livraisons bis, 7 suppléments, reliés en 9 vol. in-folio, demi-tolie taupe, couvertures annuelles conservées (reliure de l'époque).
196043515Eureka CA: Hearse Press 1960. Fine. Eureka CA: Hearse Press 1960-1964. First Edition Limited to 150 copies. Quarto 28.5cm; publisher's woodgrain patterned card chemise titling in brown containing forty-two 42 broadsides and bifolium on different colored stock collated complete including a duplicate copy of Mason Jordan Mason's broadside "In the Park". Just a hint of shelf wear to chemise margins brief foxing to a couple broadsides else a Fine set.<br /> <br /> Contents include four early contributions by Charles Bukowski including "His Wife The Painter" "The Old Man on the Corner" "The Paper on the Floor" and "Waste Basket" all of which are signed. <br /> <br /> Krumhansl 14a-d. Hearse Press unknown
185128279Adelaide: Penman & Galbraith 1851. Print. An extraordinarily rare set of four of S. T. Gill's Adelaide views no. 1-3 i.e. Views in Adelaide No. 1. Hindley Street from King William St.; No. 2. Hindley Street Looking East; No. 3 Rundle Street Looking East; with a variant second copy of No. 3 which is black & white. The images are held at the Art Gallery of South Australia; the State Library of New South Wales the National Library of Australia and some a the City of Adelaide. There are tinted lithographs some with a tinted border others not and black & white lithographs as well. The street images appear to be the same in all the recorded prints consistent with these four- there are some minor variations which are noted. The three tinted lithographs are mounted on polished cloth. The period cloth mounting is unusual. It is not known if these were a reference set or perhaps proofs.<br /> <br /> Views in Adelaide No. 1./ Hindley Street from King William St./ Published by Penman & Galbraith Adelaide/ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ Signed in the stone S T G 1851. Tinted plate with no tinted border outline. Image 17.5 x 22.5 on paper 18 x 23.5 cm. AGSA 684G11; SLNSW nmQdoR5n. SLNSW image has tan border outline this copy does not. Mounted on cream cloth trimmed outside the catty corners with margins.<br /> <br /> Views in Adelaide No. 2./ Hindley Street Looking East/ Published by Penman & Galbraith Pirie St. Adelaide./ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ Signed in the stone S T G indistinct date. Tinted plate with a faint tinted border outline. Image 18 x 23.1 cm on paper 18.3 x 24 cm. AGSA 684G12; SLNSW 9PQ8kDxn; Nat Lib ID 7566602 Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK3544/B. Slt. foxing on left lower margin. Mounted on saffron cloth trimmed outside the catty corners with margins.<br /> <br /> Views in Adelaide No. 3/ Rundle Street Looking East/ Published by Penman & Galbraith Pirie St. Adelaide./ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ Signed in the stone S T G 1851 S inverted. Tinted plate with tinted border outline. Image 18 x 22.8 on paper 18.2 x 23.4 cm. AGSA B 2430; SLNSW Yj7djR39 for 3 print set which is colored and without border outlines. Mounted on saffron cloth trimmed outside the catty corners with margins.<br /> <br /> Views in Adelaide No. 3/ Rundle Street Looking East/ Published by Penman & Galbraith Pirie St. Adelaide./ On Stone by S. T. Gill/ Printed by Penman & Galbraith/ Signed in the stone S T G 1851 S inverted. Black and white plate with no tinted border outline. Image 18 x 22.2 on paper 20.9 x 25.8 cm. AGSA B 2430; NLA Lib ID 7566601 Nan Kivell NK3544/C. Printed on cream paper some watermarks.<br /> <br /> A rare set of images by one of the master artists of this period in Australia. Penman & Galbraith 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
19262626<p>Limited edition; 4to; original cream buckram and dust jacket. Edition of 250 copies this being number 57. Printed in red and black wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations by Gill. A fine copy end papers uncut and unopened dust jacket very slightly soiled and frayed at edges and wear to the extremities. Loosely inserted are a group of four wood-engravings from "Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi" comprising St. Mary Magdalen Physick 349 on japon inscribed by the artist in lower margin "Evan from Eric"; The Kiss of Judas 351 on wove paper with partial watermark inscribed by the artist in lower margin "Evan from Eric" spot within image; The Carrying of the Cross 352 on laid paper initialed by the artist and marked "proof" in lower margin; and an unsigned example of The Crucifixion 353. The wood-engravings come from the collection of Evan Gill the younger brother and biographer of the artist.</p> Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
1925154041Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press 1925. Gill's remarkable fusion of religious text with erotic illustration First Golden Cockerel edition number 246 of 750 copies. Of all the books Gill illustrated it was perhaps The Song of Songs which gave him the freest reign to explore the relationship of the erotic and the religious the fusion of which characterised his illustrations throughout his career. It stands among his most significant works. "The most important Golden Cockerel editions for which Eric Gill provided the engravings were The Song of Songs 1925 Troilus and Criseyde 1927 The Canterbury Tales 1928 and The Four Gospels of 1931 - Gill's and Gibbings's tour de force. No other wood-engraver of the period comes near to Gill's originality and verve. But once again the explicit eroticism of The Song of Songs and of Gill's later illustrations for E. Powys Mather's Procreant Hymn of 1926 shocked many of his former supporters and drew puzzled reproaches from the Dominicans" ODNB. Quarto. Text printed in red and black. With 19 wood-engraved illustrations throughout by Eric Gill. Original white cloth lettering to spine in gilt. With dust jacket. Corners slightly bumped browning to endpapers as usual a near-fine and sharp copy; dust jacket slightly toned with some minor foxing wear and minor loss to extremities short closed tear to front panel a very good example of a rare jacket. Chanticleer 31; Gill 275. hardcover
192421221691924. Ditchling Sussex: S. Dominic's Press. 1924. Large 4to. Original oatmeal cloth with exceedingly rare blue dust-jacket with woodcut of Virgin and Child to front lettered 'Wood-engravings: E. Gill'; ff. 36 comprising 34 wood engravings; title-page and two plates printed in red and black; dust-jacket with very light horizontal crease to upper edge of front cover spine slightly sunned a little spotting to cloth; very faint marginal toning; a very good copy; plate 'She Loves Me Not' numbered by hand in minute digits large bookplate of Andrew and Mary Henderson Bishop of Lanarkshire; a very good copy.A beautiful compendium of Gill's 1882-1940 wood engravings rare in the dust-jacket produced without his knowledge or consent by the printer and poet Douglas Pepler 1878-1951 Gill's artistic collaborator at the religious commune of artists at Ditchling Sussex and founder of St Dominic's Press no. IV of fifty numbered copies of an edition of 150. St Dominic's Press was the publishing arm of the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic in Ditchling; Pepler had moved there in 1915 to collaborate with Gill but financial disagreements between the two men contributed to Gill's decision to leave Ditchling for Capel-y-Ffin in 1924. Gill wanted to take the woodblocks for these engravings with him but Pepler considered them to be the property of the Dominican Order of which he was a lay member and for whom the works had been intended. He refused to let Gill take the blocks and instead produced this magnificent collection of images featuring the artist's characteristic mixture of the divine and the profane. Gill never spoke to Pepler again although Pepler's son David d. 1934 was married to Gill's daughter Betty. Provenance: With the bookplate of Andrew and Mary Henderson Bishop of Lanarkshire best known for lending their name to one of the most prestigious ladies' curling competitions in Scotland. Gill 410; Taylor & Sewell A129a. hardcover
192422644<p>London: Printed & Published by The Westminster Press 11 Henrietta Street Covent Garden W.C. 1924 but 1927. 750 by 945mm. 29.5 by 37.25 inches. Gill's humorous map of London and its Underground Stations Chromolithograph plan minor repairs to corners and old folds strengthened. Gill's humorous map of London and its underground stations. "During his lifetime MacDonald Gill's acclaim rested on artistic endeavours of amazing diversity; one area of particular celebrity involved the pictorial maps he designed for both governmental and private organisations. The first of these maps was commissioned in 1913 as a poster for use in the stations of the privately held Underground Electric Railways Company. The enthusiasm of the public for this poster was such that a smaller version titled the Wonderground Map of London Town was published for sale the following year. On the occasion of Gill's death in 1947 the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects referred to this Wonderground Map as "a cartographical masterpiece." Its groundbreaking design with emphasis on visual and verbal whimsy and bold primary colors awakened a generation of cartographers to the imaginative possibilities of pictorial mapmaking." Elizabeth Burden The text around the map reads: "The Heart of Britain's Empire Here is Spread Out for Your View. It Shows You Many Stations & Bus Routes Not a Few. You Have Not the Time to Admire it All Why not Take a Map Home to Pin on Your Wall." The current example dates from 1927 and bears to the upper left a greyhound above a sign 'On to Wembley'. This is a change from the lion featured in the previous edition of 1924 used to denote the location of The British Empire Exhibition of that year.</p> Printed & Published by The Westminster Press, 11 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.,
1934030438London: Faber & Faber Ltd 1934. Book. Illus. by Eric Gill. Fine. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Green cloth gilt. Dust jacket soiled and missing top edge half of rear and spine plus chipped at bottom. Despite the damaged jacket and slipcase the interior is remarkably clean and crisp with uncut pages. Slipcase heavily sunned damp stained and torn at head and heel. Contains many engravings protected by tissues. News article promoting a celebration of Gill's work as a typographer laid in. While Eric Gill was a renowned engraver and typographer many of his efforts are represented in this volume he is best known for his sculptures many of which can be seen on British buildings today. Faber & Faber Ltd Hardcover
38549London: Faber and Faber 1934. . Folio green cloth gilt b/w plates with tissue guards; the artist’s ink dedication inscription to front free endpaper pale foxing to prelims and fore-edges a very good copy in unclipped dust-jacket which has closed tears across spine and to folds over joints and slight wear to extremities housed in original green slipcase with printed label to front panel which is missing top panel and otherwise rather worn and marked now kept in fine purpose-made solander box with paper title label to spine. This volume was dedicated to Cliff Hoing a local artisan in West Wycombe an associate of Gill’s who was known to have undertaken work fretting out his wood engravings which were then filled with coloured gesso and sold. Inscription reads: ‘Cliff Hoing/from Eric Gill. Sept. 1934/with many thanks for his good work.’ London: Faber and Faber, 1934. hardcover
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
19281071741928. London: Lanston Monotype Corp. for Eric Gill 1928. <br /> <br /> Very slim small 8vo 17 3 pp. Original black buckram as new. Bookplate by David Jones of Walter Shewring.<br /> <br /> § 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. unknown
193112214Weimar: Cranach Presse 1931. 11 wood-engravings and 18 wood-engraved initials by Eric Gill. Jenson Antiqua type cut for the Press by E. Prince printed in red and black throughout. One of 200 paper copies out of a total edition of 268 numbered copies this no.41 and editions in French and German. Tall 8vo. original half parchment over buff paper boards spine lettered in gilt t.e.g. others uncut in original dust jacket spine of jacket a little darkened with a few tiny chips.t. An extraordinarily bright and fresh copy.A superb copy. Inserted loose is a 4 page list of former publications of the Cranach Press plus two prospectuses with an original Gill engraving one on paper and one on japon for the English edition distributed by Douglas Cleverdon.<br>Kessler seems to have got the very best out of Gill with a darker mood and deeper intensity in his engravings than was usual for the artist. Some of this is achieved by the style of printing but much must have been due to Kessler's tight control of the production and strong influence over Gill's work for it. The partnership produced a truly remarkable work of art. A bright copy with a list of former publications and prospectus for the English edition inserted loose Cranach Presse hardcover
193123238Weimar: Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter vellum and gilt lettered tan parchment boards. Fine in fine plain wrapper in matching fine board slipcase. 31 pages 26 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition copy 180 of 200 designed by Count Harry Kessler: printed in red and black in Jenson Antiqua on hand-made Maillol Kessler paper with watermark of the Cranach Press. 11 wood engraved illustrations seven are full page and 18 initials by Eric Gill. Laid-in "Former Publications Of The Cranach Press." which lists three tittles -- The Ecologues of Virgil Hamlet & The Duinese Elegies. An almost as new copy save for a few small toned fore-edge spots. THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK. 121. EVAN GILL 284. Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press hardcover
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>
1942145437London: George Philip & Son and Wellington A.H. & A.W. Reed 1942. Very Good. London George Philip & Son and Wellington A.H. & A.W. Reed 1942 Australasian issue. A colour lithographed map printed surface approximately 710 × 975 sheet size approximately 760 × 1020 mm folded into sixteenths as issued. Very slight wear and creases at the folds and edges; small light stain and short sealed split to one fold confined to the margin; an excellent copy unusually fresh and bright. This large pictorial map commemorates the joint declaration by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in August 1941 which outlined their shared aspirations for the world after the Second World War. Gill's design in his characteristic colourful and engaging style includes the text of the charter with facsimile signatures of Roosevelt and Churchill and presents in visual form its optimistic vision of a world united by trade and productive collaboration. In one corner a muscular labourer takes a sledgehammer to the machinery of war near a scroll containing a quotation from Isaiah 2:4: 'They shall beat their swords into plowshares .'. <p>The map can be found with several different imprints depending on the market for which it was printed. In addition to the usual imprint of George Philip & Son this example also carries the imprint of A.H. & A.W. Reed Wellington New Zealand presumably indicating that this version was produced for the Australasian market. <p>Macdonald Gill 1884-1947 British 'Mapmaker Graphic Designer Letterer & Architect . was commissioned by the Ministry of Information to design maps showing natural resources and to create graphics for several propaganda and military training films' Macdonald Gill website. He produced similar maps of the British dominions. George Philip & Son, and Wellington, A.H. & A.W. Reed unknown
1916157635Ditchling Sussex: Douglas Pepler and Eric Gill 1916. A working man is seen harnessed to a Devil-driven cart Second edition limited edition number 7 of 33 copies signed by Eric Gill. An exceptionally early and rare Gill title presenting seven wood-engravings first published within The Devil's Devices or Control verses Service a work by Douglas Pepler that was first published in 1915. Emblems Engraved on Wood was first printed in an edition of 15 copies in February 1916. This second edition limited to 33 copies was published in the same month. The woodcut illustrations comprise "Dumb-Driven Cattle" "Making the Best of It" "The Money Bag & The Whip" "The Purchaser" "The Happy Labourer" and "Hoc Signum Vincit". Each illustration is accompanied by explanatory text. The armorial bookplate engraved by Charles Thrupp Nightingale is for the Royal Navy Commander Frederick John Hancock Lloyd 1896-1982. Quarto. Woodcut device on title page enclosing the lettering HDCP EG 1915 together with six wood-engravings all by Eric Gill. Original brown wrappers front cover lettered in black rear cover lettered in black and red printed on Japanese paper. Bookplate of Frederick John Hancock Lloyd to inside of front wrapper. Wrappers worn with tears minor loss and spine split mild fading to front wrapper some light internal soiling minor abrasions to first leaf; a very good copy. cf Evan R. Gill Bibliography of Eric Gill 1953 260 see note on p. 86. unknown
19981734241998. ARTSCHWAGER Richard et al. Notes on a Room. Texts by Gini Alhadeff Brendan Gill and Daniel Halpern. Illustrated with 2 signed etchings by Richard Artschwager 2 signed woodcuts by Sol LeWitt and 3 offset lithographs of photographs by Louise Lawler. Folio loose as issue in the original board portfolio. New York: The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum 1998. In addition to being a handsome collection of prints all of which are signed by the artist the work is distinguished by having a particularly handsomely designed text. One of an edition of 130 copies with all the prints signed by the artist. Now rare probaly because most copies were dismembered. unknown
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
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
