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Gill, Eric. ART & LOVE. DOUGLAS CLEVERDON, Bristol, 1927.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing. Hardcover. 8'' X 4 7/8''. 26pp. plus original copper engravings by Eric Gill. This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press. The edition is limited to 260 copies, this is number 160 and Signed by Eric Gill. Discoloration to black cloth. Toning to endpapers.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 119/225 COPIES (from an overall edition of 260 copies) printed on Batchelor's handmade paper and signed by the author/illustrator, title with wood-engraved device, 6 full-page copperplate-engravings by Gill, small spot at upper fore-corner through 4 leaves, pastedown with gilt morocco bookplate, featuring bird of paradise, of C.S. Barlow, pp. [vi], 26, foolscap 8vo, original black buckram, backstrip gilt lettered, edges slightly rubbed, backstrip a little faded, small mark on rear board, rough-trimmed, a few spots on lower and fore-edge, very good. Printed by Robert Gibbings, not as a Golden Cockerel edition (though the cockerel device appears on the colophon leaf), but for the 24-year old Cleverdon, for whose bookshop signs Gill also designed a font which would later become Gill Sans. The engravings include several of Gill's most celebrated including 'Adam and Eve in Heaven.' and 'For dignity and adornment.' Charles Sydney Barlow, founder of the South African company Barlow Rand, was a cricketer (for Cambridge and Somerset), noted anti-apartheid campaigner and environmentalist, with three species of bird to his name. (Gill, Corey & Mackenzie 14)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Number 91 of 225 (260) copies handset in Caslon, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper and signed by the author/illustrator. 6 full-page copper-plate engravings. Black buckram with gilt spine titling, edges uncut, a trifle worn at extremities. A very good copy indeed. Gibbings declined to publish 'Art and Love' under the Golden Cockerel imprint, apparently because of its overtly Catholic character (Gill had originallyhad scruples about working for Gibbings because he was not a Catholic). It was taken up by David Cleverdon, then a young bookseller in Bristol, who thus found himself becoming a publisher as well. This was a fruitful friendship for Gill. Gill had painted Cleverdon's shop fascia in a sans-serif letter, originally developed for signs at Capel-y-ffin, which impressed Stanley Morison and thus became the prototype of 'Gill Sans'.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$609.31 + shipping
Description: pp. (iv) blank, (viii), 26, (i) blank, (i) colophon, (iv) blank. 6 engraved plates by Gill. Black buckram, trifle faded and toned at spine ends and edges, uncut, first three and last bifolia unopened, a very good copy, inscribed at the front -'To Joan from Purcell with love On the Day of Renewal. Dec.31st 1939', bookseller's ticket on rear paste-down.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Eric Gill. Art and Love. Douglas Clarendon, 1927.
Price: US$641.38 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Gills exquisitely-produced and illustrated essay on the two things that make him famous and notorious: art, in which his work remains some of the best of 20th century Britain, and love, in which his paedophilia, incest and beastiality are impossible to forgive. This is a Fine, or very near it, 1st edition, number 26 of 35 specially-bound copies from a larger edition of 260, published by Douglas Clarendon and Golden Cockerel Press in 1927, and is signed by the artist. Lacking the 6 loose plates supplied with the edition.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
GILL Eric.. Clothes. For Dignity and Adornment.. , 1927.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: Proof copper engraving, no.15 of 15 copies signed by Gill, of an illustration for Art & Love, printed at the Golden Cockerel Press for Douglas Cleverdon, 1928. Mounted, framed & glazed. Engraved area 11.5 x 7cm. Frame size 36.5 x 26.5cm. VG. [Physick 483; Gill, Corey & Mackenzie 14]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
ERIC GILL. With Ritual Chant, Signed and numbered.. Self Published, 1927.
Price: US$1218.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A copper engraving signed 'Eric G' and numbered 1 of 15 copies. Printed on fine laid paper. Mounted with see through corner tabs. Printed in 1927. Two small fox marks within the image else very good.Image/ Block size 11.2 x 6.8 cm (4.5 x 2.75 inches)sheet size 19 x 15.4cm (7.5 x 6 inches) )Felix Dennis (1949-2014) Collection: Felix Dennis was an English publisher, poet, spoken-word performer and philanthropist. His company, Dennis Publishing, pioneered computer and hobbyist magazine publishing in the United Kingdom. One of the three editors of Oz Magazine.Physick 482. (199) Proof for an illustration, after an Indian drawing , to face page 12 of Art and Love by the artist, printed by the Golden Cockerel Press, for Douglas Cleverdon, 1928. Physick also states that the artist had priced the set of 6 at £6.6s. Gill was fascinated by Indian temple sculptures. He and Jacob Epstein planned to build a monument in the Sussex countryside a hand craved monument imitating the structures at Gwalior Fort in Madhya Pradesh.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: 2 pp., in green ink. 4to. With architectural drawings and referencing Troilus & Criseyde. Gill writes to his friend, J.G. Wilson of the Bumpus Bookshop in London, regarding his engraving, "Flying Buttresses," mentioning his work on Troilus & Criseyde for the Golden Cockerel Press, and mentioning another of his publishers. An excellent technical letter with 5 small drawings in the text. In part: "I am working like anything on the engravings for the Golden Cockerel Troilus & Criseyde. I expect to finish the engravings by about Easter . I shall come and see you as soon as possible to talk over things and explain how it happened that D. Cleverdon is publishing my next . Meanwhile this is just to make a brief apology for myself in the matter of the Buttresses! Is matter of fact they aren't so blooming wrong in the engraving as your correspondent thinks. It's the perspective which makes the difficulty." The engraving in question is "Flying Buttresses," based on a drawing of St. Pierre, Chartes, used to illustrated Gill's 1926 essay "Id Quod Visum Placet." Gill uses the rest of the letter to explain, with the aid of five small sketches, why the perspective is in fact correct. Douglas Cleverdon, the Bristol bookseller and publisher, brought out Gill's Art and Love in 1927, as well as a collection of his engravings in 1929. Some wrinkling, closed tear to blank margin, slight toning, old folds
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: Small Folio, 309 (1) pages. 32 x 20 cm. Limited editions, copy 107 of 225, (six copies on vellum), Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs, Pressman: A.C. Cooper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in same pattern style covers as The Canterbury Tales. Five full-page plates, sixty decorative borders and four tail pieces by Eric Gill. Printed in blue, red and black in Caslon Old Face type on Kelmscott hand-made paper. It is the first and considered the scarcest and the first of the three books produced by Gill and Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, having a relatively small limitation as the Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels (Edition of 500 copies). CHANTICLEER 50. GILL. 279. CAVE & MANSON. pp. 50 ff. RANSOM, p. 297. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, slight wear at corners, interior contents very bright, clean and fresh. Orig. quarter morocco spine and patterned boards. Teg. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.