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Gill, Eric. Art & Prudence; An Essay. Golden Cockerell Press, [Waltham St. Lawrence], 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo; two intaglio illustrations by Gill; 18pp; original orange buckram stamped in gilt on spine. One of 500 numbered copies in the edition, printed by Robert Gibbings. Extremities a bt rubbed, slightest lightening to spine, else fine without dust jacket
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Eric Gill. Art & Prudence, an Essay. The Golden Cockerel Press, Great Britain, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brick cloth, gilt spine title, top edge speckled & others untrimmed, & limited edition; A very good copy with no dust jacket; 18 pages. Size: 4.75"x7.75"
Seller: White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
Gill Eric.. Art & Prudence.. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1928., 1928.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Description: One of 500 numbered copies. Cloth, uncut, [5], 18, [1] pp., illustrated with 2 original, full-page engravings by Gill. Fine. CHANTICLEER 61.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. Art and Prudence - An Essay. Golden Cockerel Press, 1928.
Price: US$205.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, with dust-wrapper. 20 x 12cm. 18pp, [2]. Title page vignette and and two full page copper engravings by Gill. Number 59 of an edition of 500 copies. Dust-wrapper slightly chipped and rubbed. Book itself is an excellent copy with slightest wear only.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Eric Gill. ART & PRUDENCE An Essay. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Laurence, 1928.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Reddish orange buckram gilt, DW, narrow 8vo., (vi), 18, (2) pages. illustrated with two copper engravings by Eric Gill. One of 500 numbered copies printed from Caslon type on Batchelor Kelmscott handmade paper. Other than a small attractive inscription at the second front end-page, a fine copy in a near fine DW with only very minor edge wear, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric.. Art & Prudence, an essay.. Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Original orange buckram in a custom marbled chemise and slipcase, with lettering.Various inserts from sale catalogues of other copies laid in. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is no. 82. Illustrated with a wood-engraving (Physick, 382) and two copper engravings (Physick, 505 and 506) by Eric Gill. Evan Gill Bibliography, 15; Chanticleer, 61; Skelton, 8.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. ART & PRUDENCE: an essay. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928.
Price: US$367.56 + shipping
Description: Pp. [vi]+18+[2](colophon, blank), 2 copper engraved plates, title page vignette; narrow post 8vo; red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, the cloth slightly faded, edges a trifle rubbed; uncut; dust wrapper, faintly marked, slightly creased and split at top edge, tiny faded spot to bottom edge of back panel, the backstrip lightly faded and with a couple of small chips at head; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Chanticleer 61; Gill 15.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
GILL, ERIC.. Art & Prudence: An Essay. Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies; fine in a very good dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. Art and Prudence: an essay. Golden Cockerel Press, 1928.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A privately published essay on art originally delivered as a lecture by Eric Gill at Manchester University in 1928. Includes hand-written dedication message `With love from E. & M. Gill, Christmas 1928 (Pigotts, North Dean Bucks)` on the endpaper. Printed on 18 p. of handmade Kelmscott paper. Number 9 of 500 limited copies. Includes 2 leaves of copperplate engravings by Gill. Text in English. Original jacket has a few scratches and marks. Otherwise text in very good condition.
Seller: Kagerou Bunko (ABAJ, ILAB), Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: . [Golden Cockerel Press, association]. Ten Signed Original Wood Engravings. With Nine from "The Canterbury Tales" and One from "Troilus and Cresida" [n.p. n.d. c.a. 1928-1930]. Ten original wood engravings by Eric Gill for the publication of the Golden Cockerel Press's "The Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Cresida." Most are two wood engravings on a single sheet, numbered and signed by Gil. Nine sheets for "The Canterbury Tales" are uniformly matted, framed and glazed in slim gold frames. Frames measure: 14 3/4 x 11 inches; 375 x 278 mm. All are about fine. The single sheet from "Troilus and Cresida" is matted, framed and glazed in a slightly smaller slim black frame. Frame measures: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 311 x 237 mm. Some minor toning to mat and sheet to this single one. Still about fine. This set comprises: 1. Single sheet from page 98& 99 of "Troilus and Cresida" Girl turning into tree. [Skelton P456 and P457], on a single sheet, numbered 5/10, signed EricG. Visible image size: 190 x 130 mm. 2. First page of "The Clerk's Tale." page 113 of volume III. A Large initial "S" and a figure holding a broom in a tree. [Skelton P656], 1930, numbered 8/10, signed EricG. Visible image size: 225 x 165 mm. 3. Spray of eight leaves and four flowers [Skelton P538] & Spray of twelve triple-lobed leaves. [Skelton P538], 1928. Found first on pages 3 and 4 of volume I, and repeated again throughout. On a single sheet, numbered 9/10, signed EricG. Visible image size: 227 x 122 mm. 4. Child crawling at foot of spray [Skelton P544], 1928; & Child Peeping [Skelton P546], 1928. Found on pages 65 and 67 of volume I and repeated again throughout. On a single sheet, numbered 10/10, signed Eric G. Visible image size: 235 x 134 mm. 5. Nun blowing Kiss. [Skelton P533], 1928, & Cherub on Branch. [Skelton P534], 1928. Found first in pages 8 and 9 of volume I and repeated again throughout. On a single sheet, numbered 6/10, signed EricG. Visible image size: 220 x 130 mm. 6. Spray of eight leaves. [Skelton P521], 1928, & Naughty Boy Climbing, [Skelton P522]. Found first on pages 12 and 45 of volume I, and repeated again throughout. on a single sheet, numbered 4/10, signed EricG. Visible image size: 217 x 130 mm. 7. Tree Woman. [Skelton P517, 1928; & Spray of fifteen leaves [Skelton P518], 1928. First found on pages 34 and 35 of volume I and repeated again throughout. On a single sheet, numbered 3/10, signed EricG. Visible image size: 210 x 125 mm. 8. Man waving eight-leaved spray. [Skelton P529], 1928, & Man waving ten-leaved spray. [Skelton P530], 1928. First found on pages 26 and 27 of volume I, and repeated again throughout. On a single sheet, numbered 4/10, signed EricG. Visible image size: 225 x 130 mm. 9 & 10. [2 copies of]: St Thomas of Canterbury. [Skelton P519], 1928, & Crucifix on Tree, [Skelton P520], 1928. First found on pages 24 and 25 of volume I and repeated again throughout. On a single sheet, numbered 4/10 and 5/10, signed EricG. Visible image size: 218 x 130 mm. "Most of the borders are leaf and stem, but among the leaves, hiding or beckoning, climbing or leaning out, are girls and men, kings and boys, priests and nuns who take part or seem to be commenting upon the stories.the pattern continues, affectionate and cheeky, erotic, enjoyable and relevant, decorative and explanatory, a balance of taste and eye. Borders are repeated, sometimes in new combinations. One other quality in these borders should be noticed- their mannerism, the distortion of human figures sometimes so that they almost share the forms of leaf and stem- and sometimes grow from them. It is another, rather touching aspect of Gill's idea and all these manners work towards a single art- the poetry, people, leaves, decoration and explanation." (Colin Franklin, The Private Presses, pp. 143-144). Gill. Skelton. HBS 68919. $3,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$28600.00 + shipping
Description: 365 x 242 mm. (14 1/4 x 9 1/2"). 202 pp., [1] leaf.Translated by Gerhart Hauptmann. FINE ORIGINAL BURNT ORANGE MOROCCO by O. Dorfner of Weimar (signed on rear turn-in), covers with single gilt-ruled border, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, gilt spine titling, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In a fine matching morocco-lipped slipcase lined with fleece. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts in the text by Edward Gordon Craig; this copy WITH TWO FULL-SIZE VELLUM LEAVES CONTAINING PRINTED WOODCUTS AND SIGNED BY CRAIG laid in. Printed in red and black. With the Hamlet stories from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest in Latin and French in margins surrounding the text. With Prospectus laid in at front. Schröder, p. 9; Franklin, p. 164; Ransom, p. 253; "A Century for the Century" 21 (English version). âSpine gently and evenly sunned to a less reddish brown, traces of white residue from leather preservative to front board, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, the binding unworn, and IMMACULATE INTERNALLY. A deservedly famous combination of visual daring, printing artistry, and textual scholarship, this is one of the major achievements of private press printing. Undertaken in what Franklin calls "a perfectionist spirit," the book brings together the most glittering names in English and German private printing at the time. In addition to the presence of the woodcuts by Craig, the typographical arrangement of the volume was done by Count Harry Kessler, the title was cut by Eric Gill, the type (in 18-, 12-, and 10-point black letter) was designed by Edward Johnston after that used by Fust and Schoeffer in their Mainz Psalter of 1457, and was cut by Edward Prince (completed after his death by G. T. Friend), and the paper was made by a process devised jointly by Kessler and Aristide and Gaspard Maillol. Franklin says that "anybody who examines the Cranach Press 'Hamlet' must agree it is worthy of its reputation. The paper, superficially like Bachelor's Kelmscott, seems softer and more friendly, appropriate for the expressionist style of Craig's woodcuts. . . . These designs, and Gill's in the Golden Cockerel Chaucer, form the bravest artistic adventure among all private press books." It is increasingly difficult to find well preserved copies of this title, especially in Otto Dorfner bindings. Master binder Dorfner (1885-1955) taught at the School of Applied Arts in Weimar and at the Bauhaus school before founding his own to teach the craft. He was awarded a number of international awards for his bindings, and is particularly noted for his work with the Cranach Press. Dorfner was held in high enough esteem to merit inclusion on the Nazi's"Gottbegnadeten List"("God-gifted list" or "Important Artist Exempt List") of artists essential to Nazi culture. This 36-page list, assembled in September 1944 byJoseph Goebbels andAdolf Hitler, exempted the named artists from mobilization in the final stages of World War II. No. 8 OF 230 COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER, of a total edition of 255.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.