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Christopher Skelton. The Engravings Of Eric Gill (Prospectus + Promotional Letter +Order Form + Standing Order Form) + "Three Private Presses (Brochure/Order Form). Skelton's Press Limited, Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 5 Items, All Fine, With Mailing Envelope With Skelton's Press Ltd. Mailing Label.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Gill, Eric. The Engravings of Eric Gill.. Chales Skelton,, 1983.

Price: US$259.91 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First thus. The Engravings of Eric Gill, from an edition of 1350 limited to copies, illustrations by Eric Gill, some in colour or folding, original blind-stamped cloth, slipcase, Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983, folio. Fine copy in a Fine original slipcase

Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom

. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton, Skelton's Press, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, 1983.

Price: US$285.90 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Quarto, 24 preliminary pages, 545 pages, reproductions of engravings including 3 folding plates, book in fine condition in cloth binding, embossed decoration on front board, with near fine slipcase( some marks, one stain and a scrape), one of 1350 copies of the ordinary edition printed on Mohawk Superfine Text and bound by Smith Settle. Heavy book (4 kilos) - additional shipping will be requested for all destinations out-with the United Kingdom.

Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom

(GILL, Eric). SKELTON, Christopher (Editor). The Engravings of Eric Gill. Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Description: First edition. One of 1,350 copies. 4to. xxiv, 545, (3) pp. Original two-tone cloth, with one of Gill's illustrations blindstamped to the upper cover, slipcase. With over 1,000 examples of Gill's work - several folding. An attractive copy. Compiled by Gill's nephew, this brings together a lifetime's work, from the well known and celebrated, such as his designs for the Golden Cockerel Press books, to more ephemeral items such as designs for rubber stamps, Christmas cards and bookplates.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

Eric Gill. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton,Publisher, 1983.

Price: US$337.88 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: Limited to 1350 copies. Large 4to. Profusely illustrated with Gill's engravings. Hardcover housed in near fine slipcase. Folio, spine bound in cream cloth with black cloth boards. Book Like New with slipcase with is near fine condition. Beautiful book. Provenance: From the Turbutt collection, family discovered the original copy of the first folio of Shakespeare.

Seller: Holt Art Books, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Gill (Eric) & Christopher Skelton.. The Engravings of Eric Gill. [Facsimile reproductions of all the known engraved work - over 1000 prints - with an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon, a survey of Gill's work as an engraver, a descriptive index and a check list of books containing engravings.]. Royal 4to, 545pp., Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983., 1983.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: One of 1350 (1430) standard copies. Some reproductions in colour. Cloth over blind-stamped boards, spine blocked in gold. Slipcase. A fine copy. Essentially a fully illustrated companion to John Physick's 'Catalogue of the Engraved Work of Eric Gill'.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

Christopher Skelton. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Skelton's Press, Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition limited to 1350 copies. This is a beautiful copy. Essentially mint, looks unopened, in Fine minus slipcase.(One small dent to rear edge). Fresh, clean and bright. All corners sharp. Cream cloth spine with black cloth boards. Front board blindstamped with Eric Gill's 'Three Nudes' design. In the green slip case with black cloth top and base. Christopher Skelton was Eric Gill's nephew. Includes a complete list of Gill's engravings including a bibliography. Illustrated with over 1000 engravings. Note: This is a heavy book weighing over 4kg.Extra postage will be required for orders from outside UK.

Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom

Gill, Eric. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton, 1983.

Price: US$395.75 + shipping

Description: 1983. Folio, dec. cloth in publisher's slipcase. Except for a few minor bumps to egdes of slipcase, a fine copy.

Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

GILL Eric. The Engravings of Eric Gill. , 1983.

Price: US$421.05 + shipping

Description: Reproducing the wood-engravings of Gill. One of 1350 copies. Large 4to., original cream cloth backed, black cloth boards, decorated in in blind on the upper panel, lettered in gilt on the spine. Original black cloth and green paper slipcase. Wellingborough, Christopher Skelton. A fine copy, but for some light marking to the lower cover.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

Gill, Eric. The engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$437.50 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 1435 copies, this one of 1350 on Mohawk Superfine, large 4to, pp. xxiv, 545, [3]; contains reproductions of 1074 of Gill's wood engravings, 3 folding plates, some of the illustrations are in color; fine copy in original cream shelf-backed black cloth boards embossed with a Gill image of three nudes, publisher's slipcase. A virtually complete catalogue of all Gill's wood engravings, notes by the publisher, and "Eric Gill: A Personal Record by Douglas Cleverdon." With a publisher's slip laid in, as issued, regarding the binding structure.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Skelton, Christopher (Editor). The Engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: 572 pages. 35 x 27 cm. Limited edition, one of 1350 copies on Mohawk Superfine Text. Richly illustrated in black and white and color. List of Engravings Additional to the V&A Catalogue. Cross Reference List of Engraving Numbers. Selected Sources and Bibliography. Check List of Books Containing Engravings. Index. Most of the reproductions in this volume are in their original dimensions. Features many rare variant states of the prints, which are kept together by group. More than 1000 reproductions including three folding plates with two publisher's prospectus laid-in. Introductory essay by Douglas Cleverdon, and this comprehensive survey by his nephew, Christopher Skelton. Orig. cream cloth spine and black cloth covers decorated in blind. Fine in fine slipcase

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Skelton, Christopher. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Wellingborough; Skelton's Press Limited;, 1983.

Price: US$454.84 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. One of 1350 copies. Large format. Fine in black boards with tooling to the front panel with cream cloth spine bearing gilt titles. Contained in bespoke slipcase.

Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom

Gill, Eric. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton, Northamptonshire, 1983.

Price: US$463.94 + shipping

Description: 440mm x 350mm (17" x 14"). 545pp. Over 1000 facsimile prints - the complete collection of Eric Gill's work. A beautiful collection of Eric Gill's work. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Near fine : in near fine condition without dust jacket as issued and in slipcase

Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom

Skelton, Christopher. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Wellingborough; Skelton's Press Limited;, 1983.

Price: US$487.33 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. One of 1350 copies. Large format. Fine in black boards with tooling to the front panel with cream cloth spine bearing gilt titles. Contained in bespoke slipcase. Prospectus and other related material laid in including a signed letter from Christopher Skelton.

Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom

GILL, ERIC. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$530.70 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 4to. White cloth spine, black cloth to boards; gilt title to spine. Front board with blind stamped pictorial, in special cloth and paper covered slipcase.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Christopher Skelton [ed.]. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$539.31 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An impressive first edition of this celebration of the engravings of Eric Gill, housed in the original slipcase and with numerous pieces of publisher's ephemera included. The first edition of this work, a limited edition with only 1350 copies produced, housed in the publisher's slip case.An impressive work consisting of over 1,000 illustrations, reproductions of the work of English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker Eric Gill, associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. Most of the reproductions in this volume are here in their original dimensions, with further rare variant states of the prints also present, alongside a number of folding plates.Gill's prints are accompanied by an essay titled 'Eric Gill: A Personal Record' from Douglas Cleverdon.This work was edited and published by Gill's nephew, Christopher Skelton. With fourteen loosely inserted pieces of ephemera from the publisher, including numerous order forms, two illustrated advertisement brochures and a press release concerning the work, addressed 'to all booksellers'. In the publisher's original cloth binding with Gill's 'Three Female Nudes' print blind stamped to front board, with slip case. With a small number of light spots to back strip and head of text block. Slip case in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

. THE ENGRAVINGS OF ERIC GILL. Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Folio. xxiv, 545p, colophon. Fully illustrated. Includes "Eric Gill: A Personal Record by Douglas Cleverdon" and "Gill the Engraver: A Survey", as well as appendices and check list, &c. Bound in the publisher's gilt-titled quarter white cloth over black cloth sides, the upper cover with an illustration of three nudes stamped in blind, housed in a slip case.

Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.

(GILL, Eric). SKELTON, Christopher (Editor). The Engravings of Eric Gill. Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983.

Price: US$974.66 + shipping

Description: First edition. One of 1,350 copies. 4to. xxiv, 545, (3) pp. Bespoke binding of two-tone leather with black morocco to the spine and fore edges with stylised gilt lettering and inlaid morocco flowers of differing colours, the central sections of the both boards in cream morocco and further inlaid morocco flowers and blind tooled stems and leaves, marbled endpapers. With over 1,000 examples of Gill's work - several folding. Slight waviness to the foot of the contents and a little spotting to the edges, a delightful example in a unique binding. Compiled by Gill's nephew, this brings together a lifetime's work, from the well known and celebrated, such as his designs for the Golden Cockerel Press books, to more ephemeral items such as designs for rubber stamps, Christmas cards and bookplates.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

Gill, Eric. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton, 1983.

Price: US$1039.64 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardbacks, quarter morocco with a slipcase. Two volumes plus a portfolio. 35 x 27cm. Number 25 of 85 special copies, with 8 additional woodcut prints taken from the original woodblocks, each window-mounted as issued. Loosely inserted a folded copy of the original prospectus. Slight fading and marking to spines. Contents clean and unmarked. A very good copy.

Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom

Gill, Eric. The Engravings of Eric Gill -- 2 Vols + Portfolio of drawings in Slipcase. Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$1299.55 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Please note that this is a very heavy item and will require extra postage.; Vols 1+ 2: Morocco spine, heavy brown cloth boards, clean and bright. Gilt titling bright. Portfolio of 8 loose prints taken from the artist's wood blocks. All contained in brown, cloth slipcase. This is no 24 of 85 special numbered sets printed on St Cuthbert's Mill archival rag paper, with portfolio of 8 prints. There are one or two minor scuffs on the slipcase, perhaps only to be expected, but it is otherwise unworn, and the volumes and portfolio are all Near Fine. ; 4to (11" x 14"); 545 pages

Seller: Walden Books, London, United Kingdom

GILL, Eric. The Engravings of Eric Gill.. Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983., 1983.

Price: US$1382.72 + shipping

Description: Folio. 2 volumes, plus portfolio of engravings. Original morocco backed buckram in slipcase. A Fine copy in very slightly marked slipcase. This special edition, number 49 of 85 copies is accompanied by a separate portfolio of 8 engravings printed from the original woodblocks. This magnificent collection contains over 1,000 illustrations.

Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom

Gill, Eric. The Engravings. Wellingborough, Christopher Skelton, 1983., 1983.

Price: US$1429.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 3 volumes in slipcase. 1st ed. in this form. 34.0 x 26.0 cms. Limited ed. This number 25 of 85 special copies with an additional suite of 8 wood engravings printed from the original blocks. Vol 1 Pp. xxiv, 256, vol 2 Pp. (ii), 257-545, (2). Vol 3 is portfolio of loose engravings. Vols 1 and 2 in 1/4 morocco with gilt lettering and cloth-covered boards. The three vols are contained in cloth bound slipcase. With it the original prospectus. A little faded to portfolio spine, couple of very small marks to spines, but remains an excellent copy. (AN24)

Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom

GILL Eric. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Volume I: Engravings P1 - P548 (1907-1928); Vol. II: Engravings P549 - P993 (1928-1940). [With separate portfolio of 8 prints taken from the original wood-blocks, plus facsimile sheet of Gill's handwriting.] 85 COPIES WERE PRINTED; WITH PORTFOLIO OF PRINTS. Christopher Skelton,, 1983.

Price: US$1611.44 + shipping

Description: Together 3 vols., folio, First Edition, on rag paper, with illustrated titles in green and black, and over 1000 fine reproductions (a number folding or full-page; several tinted); main volumes in burgundy hessian, morocco backs lettered in gilt, burgundy endpapers, Portfolio in matching hessian, backstrips mildly age-faded, all near fine copies housed in publisher's board slip-case with extraction ribbon. EDITION LIMITED TO 85 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY No. 77). With two review cuttings loosely inserted.

Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Skelton, Christopher. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Christopher Skelton Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$1754.39 + shipping

Description: 4to. 2 volumes with portfolio, set. Limited edition. #52 of 85 special copies printed on St. Cuthbert's Mill archival rag paper and bound in quarter leather, gilt, with cloth boards by Desmond Shaw of Cambridge. The cloth portfolio contains 8 prints taken from the original wood-blocks. Cloth and paper-covered slipcase. Over 1,000 engravings described and illustrated. All wood engravings in actual sizes and, where called for, in colour taken from the best available prints. More than 80 not included in Physick's catalogue raisonne appear here. Slight tanning of the leather spines (as usual). With the ex libris of the subscriber, Harold Hugo, on the front pastedown of both volumes and the inside cover of the portfolio. Small bump to one of the top back corners of the slipcase not affecting the books, otherwise a fine, fresh set. Ephemera loosely inserted in this copy include the author's 4 page flyer for the book, copies of Harold Hugo's letter and order reserving a special copy and Skelton's progress report followed by a letter explaining and apologising for the delay in producing the book.

Seller: Anthony Smith Books, London, LND, United Kingdom

(GILL, ERIC). THE ENGRAVINGS OF ERIC GILL. Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983.

Price: US$2028.00 + shipping

Description: 349 x 267 mm. (13 3/4 x 10 1/2"). Two volumes plus portfolio. Publisher's deluxe biscuit-colored morocco over reddish-brown linen, flat spines with gilt titling. In the original slipcase. Profusely illustrated with more than 1,000 reproductions of Gill's works; THIS SPECIAL COPY ACCOMPANIED BY A PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT ENGRAVINGS PRINTED DIRECTLY FROM THE ORIGINAL WOODBLOCKS. Front pastedowns with bookplate of Haven O'More, the Garden Collection. ◆In pristine condition. This is the deluxe copy of a comprehensive survey of Gill's work as an engraver and typecutter, prepared as a labor of love by his nephew, Christopher Skelton. Glaister describes Eric Gill (1882-1940) as "an English craftsman, engraver, type designer, sculptor, and philosopher whose influence on contemporary book production has been profound and world-wide." Gill studied lettering as a young man under Edward Johnston, then for five years, beginning in 1905, designed and engraved title pages and initials for books printed by Count Harry Kessler at Insel Verlag, Leipzig (Kessler would go on to found the Cranach Press in 1913). Later, Gill did a great deal of woodcut illustration for other private press publications, especially the Golden Cockerel Press (including memorable work for the famous "Four Gospels," "Troilus and Criseyde," and "Canterbury Tales"). The 993 illustrations in the body of the present offering and the 51 in the appendix include all of the wood engravings from those works, as well as Gill's other book illustrations, individual engravings, typefaces, Christmas cards, and bookplates. The subjects, for the most part, are either religious or erotic--and sometimes, controversially, both. The portfolio prints are "A Garden Enclosed," "Self-portrait," "Surrexit Alleluia," "Tree and Dog with Flames," "St. Thomas's Hands," "Girl with a Mirror," "I Am a Little World," and "Man and Woman Embracing." Skelton (1925-92) learned printing from Gill's son-in-law René Hague, and operated a private press from 1968 to 1985. This is the magnum opus of that workshop. This copy comes from the Garden Collection, assembled by Haven O'More with funding from Michael Davis, which was the most outstanding library of notable books put together in America in the second half of the 20th century. When it was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1989, the sale brought in $16.2 million. The library included high spots from all periods (the four Shakespeare folios, the first of "Don Quixote," and Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" brought in more than $5 million alone), and the collection was breathtaking in its impeccable condition. No. 4 OF 85 SPECIAL COPIES printed on archival rag paper (and 1,350 copies of the ordinary edition.).

Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.