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Price: US$1495.00 + shipping
Description: 43 pages. 26 1/2 x 20 cm. Twenty wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed in black and red in Caslon O.F. Limited edition, copy 441 of 750 on Batchelor hand-made paper. CHANTICLEER 31. Humbert Wolfe in his Introduction to "Chanticleer." notes, "The type and paper of `The Song of Songs' are both beyond praise. GILL 275. Mostly unopened, spine darkened, covers a bit dusty, interior contents immaculate. Orig. white buckram spine lettered in gilt. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Eric Gill. Song of Songs. Golden Clockerel Press, 1925.
Price: US$1639.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eric Gill. The Song of Songs, called by many the Canticle of Canticles.1925 19 wood engravings by Eric Gill. Limited Edition. One of 750 copies. This being number 54. Printed in black and red in Caslon Old Face type. Pp. 44. 4to., original white buckram. Gilt lettering to spine in gilt. Without dust jacket. Text printed in red and black. With 19 wood-engraved illustrations throughout by Eric Gill. Of all the books Gill illustrated, it was perhaps The Song of Songs which gave him the free 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. Gill's and Gibbings's tour de force. No other wood-engraver of the period comes near to Gill's originality and verve. Some soiling to one corner of front board. Wood engravings are very clean beautiful and strong. Text clean and fresh. Tight copy. A rare and sought after Golden Cockerel Press item. Wonderfully illustrated by Eric Gill Direct Orders welcome.
Seller: PETER FRY (PBFA), Grange- over -Sands, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$2875.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto. 42pp. One of 750 numbered copies. Illustrated with seventeen wood engravings by Eric Gill. Several initials in red. This is bibliographer and book historian John Carter's copy, with his booklabel on lower front pastedown. A fine copy in white cloth, gilt lettered to spine. Includes the scarce dust jacket illustrated with a Gill engraving repeated from the title page. Jacket shows some foxing, especially to font panel and lacks most of the spine. With the exception of some offsetting to the endleaves, the book is bright and clean. (Gill 275; Cave 31).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3842.59 + shipping
Description: 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). Chanticleer 31; Gill 275. Quarto. Original white cloth, lettering to spine in gilt. With dust jacket. Text printed in red and black. With 19 wood-engraved illustrations throughout by Eric Gill. 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.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: 42 [2] pp. 4to, publisher's white cloth, in publisher's clear mylar wrapper and a custom slipcase. First edition; No. 18 of 30 copies hand-colored by Eric Gill; signed by Eric Gill and Robert Gibbings. A beautiful copy. The mylar is a little rippled with a few tiny spots to the rear panel. See Chanticleer #31.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.