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Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: String-bound within decorated paper-covered boards, four French-folded pages. Wood engraved letters ER at title. Prospectus for Typography by Eric Gill, with specimen of pages 8 & 9 and a discussion of the book on the final page. One of 300 copies printed in Joanna types by Hague & Gill on December 29, 1930. A clean, very good copy with faint old water-stain along the bottom margin.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Prospectus only, duodecimo size, [4] pp. "TYPOGRAPHY" was the first book printed at Pigotts, the partnership between renowned printer and artist Eric Gill (1882-1940) and Rene Hague, his daughter Joanna's husband. The prospectus includes a reproduction of p. 37 and a short essay on typography in the arts-and-crafts mode. ___DESCRIPTION: Cream-coloured sheet folded once to make four pages, printed in black, with wood engraving by Gill, "Tree and Dog" (P734) on the front page; duodecimo size (7.5" by 5"). ___CONDITION: Near fine, clean, with only very slight wear to the edges. ___CITATION: Gill no. 21. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Prospectus only, octavo size, [4] pp. "TYPOGRAPHY" was the first book printed at Pigotts, the partnership between renowned printer and artist Eric Gill (1882-1940) and Rene Hague, his daughter Joanna's husband; this prospectus includes a reproduction of pp. 8-9, and a short essay on typography in the arts-and-crafts mode. ___DESCRIPTION: Off-white sheet folded twice to make four pages, printed in black; duodecimo size (7.5" by 5"). ___CONDITION: Fine, clean and without wear. ___CITATION: Gill no. 21. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$549.06 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: "There are twenty-five examples of letterforms in the text, four of which are printed from wood engravings, ranging from Janson to Baskerville to Gill's own Joanna slab serif type. The text is printed on specially hand-made paper of a handsome stone color, bearing Gill's and Hague's initials in the watermark." Text: Gill Eric. pp. 120; BW ills.; hardcover w/o dj, fine condition of the first edition of this rare item.
Seller: A&M Bookstore / artecontemporanea, Milano, MI, Italy
Gill, Eric. An Essay on Typography.. Sheed & Ward, London, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$596.67 + shipping
Description: First edition. (3), 121, (1) pp. Illustrated. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pages uncut. Upper corner of rear board just slightly bumped, else fine. Condition Near Fine. Signed by Eric Gill and the printer René Hague on the colophon page. First edition of this classic work on typography by renowned British typographer and sculptor Eric Gill, creator of the typeface Gill Sans. Printed by René Hague and Eric Gill at Pigott's, Buckinghamshire, June 1931 in an edition of 500 copies, signed by the author and printer on the colophon page.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: US$702.79 + shipping
Description: Cloth, 8vo, 120 pp, 25 fig.; -slightly browned, near fine copy. Signed by Eric Gill and Rene Hague on the collophone.
Seller: Antiquariat Atlas, Einzelunternehmen, Hamburg, Germany
Gill, Eric. An Essay On Typography. Sheed & Ward, London, 1931.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: 120 pages. 19.5 x 13 m. Limited edition one of 500 signed by Eric Gill and Rene Hague. Wide text margins and graphic examples of type and alphabetical examples, and pictorial colophons. Clean, very fresh copy. Orig. dark salmon cloth. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
GILL, Eric. An Essay on Typography. London: Messrs. Sheed & Ward, 1931.
Price: US$1019.23 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, one of 500 copies signed by both Gill and Hague on the limitation page. Small 8vo. (4), 120, (2) pp. Original red buckram, gilt lettered to spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 25 figures representing typographical examples, mostly set into the text. Some marking to the uncommon jacket, a little more so to the spine and rear panel, a little light edge wear, very good overall. Printed by René Hague & Eric Gill at the latter's residence, Piggotts, near Hughenden, Buckinghamshire. Evan Gill, 21.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. Signed by Rene Hague and Eric Gill on the limitation page. Handmade paper watermarked 'ER.' Duodecimo (12mo). [7pp., blanks] 120pp. + 21 figures, 4 engravings on wood. [Evan Gill, 21]. A classic in the history of typography and the greatest explication of Gill's thought. Front paste-down with the bookplate of R.R. Donnelley and Sons, The Lakeside Press. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows a very small furrow of the cloth at the foot of the spine, else Fine having been exceptionally well maintained. The dust jacket shows some shelf rubbing along the edges and corners with marginal creasing and loss, a chip from the head of the spine, section of marginal toning, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 500 unnumbered copies signed by Eric Gill & Rene Hague on colophon. American typographer and book designer Jackson Burke's copy with his bookplate on paste down. 121 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine in uncommon original dust jacket, creased horizontally, else Near Fine, bright and unclipped. Two prospectuses laid in. The English typographer and sculptor's influential essay on typography, hand printed on special watermarked paper.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. An Essay on Typography. Sheed & Ward 1931, London, 1931.
Price: US$1592.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (iv), 121 pp., bound in red cloth with orginal jacket bound to the rear. Slight rubbing to the boards. Fresh and bright internally with a firm binding. Illustrated with typography examples throughout. One of a limited run of 500 signed by the author Eric Gill and the printer Rene Hague. This copy includes a letter from Gill on Piggotts notepaper, agreeing to design a bookplate for Morley Kennerley, which is pasted to the front pastedown. 8vo. Limited Edition
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom