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Price: US$581.48 + 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
Eric Gill. Art and Love. Douglas Clarendon, 1927.
Price: US$646.09 + 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
ERIC GILL. With Ritual Chant, Signed and numbered.. Self Published, 1927.
Price: US$1227.56 + 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