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Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Original blue boards with linen spine, in a custom made clamshell box with lettering. in fine condition. Limited to 450 copies, of which this is no. 248. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Illustrated with 8 wood-engravings (Physick, 281-288) by Eric Gill. Evan Gill Bibliography, 274; Chanticleer, 69; Skelton, 150.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Clay, Enid. SONNETS AND VERSES. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1925.
Price: US$510.13 + shipping
Description: Pp. [viii]+36(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), wood-engraved title page vignette and 7 illustrations by Eric Gill (3 full page); tall demy 8vo; qr. natural linen, printed paper title label on spine, blue/grey papered boards, slightly scuffed, edges and fore-corners chipped and lightly worn, the spine browned, title label chipped; upper hinge starting at head, the endpapers faintly soiled, a little light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1925. Edition limited to 450 numbered copies on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Chanticleer 25; Gill 274. *Signed by the poet (dated August 19, 1925) on the upper free endpaper above the later bookplate of Janeta Gill - perhaps a relative? (Enid Clay was a sister of Eric Gill). From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label below the earlier bookplate of Scottish writer and literary agent Giles Alexander Esme Gordon (1940-2003).
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
GILL Eric; CLAY Enid; MONROE Harold; GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. Sonnets & Verses. , 1925.
Price: US$542.78 + shipping
Description: Harold Monro's copy. No. 364 of 450 copies. 8 Wood engravings by Eric Gill, including title page. 15 x 23cm. Original publishers blue paper boards over quarter tan cloth, title in black on paper spine label, presentation bookplate of the Double Crown Club. Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press. With presentation bookplate of the Double Crown Club announcing that the book was 'awarded the crown for the year 1925' and presenting this copy as no. 23 of 42 copies issued to members of the club, Harold Monro's name written in ink and signed by Holbrook Jackson, president of the club, and Hubert Foss, secretary. Monro was founder and proprietor of the influential but ultimately unsuccessful Poetry Bookshop which published numerous books and pamphlets of poetry, often gaily decorated by some of the leading graphic artists of the day, such as Claude Lovat Fraser, John and Paul Nash and Edward McKnight Kauffer, although Gill only contributed to two of the bookshop's publications.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$613.86 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, number 439 of 450 copies, presentation copy, inscribed "To Miss H.M. Wade-Gery from Robert Gibbings. 14-10-25" on front free endpaper. Gibbings took over The Golden Cockerell Press in February 1924. This copy was presented to the sister of H. T. Wade-Gery, the classical scholar and author of the second book printed by the Press. This collection of poetry by Enid Clay, collects examples previously published in The English Review and the Observer. Gibbings had previously tried to involve Eric Gill in the work of The Golden Cockerell Press but the artist had refused as Gibbings was not a Catholic. When Gibbings sought to publish the work of Gill's sister, Enid, the artist commenced a long and productive relationship with the press. Chanticleer 25; Gill 274. Octavo. Original buff cloth-backed blue boards, paper spine label. Eight wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped, extremities slightly sunned; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
ERIC GILL. Lovers on a Bank Signed and numbered.. Self Published, 1925.
Price: US$1098.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eric Gill wood engraving signed and numbered 15 of an edition of 25 copies. Printed on fine japon the sheet is hinged at the top margin with fine japon paper. A light fox mark in image-please examine carefully. Mounted. Image size 4.6 x 7.4cm (1.75 x 3 inches) Sheet size 8 x 13cm (3 x 5 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.Reference: Physick 288: Illustration on page 3 of Sonnets and Verses by Enid Clay, Number 25 of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Physick states That the edition was signed Eric G and the edition size was 25 copies.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom