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Gill, Eric. An Essay on Typography.. Sheed & Ward, London, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$599.83 + 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
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.
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.