Lot 190
  • 190

Gill, Eric

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Gill, Eric
  • Collection of fifty-four books or pamphlets by Eric Gill, comprising:
  • Printed books and pamphlets
Christianity and Art. Capel-Y-Ffin: Walterson, 1927, number 124 of 200 copies, signed ‘Eric Gill’ and ‘David Jones’, [Gill 13]; Art & Love. Bristol: Cleverdon, 1927, number 140 of 260 copies, signed ‘Eric Gill’, [Gill 14]; Art-Nonsense and other essays. Cassell & Co, 1929, number 58 of 100 copies, signed ‘Eric Gill’, [Gill 18], together with a working proof page annotated by the artist in red ink, with an impression of ‘Belle Sauvage II: Girl Standing’ [P606] on the verso, mounted; Art and Manufacture. Fanfare Press, 1929, number 17 of 60 copies signed ‘Eric Gill’, [Gill 19]; Typography. Sheed & Ward: 1931, one of 500 copies, signed ‘René Hague’ and ‘Eric Gill’, dust-jacket [Gill 21]; Clothes. Cape, 1931, number 36 of 160 copies, [Gill 22], together with a further copy from the standard edition, dust-jacket; Sculpture and the Living Model. Sheed & Ward, 1932, [Gill 23]; Beauty looks after herself. Sheed & Ward, 1933, Austen St Barbe Harrison bookplate, David Potter bookplate [Gill 24], together with a further copy in a dust-jacket; Unemployment. Faber and Faber, 1933, [Gill 25]; Money & Morals. Faber and Faber, 1934, dust-jacket [Gill 28]; Money & Morals. Faber and Faber, 1937, new edition, inscribed ‘Michael R from Eric G, Christmas 1937’ on the front free endpaper, dust-jacket, collectors’ box, [Gill 28]; Trousers and the most precious ornament. Faber and Faber, 1937, [Gill 35]; Twenty-five Nudes. Dent, 1938, [Gill 38]; Drawings from Life. Hague & Gill, 1940, dust-jacket [Gill 48]; Autobiography. Cape, 1940, dust-jacket [Gill 49], together with a further copy in a later dust-jacket; Last Essays. Cape, 1942, dust-jacket [Gill 50]; In a Strange Land. Cape, 1944, dust-jacket [Gill 51], together with a further copy in a dust-jacket; From the Jerusalem Diary of Eric Gill. Linotype & Machinery Limited, 1953, number 106 of 300 copies, glassine dust-jacket [Gill 54(a)], together with number 151 of 300 copies; [From the Palestine Diary of Eric Gill. Harvill Press, 1949], [see Gill 54(a)]; Servile Labour and Contemplation. Wirral: Aylesford Press, 1989, number 323 of 400 copies [not in Gill]; together with 28 others; mostly 8vo, original bindings, occasional spotting and browning, some dust-jackets frayed at extremities (54 vols)

Condition

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