Lot 138
  • 138

[Gill, Eric]

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  • [Gill, Eric]
  • Collection of 25 volumes with illustrations by Eric Gill, comprising:
  • Printed books
Challoner Bishop. The Miracles of Our Lord. Burns and Oates, 1914 [not in Gill]--Commaraswamy, A. transl. The Taking of Toll, The Old Bourne Press, 1915, THE FIRST BOOK RECORDED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ERIC GILL [Gill 258], extremities frayed with some loss--Cornford, F. Autumn Midnight. Poetry Bookshop, 1923, presentation inscription by the author [Gill 273]--Chesterton, G.K. Gloria in Profundia. Faber & Gwyer, [1927] [Gill 278]--Chaucer, G. Troilus and Cressida. New York: Literary Guild, 1932, dust-jacket [cf Gill 279]--O'Connor, J. transl. The Song of the Soul. Abergavenny: Francis Walterson, 1927, number 6 of 150 copies [Gill 280]--Huxley, A. Leda. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929, number 84 of 361 copies, slipcase [Gill 282]--Canticum canticorum Salomonis. Weimar: Cranach Press, 1931, number 151 of 200 copies, dust-jacket and slipcase [Gill 284]--Shakespeare, W. Hamlet. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1933, number 870 of 1500 copies, slipcase [Gill 287]; Shakespeare, W. Sonnets. Cassell, 1933, one of 500 copies, dust-jacket [Gill 288], dust-jacket worn--[Bible]. The Passion of our Lord. Faber & Faber, 1932, dust-jacket [Gill 291], dust-jacket worn--Sackville-West, V. and E. transl. Elegies form the Castle of Duino. Hogarth Press, 1931, out of series copy from an edition of 230 copies [Gill 347]--Powys, T.F. Uncle Dottery. Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1930, out of series copy from an edition of 350 copies [Gill 394]--together with 12 others [Gill 292 (volumes I-IV); Gill 296; Gill 290 (bound volume of engravings only); Gill 298; Gill 299; Gill 300; Gill 306; Gill 351a and Gill 396a]--all various sizes, original bindings (25)