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Gill, Eric
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Gill, Eric
- Wood-engravings for The Canterbury Tales, comprising:
- printed paper
i) ‘Spray of seven leaves and flower bud’ [and] ‘Woman climbing floreated phallus’, numbered 8/10, signed, [P509, P510]; ii) ‘Man climbing’ [and] ‘Man dead’, numbered 3/10, signed, [P513, P514]; iii) ‘Tree woman (leaves for hands’ [and] ‘Spray of fifteen leaves’, numbered 5/10, signed, [P517, P518]; iv) ‘Initial letter H, and Venus and Cupid with the golden cockerel’ [and] ‘Two leaves’, unnumbered, inscribed ‘P from EG’, [P535, P536]; v) ‘Initials H and O with Venus modestly holding spray, Cupid playing football with the world’, numbered USA 1/5 from the American edition, signed, [P582]; vi) ‘The unsuspecting cuckold’, unnumbered, [P659]; vii) Conjugate leaves F3 and F6 (pp. 69-70, 75-76) from The Canterbury Tales, Vol. IV, printed on vellum, presumably a spoil from the edition of 15 printed by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31, featuring wood-engravings ‘St Thomas of Canterbury’, ‘Woman climbing, Cupid above’, ‘Girl with magic ring on right thumb’ [and] ‘The Yeoman’s Tale’, [P519, P581, P696, P706], loss to upper corner not affecting text, repaired with paper; various sizes, four mounted, framed and glazed, three mounted (7)