28th Apr, 2022 10:00

Fine Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 93
 

Eric Gill. Collection of woodcuts, books, etc.

Gill (Eric)

English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker.

Collection of woodcuts, books, etc., to include.-

14 images from the Cleverdon edition, numbers 45, 36, 140, 170, 217, 231, 316, 327, 334, 340, 368, 373, 443/444 & 715, 1929; 7 images from 25 Nudes; Image of ‘Clare’, Bookplate for Austin St Barbe; Postage Stamps x 2 sheets of 25, mint; Christmas Card, First Cry to Nowell (Noel). Fellowship of Reconciliation. New York, 1951; GCP Press Prospectus, 1930; Twenty-Five Nudes, third impression, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, 1951; Clothes, first edition, 10 diagrams by the author, original cloth, slightly faded spine, 1931; Art-Nonsense and other essays, first edition, original cloth, slightly faded and soiled, 1929; In a Strange Land, first edition, engraved frontispiece by Gill, original cloth, worn, 1944; Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Cressida, wood engravings by Eric Gill, original parchment-backed cloth boards, hinges cracked, worn, New York, 1932; and small collection of books and catalogues on and about Eric Gill, v.s. (c.40)

Estimated at £600 - £800

 

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