[Rarebooks] Eric Gill / Engravings, 1927

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*GILL, Eric. /ENGRAVINGS BY ERIC GILL A Selection of Engravings on Wood 
and Metal //Representative of his work to the end of 1927 with a 
complete Chronological List of Engravings and a Preface by the Artist./* 
Bound in original black cloth with gilt embossed design to front board. 
Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol, UK, 1929. Large 4to.

"The beautiful is not a kind of truth, but a kind of good" and a book of 
engravings is a book containing a certain kind of goods. (Gill, from his 
Preface).

[Arthur] Eric [Rowton] Gill (1882-1940) was a British stone-carver, 
engraver, typographer and author. He studied lettering under Edward 
Johnston, as well as architecture and masonry. In 1906, he married, and 
the following year he moved with his family to "Sopers", a house in the 
village of Ditchling, in Sussex, which would later become the centre of 
an artists' community inspired by Gill. There he started producing 
sculpture - his first public success was /Mother and Child/ (1912). His 
first figures were carved directly from stone. He converted to Roman 
Catholicism in 1913, and carved the Stations of the Cross for 
Westminster Cathedral (1913-1918), as well as a number of other large 
outdoor works (e.g. the London Transport head office, where one of his 
colleagues was Henry Moore). He designed ten type fonts including 
"Perpetua", "Gill Sans-serif", and "Joanna" (named after his daughter). 
His designs often have a classical Roman, or religious, influence. After 
his death, his headstone, on his grave near Pigotts, identified him 
simply as a "stone carver"

This magnificent work was published in a limited edition of 490 copies, 
this copy being designated no. 417 and was printed at the Fanfare Press, 
London, for Douglas Cleverdon. With 103 full page (13" x 9 1/2") plates 
from Gill's wood and steel engravings. The boards are a bit scuffed, 
with a touch of soiling. The gilt embossed image of a tree with a blade 
through its trunk, is bright and unmarred. There are no former owner's 
names, or other markings: the text and plates are clean and tight. 
Overall, in very good condition.

Price: $2,500.00.

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sent anywhere in the world. Returnable within seven days of receipt, if 
not as described.

 
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