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106. [GILL, Eric] SKELTON, Christopher. The Engravings of Eric Gill. Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton. 1983.
£598
4to. Original black cloth with cream cloth spine, design of three female figures on upper cover in blind, spine lettered in gilt; pp. xxiv + 545 + colophon; illustrated throughout with Gill’s engravings, a few in colour, some folding; a fine copy in the original slipcase.
Limited to 1350 copies. There were also 85 special copies bound in two volumes.
107. [GILL, Eric]. GILL, Evan R. Bibliography of Eric Gill. Foreword by Walter Shewring. Cassell & Co. 1953.
£128
Royal 8vo. Original blue buckram, dust-jacket; illustrated with numerous reproductions of title-pages; dust-jacket chipped and laid down on brown paper, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies.
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108. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. SIMON, Ingo. Roving Shafts. Thornton Butterworth. [1924].
£98
8vo., original vellum backed paper covered boards lettered in gilt on spine. A little browning to boards otherwise a very good copy.
Limited edition of 350 numbered copies printed at the Golden Cockerel Press. This copy inscribed by the author “To Winifred affectionately Ingo.”
Ingo Simon (1875-1964) was a lifelong researcher into the development of the bow and was a skilled and dedicated archer.His flight-shot in 1914 of 462 yards was a world record until 1933.
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109. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GILL, Eric (illustrator). The Song of Songs, called by many The Canticle of Canticles. Golden Cockerel Press. 1925.
£1,500
Crown 4to. Original white buckram, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed; vignette on title (printed in red) and 18 other wood-engravings by Eric Gill, initial letters printed in red; some embrowning to the free-endpapers otherwise a very nice copy.
One of 750 numbered copies. Evan Gill 275. Chanticleer 31.
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