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118.GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GILL, Eric (illustrator). The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the Authorized Version of King James I. With Decorations by Eric Gill. Waltham St. Lawrence. The Golden Cockerel Press. 1931.
£12,500
Folio. Original half white pigskin over maize buckram boards, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut; with 64 illustrations and initial letters from wood-engravings by Eric Gill, some full-page; a little light spotting to buckram as usual, but otherwise an excellent copy, without the usual rubbing to spine, preserved in original card slipcase. A distinctly superior copy.
One of 500 copies, this no. 405, printed in Golden Cockerel type (designed for the Press by Eric Gill) on Batchelor hand-made paper.
One of the great twentieth century private press books, the crowning achievement of the Golden Cockerel Press and Eric Gill’s finest work as a book illustrator. “Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer. A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustrator, Eric Gill, the book among all books in which Roman type has been mated with any kind of illustration” (Chanticleer 78).
119. GERLACH, Martin. Festons und Decorative Gruppen, aus Pflanzen und Thieren Jagd-, Touristen-, und Anderen Gerathen. A complete portfolio of the third edition of Festons und Decorative Gruppen, containing the text with foreword by Dr. Richard Graul and all 141 collotype prints, (1-118, 118a, 119-140) published by Gerlach & Schenk, Vienna, Austria, 1899. Binding in poor condition.
Produced using collotype, the early photographic technique, these highly decorative prints showcase elaborate compositions combining plants, flowers and fruit with shells, fish, birds, reptiles and other props for truly unique combinations.
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The famous Lenox China company used some of the images from this collection for giftware designs. The work was published in four editions with the first edition published in 1897. This is the third edition. GERLACH, Martin. Festons und Decorative Gruppen, aus Pflanzen und Thieren Jagd-, Touristen-, und Anderen Gerathen. A Complete Portfolio of the third edition of “Festons und Decorative Gruppen,” containing the text with foreword by Dr. Richard Graul and all 141 collotype prints, (1-118, 118a, 119-140) published by Gerlach & Schenk, Vienna, Austria, 1899. 405 x 320 mm.
£850
120. FOOTBALL. GIBSON, Alfred & William PICKFORD. Association Football and the men who made it. The Caxton Publishing Company, [1905].
£798
4to (4 volumes). Original pictorial cloth by John Hassall; with numerous black and white and colour illustrations; a very good set.
First edition. A wide-ranging study of the game to date through its origins, the development of the professional game and the history of the league structure. It highlights aspects of the game through biographies of important figures in the sport and includes short histories of the top clubs.
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