Wood-Engravings: Being a selection of Eric Gill s engravings on wood. The first [No.5] (Virgin and Child) is a wood cut, that is cut with a knife on the long grain of the wood instead of with a graver on the "end" grain. This was cut for a Poster

(Saint Dominic's Press) Gill (Eric)

Verlag: Royal 4to, 31cm, Half-title + Title + 33 leaves done on the rectos only, Printed and Published at S. Dominic s Press, Ditchling, A.D. 1924

Beschreibung

Set in Caslon Old Face and printed in black, with occasional use of red, on Batchelor hand-made paper. Wood-engraved initial W on the title-page, engraving on limitation leaf, 36 other engravings nearly all printed one to apage. One of 150 copies, this copy being number 18, of the "fifty" copies priced at one guinea (this note in Pepler s hand the other hundred copies were sold at two guineas). Canvas boards, untitled. Blue paper dust-jacket, titled in black with a repeat of the Madonna and Child woodcut on the front cover. An exceptional copy. (Taylor & Sewell A129) Evan Gill 410 notes that the edition contains thirty-seven engravings but lists thirty-eight (which is correct) including those done jointly with David Jones. It is bound in natural linen boards with one of two dust-jackets; either plain brown printed Wood-engravings E.G. or blue paper printed Wood-engravings E.Gill and with the Madonna and child engraving. The matter of the edition size and numbering is very confused. Evan Gill is wrong to state that the edition is limited to fifty copies. There are two numbering patterns: (a) Some copies are numbered n/50 by hand. (b) Other copies have a printed limitation statement. As this copy has the full printed limitation statement, followed by Pepler s handwritten note it is not clear that this is absolutely the complete story, but the direction is clear. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 12753

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Wood-Engravings: Being a selection of Eric ...

Verlag: Royal 4to, 31cm, Half-title + Title + 33 leaves done on the rectos only, Printed and Published at S. Dominic s Press, Ditchling, A.D. 1924

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition