Search results for: 'GILL, Eric'
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GILL, Eric. The Four Gospels of Lord Jesus Christ according to the Authorized Version of King James I.Waltham St Lawrence : 1931
Limited edition, number 454 of 500 copies on paper; 12 copies were also issued on vellum. "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... Learn More£13,500.00Stock Code: 133103
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GILL, Eric. The Four Gospels of Lord Jesus Christ according to the Authorized Version of King James I.Waltham St Lawrence : 1931
Limited edition, number 412 of 500 copies on paper (12 copies were also issued on vellum), of one of the great private press books of the century, and perhaps Gill's greatest achievement.
"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... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 138545
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GILL, Eric & Mary, & Austen Barbe Harrison. From the Jerusalem Diary, dedication copy, and two copies of From the Palestine Diary; together with a collection of correspondence to the dedicatee.A remarkable collection, including the dedication copy of the From the Jerusalem Diary, inscribed by the editor, Mary Gill, Eric Gill's widow, "To Austen St B. Harrison, with happy memories, from M.E.G.", with the Eric Gill-designed bookplate of Austen St Barbe Harrison to the front pastedown. Harrison, a close personal friend of Gill (1882-1940), was... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 118739
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GILL, Eric. The Human Person and Society.London : 1940
Corrected proof copy, extensively annotated by the author. Gill's corrections in brown ink are on almost every page, emending typographical errors. It is accompanied by two leaves of suggestions of manuscript corrections for the printed text, listed in black ink, consisting of typographical and structural alterations, with ticks by Gill in brown ink... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 121495
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GILL, Eric. [The Good Shepherd.]Coventry : 1937
Original drawing by Gill, entitled "The Good Shepherd", for one of a pair of reliefs commissioned for the original hospital building in Coventry in 1937. Inscribed by Gill "1 Coventry" in the upper left corner, dated "15.11.37" in the lower right. The designs for the second relief, entitled "The Good Samaritan", were drawn on an identical advertisement... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 127001
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GILL, Eric. Sacred and Secular in Art and Industry.Rhode Island : 1939
First edition, first printing, one of 400 copies only. In his lecture, Gill explores the relationship and the ratio of power between art and industry, skill and labour, personality and impersonality, and of course, sacred and secular. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 142937
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GILL, Eric (intro.); TEGETMEIER, Denis. The Seven Deadly Virtues.London : [1934]
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by both Tegetmeier and Gill on the limitation leaf. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 74601
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GILL, Eric (illus.); JOHNSTON, Edward. Manuscript & Inscription LettersLondon : 1909
First edition, first impression. Laid-in is a two-page autograph letter signed (on the back of printed galleys) from Mervyn Horder, prominent composer and, at the time, chairman and managing director of Gerald Duckworth & Co., Publishers, to the artist and illustrator Gwen Raverat. The letter concerns the commission of a press mark featuring the letter... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 43224
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GILL, Eric (illus.); GREEN, Arthur Romney. Woodwork in Principle and Practice.Ditchling, Sussex : 1918
First edition, first impression, one of 240 copies. Though entitled volume I, no further volumes were published. Green (1872-1945) exhibited in the Summer Exhibition of 1928 with woodcarvings and was known as a designer of furniture in the Arts and Crafts tradition. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 111564
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AMBLER, Eric. The Dark Frontier.London : 1936
First edition, first impression of the author's first book. With the author's signed presentation inscription to an early blank, "Dear Mr Huggill, This is just in case you can spare the time to read the work - I hope you can. Yours sincerely Eric Ambler". The recipient was a close friend of the author's father who had, as Ambler recalled, seen an advertisement... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 90158
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FIELD, Alice Withrow. Poems.London : 1932
First edition, number 35 of 250 copies only, of this attractively produced and illustrated collection of poems. Alice Withrow Field (1909-1960) was a sex researcher, criminologist, and social scientist, whose seminal work Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Russia was also published in 1932. This edition is now uncommon and has been traced at... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 139595
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Secret Despatches from Arabia.[Waltham St Lawrence] : 1939
Limited edition, number 442 of 1,000 numbered copies, printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type on handmade paper. Loosely iserted in this copy is the publisher's advertising prospectus noting that "to avoid disappointment, intending subscribers are requested to place their orders, with remittance, early".
"The majority of Lawrence's contributions... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 146262
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CHAKRAVORTY, Ramendra Nath. Sketches of Europe before the War.London : 1944
First edition, highly uncommon with only three copies in libraries worldwide, this copy inscribed by the artist "to Mrs R. G. Casey, with kindest regards. Ramendra Nath Chakravorty, Sept. 8 1944" on the front free endpaper: the de facto dedication copy, the recipient Marie Casey being the author of the foreword and also the subject of Chakravorty's... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 105558
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WORLD WAR II - POLITICAL WARFARE EXECUTIVE. "German Propaganda and the German 5.7.43 - 20.10.43" - collection of weekly reports.1943
A remarkable survival: a half-yearly run of pioneering weekly propaganda intelligence reports produced by the German and Austrian Region Intelligence Section of the Political Warfare Executive. These reports were to provide the basis for a new approach to intelligence work for the British which would be carried forward after the end of WWII. Documentary... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 135819
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POE, Edgar Allan. Tales.New York : 1845
First edition, first printing, with the New York imprint, one of 1,500 copies issued; this copy with the half-title present.
This collection of 12 tales features some of Poe's most significant fantastical stories, such as the horrific "The Black Cat", which contains "a complementary mixture of supernaturalism and dramatic irony" (Magill, p.... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 136458
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MACLENNAN, Hugh. Typed letter signed enclosing original ten-page typescript.21 May 1969
Typed letter signed from the Canadian author and McGill English professor Hugh Maclennan to Ray Gardner (1919-1997), journalist and editor at the Toronto Star, enclosing a ten-page corrected typescript of his speech given at the emergency symposium on "The Americanization of Canadian Universities" at Sir George Williams University on 17 May 1969. Maclennan... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 141422
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POE, Edgar Allan, & Charles Baudelaire (trans.) Histoires extraordinaires; Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires.Paris : 1884
First editions thus, each number 66 of 100 copies on Japon paper, of Poe's classic tales, extra-illustrated and and with an original watercolour in both volumes by noted Swiss artist Evert van Muyden (1853-1922), who left Rome to study at Geneva's Beaux-Arts around 1884. Van Muyden is best known for his illustrations of plants and animals inspired by... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 141759
