Eric Gill [Contemporary British Artists: Eric Gill]
London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1927.
4to, quarter blue cloth over beige paper boards, gilt titles. First issue. Rubbing and toning to boards and fading to board corners. Thirty-two black and white plates of the Ditchling artist’s classical and religious sculpture, with a few preliminary drafts. Ex-libris bookplate of Rainforth Armitage Walker, British art collector and authorized biographer of Aubrey Beardsley, who served as editor of the Print Collector’s Quarterly from 1921-36. Walker’s pencil script notes and collaging to the book, including a tipped-in autograph letter from the editor Albert Rutherson to Walker. Endpapers, some pages with cut-out insertions of plates of drawings from other Gill books, newspaper pastedowns, tipped-in ephemeral brochures, bookseller catalog lists, and miscellaneous other clippings. A nice copy.
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Price: $75.00
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