John Beedham Eric Gill (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 1st Thus. pp 56 + advertisements. 5th printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Original cream dust-jacket with black titles, one or two little chips to the top edge, price corner clipped although price remains (6s 6d), very tidy having been kept in a clear protective cover. Book buind in green/grey cloth with title in red along the spine, clean bright and square. Hinge firm, no inscriptions, end papers darkened thereafter pages are smooth clean and clear, with illustrations throughout by Eric Gill. Eric Gill (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Good Minus. Jacket rubbed, chipped, and tanned. Some light spotting to cloth and closed edges, but contents VG Size: 12mo.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. A very good (although ex Library) of this small treatise on wood engraving and printing originally published by the Ditchling Press in 1921, now in its second Edition published by Faber in 1946. No Dust Jacket: (as issued?). Cover: blue Buckram covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and 'Colwyn Bay Public Library' blind stamped to rear; in very good condition for its age; clean and bright, no marks, just a small amount of edge wear commensurate with age and use. InternallY; very clean and tightly bound; library 'withdrawn' stamp and some lettering to edition page, no other library stamps, marks or inscriptions; very slight darkening to page edges. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 58 pp. plus 4 pp. advertising material.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter natural linen with tan printed paper-covered boards, small 8vo., viii, 40 pages. 31 in-text woodcut figures, with 5 Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. A better than very good copy, with slight cover use.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp viii, 40, 31 plates, including five wood engravings by Gill who also writes the eight page introduction. Original publishers grey boards, lettered black with blind decorated spine (Evan Gill gives the spine as cloth, which suggests that this is possibly a variant issue). Slight rubbing at foot of spine and starting to split with covers a little marked, otherwise about very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback, quarter cloth, black paper covered boards. No dust-wrapper. 20.5cm x 14cm. viii, 33pp. With 32 illustrations. First printed 1921 on copyright page, but title page says MCMXXV (1925). Spine is somewhat foxed, boards a little marked. Small spot to title page and page opposite, otherwise clean.…

Hardcover. Tan paper over boards with black lettering and illustration; black cloth spine; iv, 43 pp; untrimmed pages, bw illustrations. Introduction and appendix by Eric Gill. Good+ (light shelfwear overall and foxing spots to boards, pages are clean and clear.).

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo. viii. 40pp. + 31 wood engravings, 5 of which are by Eric Gill, several by Desmond Chute and others. Bound in a quarter cloth over paper covered boards. [GILL II/77.] VERY GOOD. Shows shelf rubbing along the edges and corners with just a hint of loss, spine somewhat toned, the slightest hint of toning to the endpapers, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and engravings are clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. [ii], iv. 43, [3] pages. Damp staining and worming to the lower outer corner throughout. Bookbinder's ticket to the rear pastedown of Theo. B. Merrett, Guild of Glos Craftsmen, Stroud. In hessian covered boards with leather spine. Spine scuffed and worn. End papers browned and stained. The first edition was published in 1920.…

First edition. Publisher's brown cloth over paper-covered boards, with black lettering and design to upper cover. A very good copy indeed. Wood-engravings by Beedham throughout.

Early Printing. Hardcover in jacket, quite good with shelf wear, tear to jacket along spine edge, slight chipping, toning and rubbing to jacket, slight toning to cloth cover. With introduction and appendix by Eric Gill, with some engraved illustrations designed by him.

Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), cloth spine, printed paper over boards. [4], viii, 40 pp., emblem of S. Dominic's Press and one wood-engraving by Gill, other engravings by the author and Desmond Chute. Bookplate of "Wyman Parker" on front pastedown, also ticket on ffep reading: "This book can be supplied by the Dryad Works, Handicraft Department 42 St. Nicholas Street, Leicester." CONDITION: Good, spine slightly browned, corners slightly curled, endpapers toned, first two leaves partially detached but holding firm. First edition. Number 10 of the S. Dominic's Press publications. Gill's "introduction was revised and the book was enlargedpublished as the fifth edition by Faber & Faber in 1938" (Gill). Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books. REFERENCES: Gill 77.…