Published by Faber and Faber, 1938
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Thus. pp 56 + advertisements. 5th printing.
Language: English
Published by Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1921
Seller: David's Bookshop, Letchworth BA, Letchworth Garden City, HERTS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Eric Gill (illustrator). 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.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1938
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: 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 InternallY; very clean and tightly bound; library 'withdrawn' stamp and some lettering to edition page, no other library stamps, marks or inscriptions; very slight darkening to page edges.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.
Language: English
Published by S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1920
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
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.
Published by Saint Dominic's Press, 1925
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.).
Published by St Dominic's Press, Ditchling Common, Hassocks, Sussex, 1929
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.
Published by Pepler and Sewell, 1935
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
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.
Published by Printed at the Ditchling Press by Douglas Pepler, Ditchling, Sussex, 1918
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Good +. Gill, Eric and Beedham, R. John (illustrator). First and Limited Edition. One of 240 copies, duodecimo size, 126 pp. "Woodwork" contains twenty-one wood engravings of tools by the inimitable Eric Gill (1882-1940); a highly regarded printmaker, sculptor, and typographer (as well as a complicated man), Gill provided illustrations for numerous fine press publications by the Golden Cockerel Press and the Saint Dominic's Press, as well as with Pepler under the imprint of the St. Dominic's Press. An informative look at the art of carpentry by craftsman-woodworker Arthur Romney Green (1872-1945), who, like Gill and Pepler, was influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Although the book is stated as "Volume I", no further volumes were issued. ___DESCRIPTION: Brown paper wraps, black lettering on the front wrap, fore- and bottom edges uncut, title page with black-and-white wood engraving, a total of thirty-one wood engravings in the text throughout: twenty-one wood engravings of carpentry tools by Eric Gill, ten wood engravings by R. John Beedham; Caslon O. F. type, Batchelor handmade paper, duodecimo size (7.75" by 5"), pagination: [i-iv] v-xvi [1] 2-110, one of 450 copies, this number 161. ___CITATION: Better than good, with clean wraps, a strong, square text block, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; overall minor edgewear to the wraps, some loss to the paper at the spine exposing parts of the gatherings (however, text block still solid), small loss to the bottom fore-edge corner of the title page. ___CITATIONS: Gill no. 269; Taylor and Sewell, no. A31. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Published by S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1925
Seller: Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
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.
Published by Ditchling, Sussex: Printed and published at S. Dominic's Press, on the Feast of S. Bartholomew, 1920, 1920
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.