Introduction by Eric Gill (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the facsimile of the 1936 second edition with the Joanna typeface designed by Gill in 1930. 13pp new introduction by Christopher Skelton. Slight age toning to the pages otherwise a fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Appears unread. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Grey cloth printed in red, DW, large 12mo., 57, (4) pages, wood engraved illustrations. Fifth reprint, printed at the Ditchling Press. A clean, near fine copy in soiled and edgeworn DW.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile of 2nd ed. published London, Sheed & Ward, 1936. 133 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Fifth edition. Green boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. No Dustjacket. First in This Edition. 218 pages No dustjacket. Two B&W plates by Eric Gill (as called for). Very clean red hardback binding with faded gilt-coloured titles to spine which is also colour-faded. Ink name and dateto flyleaf. Light wear/rubs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges lightly browned o/w pages clean. Illustrated By Eric Gill (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. A very good copy, of the fifth edition, first printing of this seminal essay on typography. Dust Jacket: coloured paper with cream coloured lettering on red to front, and on green to rear, spine cream coloured with red lettering; red and green lettering to cream coloured flaps; very clean and bright, very few signs of shelf wear (now protected). Cover: dark green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, very clean and bright, few if any signs of shelf wear. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no markings, inscriptions or book plates; overall in extremely good condition. Black and white examples of typography throughout. xvi, 144 pp.…

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

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.…

Decorative Hardcover in Slip C. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 78 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external and overall wear and use. Copy with clean text. Slight damage to fore edge of back cover. No dust jacket. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Richard Cotton & David Playne (Design) (illustrator). …

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: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Unblemished scarlet boards and spine lettered in gilt. Some soiling ored and cream jacket; the spine browned with a 5 mm split at top; the four leading corners rubbed. Internally faint foxing to front end papers. No other faults.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Limited edition of 550 of which 500 for sale. SIGNED by Eric Gill. Illustrated with four full page engravings by Gill. Black binding with gilt lettering and decorative device by Gill. Gold dust jacket complete small closed tear with edge wear to top and base. Now in a protective plastic cover. Internally clean apart from slight browning to end papers. Eric Gill (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

First edition, first printing Lovely red boards. Fine in very close to fine illustrated by Gill dustjacket with crisp bright text. Everything intact including the original price. Profusely illustrated and graphic by Gill. Gift quality.

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. …

Copy number '434' of an edition limited to 550 copies (of which 50, numbered 1-50, were special copies). The text pages are printed letterpress in Perpetua type by Christopher Skelton and Alan Bultitude at The September Press; the pages of the Alphabet Book are reproduced and printed offset litho by Adrian Lack at Senecio Press. The paper is Mohawk Superfine Text. Quarter red cloth over patterned paper covered boards housed in an original blue paper slipcase. Narrow Quarto, 265 x 170 mm, pp. [1-4] 5-15 [blank] [ alphabets, title page] [blank] [index] [blank] 26 pages of finely produced facsimile printed on the rectos only [colophon]. A book and slipcase in Fine condition.…

Condition: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original grey paper covered boards, paper title and author lettering label to the olive green cloth spine. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains [vi] 196 printed pages of text with one full-page monochrome block on page 165 which has been engraved on wood by Eric Gill after the original. Old small humidity stain to the inside rear gutter, small rubs to the corners and spine ends, without any ownership markings and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. WINES, BEERS & SPIRITS.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Black cloth gilt, 8vo., xiv, 26 pages, four full-page engravings by Eric Gill. One of 550 numbered copies. Signed by Eric Gill. Printed from Banyan type on Barcham Green handmade paper. A near fine copy with one faint mark to the front board, light toning to the endpapers and a tiny booksellers label. Signed by Artist.…

Copy number '26' of 50 special copies numbered 1 to 50 (from a total edition of 550 copies) these only, having been bound by Clare Skelton and signed by Douglas Cleverdon. The text pages are printed letterpress in Perpetua type by Christopher Skelton and Alan Bultitude at The September Press; the pages of the Alphabet Book are reproduced and printed offset litho by Adrian Lack at Senecio Press. The paper is Mohawk Superfine Text. Quarter black morocco over patterned paper covered boards. Black cloth portfolio containing an extra complete set of facsimile of the Gill Alphabet Book. All housed in the original red cloth slipcase. Narrow Quarto, 265 x 170 mm, pp. [1-4] 5-15 [blank] [ alphabets, title page] [blank] [index] [blank] 26 pages of finely produced facsimile printed on the rectos only [colophon]. A book, portfolio and slipcase, all in Fine condition.325.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original faux white morocco cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered olive back, olive initials to the front board. 8vo. 10'' x 7''. Composed in 14 point Linotype Pilgrim a type face based on a design by Eric Gill. Hand written 'This special edition of my father's first studies in the nude is limited to 100 copies' | This copy being number 62. Contains 3 pp introduction followed by 24 full-page single-sided reproductions of sketches by Eric Gill. Double SIGNED below the limitation note being signed by the artist's son 'Gordian Gill' and 'John Rothenstein' who wrote the Introduction. Light spotting to the edges of the white covers, off-setting to the end papers. Very Good condition book in acetate dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British].…

, no.277 of a limited edition of 300, signed by Christopher Sandford, printed on F.J. Head's hand-made paper, 112 pages, woodcuts throughout Limited Edition , light rubbing to boards and spine ends, spine faded, internally clean, binding firm, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, very good condition , quarter morocco, patterned cloth, gilt titles to spine , 27 cm x 17 cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN.…

, 47 [1] pages, no. 238 of a 300 copy limited edition. SIGNED by Christopher Sandford, numerous black and white in text illustration and plates throughtout First Edition , the book is a little faded at head and foot edge of boards, green colouring to spine has faded to brown, book plate of Michael Raymond William Charles Holmes T.O.S.F tipped to upper pastedown, binder's mark to upper pastedown, very good condition , quarter bound green morocco under orange cloth with dark green cockerel design, gilt lettering to spine, gilt head edge to text block , octavo, 26.5cm x 17cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN.…

Three plates from drawings by Tegetmeier Quarto This signature shows signs of previously having been sewn; also slight foxing, worn and closed tears on fore-edge, and tearing down the very ragged spine fold. However, the areas covered by the text and illustrations are clean For The Seven Deadly Virtues see Evan Gill 151 An interesting and unusual part proof of a work which in its final edition was only published in 250 copies. The original MS was dated 24 July 1933: this proof shows it at an advanced stage, set in Joanna. The tirade dates from a period in which Gill's proselytising was particularly prolific. It is hard to know whether text or illustration is more satirical - Gill alludes to 'the purity of his [Tegetmeier's] intentions and the blamelessness of his home life.' 9 pages, comprising bastard title, frontispiece, and pp. 5-8 and 15. These latter contain Eric Gill's Foreword, which here comes with a correction in ink in an unknown hand, overwritten by 'stet' in pencil, also in an unknown hand. The bastard title has been decorated with a large pencil sketch.…