Sonnets Verses by Gill Eric Clay Enid (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, limited. #340 of 450 copies. Covers an cloth spine moderately soiled, paper spine label toned, corners worn. Internals near fine. Lovely Gill decorations and vignettes.

Hardcover. 8vo (9" x 6"), blue paper over boards in half brown cloth, leather stamped title-author. b&w woodcut illus. throughout. Previous owner bookplate on front and back paste-downs. 35 pp. CONDITION: Very good, cover lightly scratched and slightly faded on corners and worn at extremities, with light toning at front spine-edge. Number 210 of an edition of 450 copies. "This book, which is no. 25 of the Golden Cockerel Press publications, was crowned by the Double-Crown Club as being the best produced book of its price published during 1925" (Gill). First Golden Cockerel press book illustrated by Gill, brother of the author. REFERENCES: Gill 274; Chanticleer 25; Cave & Manson 25.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Original blue boards with linen spine, in a custom made clamshell box with lettering. in fine condition. Limited to 450 copies, of which this is no. 248. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Illustrated with 8 wood-engravings (Physick, 281-288) by Eric Gill. Evan Gill Bibliography, 274; Chanticleer, 69; Skelton, 150.

Hardcover. Eric Gill (illustrator). Number 83 of 450. One-quarter tan cloth boards with blue covers; mounted title card on spine; 35 pp, uncut and untrimmed; richly illustrated with wood engravings by Eric Gill. This is a very rare copy of this poetry book by Enid Clay. It contains lovely illustrations (wood engravings) by Eric Gill. This is numbered 83 of 450 printed. VG (Boards show discoloration at the edges and shelfwear, and scratches; there is darkening to the spine and the label is age-toned; text block edges are foxed; text block shows extremely mild cockling at the edges; pages are lightly age-toned; there is a bit of glue visible at the bottom edge of the pages.).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Gill, Eric (illustrator). 1st edition. A collection of poems by Enid Clay, accompanied by 8 b/w wood engravings by Eric Gill. This was the first book published by the Golden Cockerel Press that was illustrated by Eric Gill, who would later go on to create the Golden Cockerel typeface for the press in 1931. Paper is hand-made and watermarked. Fore-edge and foot of text block deckled. In quarter cloth binding, title on spine. Minor browning on front and back free endpapers, as well as the bottom edge of the last few pages. Otherwise contents clean and bright. High quality paper used. Limited to 450 copies, of which this is hand-numbered 291. First edition. Used book.

Condition: Very Good. Eric Gill (illustrator). 1st Edition. With eight engravings by Eric Gill. In original blue boards with cloth spine. Paper label solidly attached to spine with title and author. General wear to boards and some ageing and soiling to cloth spine. Complete with multiple endpapers at front and back. This book is number 218 of 450. No signatures. Sticker from old (maybe original) bookstore it was sold at. Interior is clean and clear with rough cut edges. Pages:(14) 35 (7) Dimensions:9 x 6â x â.

First edition, first impression, number 439 of 450 copies, presentation copy, inscribed "To Miss H.M. Wade-Gery from Robert Gibbings. 14-10-25" on front free endpaper. Gibbings took over The Golden Cockerell Press in February 1924. This copy was presented to the sister of H. T. Wade-Gery, the classical scholar and author of the second book printed by the Press. This collection of poetry by Enid Clay, collects examples previously published in The English Review and the Observer. Gibbings had previously tried to involve Eric Gill in the work of The Golden Cockerell Press but the artist had refused as Gibbings was not a Catholic. When Gibbings sought to publish the work of Gill's sister, Enid, the artist commenced a long and productive relationship with the press. Chanticleer 25; Gill 274. Octavo. Eight wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill. Original buff cloth-backed blue boards, paper spine label. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped, extremities slightly sunned; a very good copy.

Golden Cockerel Press. 1925. 8vo. Original linen-backed boards, printed paper spine label (slightly embrowned), edges untrimmed; pp. [viii],36, colophon; 8 wood engravings by Eric Gill; a very good copy. Provenance: from the collection of a friend of Enid Clay's known to us only as Eve.Limited to 450 numbered copies, ffep inscribed by the author "To Eve/ with love and remembrance/ Enid". This book was "crowned"as the finest publication of 1925 by the Double Crown Club and is noted not only for Clay's fine poems but also for the wood engravings by her brother, Eric Gill.sold with1. Wedding invitation, 12 x 10 cm, [4] ll. folded at top edge, with cover design "Man and woman embracing" by Eric Gill. This is an invitation to the 1938 wedding of Margaret, Enid's daughter and Eric's niece, to Edgar Breitenbach, an art historian who would later become instrumental in tracking down artworks ransacked by the Nazis during the war. We have found only two other specimens of this very rare Gill work at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Washington University.2. Prospectus for The Constant Mistress by Enid Clay, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. 4 ll, with wood engravings by Eric Gill.3. Manuscript draft of "The Constant Mistress" in Enid Clay's hand, ink, dated 1927, pale blue notepaper 26 x 20.5 cim, one side only.4. Manuscript draft of poem beginning "When all this wonder of earth and vivid sky." in Enid Clay's hand, dated 1932, pale blue notepaper 26 x 20.5 cm, both sides. Recto with message "These are the mines I tried to get into shape when I was with you. 'Pedlars Pack' a new magazine printed them in their March number',5. 4 typed drafts, cream notepaper 24 x 19cm, each on one side only, of three poems from The Constant Mistress, "Gifts", "Suburban Spring" and "Norfolk Dunes" (here "The Dunes"), and one untitled poem dated 1927.Evan Gill 274. Chanticleer 25.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.