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Auction archive: Lot number 216

Gill (Eric).- Saint John-of-the-Cross. The Song of the Soul, one of 150 copies signed by Gill, Capel-y-Ffin, Abergavenny, 1927 & another, Gill (2)

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$531 - US$797
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 216

Gill (Eric).- Saint John-of-the-Cross. The Song of the Soul, one of 150 copies signed by Gill, Capel-y-Ffin, Abergavenny, 1927 & another, Gill (2)

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$531 - US$797
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Gill (Eric).- Saint John-of-the-Cross, Barefooted Carmelite. The Song of the Soul, translated by John O'Connor number 8 of 150 copies signed by the artist, wood-engraved title-vignette and illustrations by Eric Gill original buckram-backed batik boards, uncut, a little rubbed and faded, printed by the Chiswick Press for Francis Walterson, Capel-y-Ffin, Abergavenny, 1927 § Gill (Eric) From the Palestine Diary..., title very lightly soiled, spotting to endpapers, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, light damp-staining to spine, printed by Hague & Gill of High Wycombe for the Harvill Press, 1949, 4to & 12mo (2) ⁂ An old typed note in the second item reads: "This edition, on hand-made paper, was printed by Hague & Gill at Pigotts in 1949 but never published. Some sets of sheets that survived were recently [corrected in manuscript to 'subsequently'] bound up by Sangorski & Sutcliffe".

Auction archive: Lot number 216
Auction:
Datum:
31 May 2018
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Gill (Eric).- Saint John-of-the-Cross, Barefooted Carmelite. The Song of the Soul, translated by John O'Connor number 8 of 150 copies signed by the artist, wood-engraved title-vignette and illustrations by Eric Gill original buckram-backed batik boards, uncut, a little rubbed and faded, printed by the Chiswick Press for Francis Walterson, Capel-y-Ffin, Abergavenny, 1927 § Gill (Eric) From the Palestine Diary..., title very lightly soiled, spotting to endpapers, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, light damp-staining to spine, printed by Hague & Gill of High Wycombe for the Harvill Press, 1949, 4to & 12mo (2) ⁂ An old typed note in the second item reads: "This edition, on hand-made paper, was printed by Hague & Gill at Pigotts in 1949 but never published. Some sets of sheets that survived were recently [corrected in manuscript to 'subsequently'] bound up by Sangorski & Sutcliffe".

Auction archive: Lot number 216
Auction:
Datum:
31 May 2018
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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