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GILL, Eric (1882-1940)--The Book of Common Prayer ... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Cambridge and London: John Baskerville for Baskerville and B. Dod, 1762.
12° (66 x 100mm). Cancel title with second line in roman type and last line reading '(Price Five Shillings, unbound.)'. (Scattered light spotting and occasional ink-marking, small marginal tears causing loss on title and a few leaves, front flyleaf partially detached, lacking preliminary blank a1, B1 and C1 torn and repaired with adhesive tape.) Contemporary black morocco, covers with blind-ruled borders, spine divided into compartments by raised bands, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped, surface cracking on upper joint), 20th-century slipcase. Provenance: W. Henry Tebbs (pencilled inscription on front free endpaper) -- Eric Gill, 8 November 1933 (inscription on front free endpaper, noting 'b[ough]t from D[ouglas]. Cleverdon's Bristol £1'; bookplate on upper pastedown, cf. C. Skelton The Engraved Bookplates of Eric Gill (Pinner: 1986), P504).
First Baskerville duodecimo edition. ERIC GILL'S COPY OF BASKERVILLE'S BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, bought from his associate and publisher. Although Harry Graf Kessler and Gill had met before the Great War, Gill's contributions to the Cranach Presse's books took place during the inter-war years (e.g. Virgil's Eclogae (lots 146-8) and the Canticum canticorum (lot 134)). In his diaries Kessler described Gill thus: 'He really is a quite extraordinary and noteworthy personality, with his great artistic talent, utter repudiation of modern commercialism, and eccentric peity translated into an all-embracing sensuousness' (The diaries of a Cosmopolitan (London: 1999), p.257). Gaskell Baskerville (1973) 20.
12° (66 x 100mm). Cancel title with second line in roman type and last line reading '(Price Five Shillings, unbound.)'. (Scattered light spotting and occasional ink-marking, small marginal tears causing loss on title and a few leaves, front flyleaf partially detached, lacking preliminary blank a1, B1 and C1 torn and repaired with adhesive tape.) Contemporary black morocco, covers with blind-ruled borders, spine divided into compartments by raised bands, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped, surface cracking on upper joint), 20th-century slipcase. Provenance: W. Henry Tebbs (pencilled inscription on front free endpaper) -- Eric Gill, 8 November 1933 (inscription on front free endpaper, noting 'b[ough]t from D[ouglas]. Cleverdon's Bristol £1'; bookplate on upper pastedown, cf. C. Skelton The Engraved Bookplates of Eric Gill (Pinner: 1986), P504).
First Baskerville duodecimo edition. ERIC GILL'S COPY OF BASKERVILLE'S BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, bought from his associate and publisher. Although Harry Graf Kessler and Gill had met before the Great War, Gill's contributions to the Cranach Presse's books took place during the inter-war years (e.g. Virgil's Eclogae (lots 146-8) and the Canticum canticorum (lot 134)). In his diaries Kessler described Gill thus: 'He really is a quite extraordinary and noteworthy personality, with his great artistic talent, utter repudiation of modern commercialism, and eccentric peity translated into an all-embracing sensuousness' (The diaries of a Cosmopolitan (London: 1999), p.257). Gaskell Baskerville (1973) 20.
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