GILL, Eric (1882-1940). Art and Manufacture . London: Fanfare Press for the New Handworkers' Gallery, [1929]. 8° (195 x 130mm). Full-page frontispiece illustration and tailpiece after Gill (light marginal browning, margin of final page dusty). Original printed wrappers, upper wrapper with 'St Thomas's Hands' device after Gill [Skelton P382] (wrappers lightly browned and creased at outer edges). Provenance : George Gordon Coulton (1858-1947, presentation inscription from Gill on upper wrapper 'G.G. Coulton from E.G.) -- [sale, Swann, 24 September 1992, lot 64)]. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GILL TO THE HISTORIAN AND CONTROVERSIALIST COULTON, fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and friend of Gill. Gill visited him at Cambridge in 1929, when 'he dined at St John's with Dr Coulton; and after dinner the two doughty controversialists walked up and down the garden till midnight, arguing about the Middle Ages' (R. Speaight The Life of Eric Gill London: 1966, p. 209); it is possible that this work was inscribed to Coulton by Gill on that occasion. Art and Manufacture was no. 4 in the series 'Handworkers' Pamphlets', and the first to be printed by the Fanfare Press (1-3 were printed by the St Dominic's Press). Evan Gill Bibliography 19; Skelton Eric Gill 'Checklist' 7.
GILL, Eric (1882-1940). Art and Manufacture . London: Fanfare Press for the New Handworkers' Gallery, [1929]. 8° (195 x 130mm). Full-page frontispiece illustration and tailpiece after Gill (light marginal browning, margin of final page dusty). Original printed wrappers, upper wrapper with 'St Thomas's Hands' device after Gill [Skelton P382] (wrappers lightly browned and creased at outer edges). Provenance : George Gordon Coulton (1858-1947, presentation inscription from Gill on upper wrapper 'G.G. Coulton from E.G.) -- [sale, Swann, 24 September 1992, lot 64)]. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GILL TO THE HISTORIAN AND CONTROVERSIALIST COULTON, fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and friend of Gill. Gill visited him at Cambridge in 1929, when 'he dined at St John's with Dr Coulton; and after dinner the two doughty controversialists walked up and down the garden till midnight, arguing about the Middle Ages' (R. Speaight The Life of Eric Gill London: 1966, p. 209); it is possible that this work was inscribed to Coulton by Gill on that occasion. Art and Manufacture was no. 4 in the series 'Handworkers' Pamphlets', and the first to be printed by the Fanfare Press (1-3 were printed by the St Dominic's Press). Evan Gill Bibliography 19; Skelton Eric Gill 'Checklist' 7.
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