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.
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.
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