SONNETS AND VERSES.
Pp. [viii]+36(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), wood-engraved title page vignette and 7 illustrations by Eric Gill (3 full page); tall demy 8vo; qr. natural linen, printed paper title label on spine, blue/grey papered boards, slightly scuffed, edges and fore-corners chipped and lightly worn, the spine browned, title label chipped; upper hinge starting at head, the endpapers faintly soiled, a little light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1925. Edition limited to 450 numbered copies on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Chanticleer 25; Gill 274. *Signed by the poet (dated August 19, 1925) on the upper free endpaper above the later bookplate of Janeta Gill - perhaps a relative? (Enid Clay was a sister of Eric Gill). From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label below the earlier bookplate of Scottish writer and literary agent Giles Alexander Esme Gordon (1940-2003). Item #162924
Price: $750.00