ERIC GILL FOR FATHER DESMOND.
Pp. 52(last blank), title page vignette, text illustrations (2 full page, being portraits of Eric Gill and Desmond Chute), notes and references; tall demy 8vo; qr. black leather, spine lettered in gilt, tan cloth boards with pictorial label at centre of upper board; with a matching qr. leather and cloth portfolio housing 2 proof plates; both within a tan cloth slipcase; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown of text volume; Bain & Williams Ltd, London, 1993. One of 70 special copies (total edition 1,000), with a letterpress proof from the original wood block and an intaglio proof from an electro of the block. *The story of a wood block engraved by Eric Gill for Desmond Chute's ordination. Desmond Chute (1895-1962) was an artist, poet, and close friend of Gill, who described Chute as 'the only man and therefore the only priest with whom I have been able to talk without shame and without reserve' [quoted on p. 118]. Item #162929
Price: $400.00