Item #162929 ERIC GILL FOR FATHER DESMOND. Eric Gill, John Dreyfus, Graham Williams.
ERIC GILL FOR FATHER DESMOND.
ERIC GILL FOR FATHER DESMOND.

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

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