Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1951). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), xviii, 418, (2) pages. First edition. Illustrated. Essays by Wroth, Warde, Dwiggins, Rogers, Ransom, Pollard, Grabhorn, Morison, Gill, Goudy and others. Near fine. READ MORE about BOOKS AND PRINTING, A TREASURY FOR TYPOPHILES
Price: $24.00 Order nr. 55400
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1963). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), xviii, 418, (2) pages. Reprint of the first edition. Illustrated. Essays by Wroth, Warde, Dwiggins, Rogers, Ransom, Pollard, Grabhorn, Morison, Gill, Goudy and others. Covers toned. READ MORE about BOOKS AND PRINTING, A TREASURY FOR TYPOPHILES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 32192
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1951). 8vo. cloth. (ii), xviii, 418, (2) pages. First edition. Illustrated. Essays by Wroth, Warde, Dwiggins, Rogers, Ransom, Pollard, Grabhorn, Morison, Gill, Goudy and others. Lacking the dust jacket. Front hinge starting. Else near fine. READ MORE about BOOKS AND PRINTING, A TREASURY FOR TYPOPHILES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 3079
Cambridge: Cardozo Kindersley Editions, 1989. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 96 pages. First edition. Contains a biographical introduction followed by descriptions of this craftsman's commissions from the clients first approach to the finished product. Well illustrated and with an interesting end note by Hermann Zapf on the design of the book. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about DAVID KINDERSLEY HIS WORK AND WORKSHOP
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 28577
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1987). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 168 pages. First U.S. edition. Describes the careers of the great type designers of this century - Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Dwiggins, Gill, Morison, etc. Well illustrated. Fine condition. READ MORE about TWENTIETH CENTURY TYPE DESIGNERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 62292
London: The Bodley Head, (1980). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 192 pages. First edition. Near fine. A delightful memoir by Crutchley who was University Printer at Cambridge University Press from 1946 to 1974. Includes anecdotes about Walter Lewis, Stanley Morison, Bruce Rogers, Eric Gill and others. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about TO BE A PRINTER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 12138
Boston: David R. Godine, (1995). 8vo. cloth. x, 339 +(1) pages. First edition. A compilation of writings on many aspects of printing and book design, chosen by the author. The topics are varied, and include eighteenth-& nineteenth-century studies, private presses, type design and manufacture, exhibitions and speculations. In an interesting chapter on twentieth-century typographers, the author discusses Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill, Bruce Rogers and several other well known printers. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. Handlist..... READ MORE about INTO PRINT, SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 45937
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, (1941). 8vo. cloth. 283 pages. First edition, third impression. Slightly rubbed. READ MORE about AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 78184
Saskatchewan, Canada: Chesterton Review, (1982). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. ii, 286-376 pages. Volume VIII, No. 4, November 1982. Table of contents and a loosely inserted piece of letterhead with an inscription by Aiden Mackey of Vintage Books. The entire issue is devoted to Eric Gill. There are a few black and white photos, letters, and typeface examples in this periodical. READ MORE about THE CHESTERTON REVIEW
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 124029
Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, (1973). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. x, 86 pages. First U.S. edition. Part of the Ars Typographica Library with James Moran as General Editor. Filled with examples of his calligraphy. READ MORE about ERIC GILL, THE MAN WHO LOVED LETTERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 29825
N.P. Monotype Recorder, 1990. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 39 + (1) pages. New series Autumn 1990 number eight. Issue of the Monotype Recorder that concentrates on the type design of Eric Gill. The text is profusely illustrated . The issue was set using Gill's own faces which had been adapted to the MonoText (computerized) system. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about ERIC GILL: THE CONTINUING TRADITION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 93477
London: Bain & Williams Ltd., 1993. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 51 pages. First edition, limited to 1070 copies. Eric Gill engraved this woodcut for his friend, Desmond Chute, in 1926 for Chute's ordination. Dreyfus gives an historical sketch of Chute and Gill while Williams describes the woodblock and the various states of the printed woodcut. READ MORE about ERIC GILL FOR FATHER DESMOND
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 40379
London: Anthony d' Offay, (1982). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 62, (2) pages. A centenary exhibition catalogue of the works of Eric Gill held in 1982. Spine faded, else fine. Includes several illustrations and a brief biography. Small booklabel in corner of inside front cover indicates that this volume came from the reference library of Monk Bretton Books.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about ERIC GILL 1882-1940
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56923
Cambridge, England: n.p., 1982. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Exhibition at Cambridge. With brief bibliography and acknowledgments. READ MORE about ERIC GILL 1882-1940: A HANDLIST OF AN EXHIBITIOIN AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MARCH TO MAY 1982
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 121249
New York: The Typophiles, 1956. oblong 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (10) pages. Designed and printed by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen at the Black Vine Press for the Typophiles. Bookplate on inside front cover. READ MORE about ERIC GILL, 1882-1940
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 19959
(Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto), 1991. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 54, (2) pages. Preface by staff of the university's rare book library and suggestions for further reading. Exhibition of Gill's work held at the University of Toronto. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations. Errata sheet laid in. Fine condition. READ MORE about ERIC GILL: HIS LIFE AND ART
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 121246
Boston: David R. Godine, (1988). 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 133 pages. Facsimile reprint of the revised 1936 edition, with a new introduction by Christopher Skelton. Discussion of composition, lettering, typography, punch-cutting, paper and ink, etc. An important essay. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Fine condition.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about AN ESSAY ON TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 24665
London: Cassell & Co., (1953). small 4to. cloth, top edge gilt. xv, 224 pages. First edition. Illustrated. For the collector of Eric Gill who wants all versions of the bibliography including the first edition. With a foreword by Walter Shewring. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ERIC GILL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 73478
Folkestone and London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973 (but 1974). small 4to. cloth. xv, 224 pages. Reprint of the 1953 edition. Illustrated. An important reference work on this English book illustrator. With a foreword by Walter Shewring. Covers rubbed. Top edge of the text block rubbed. Boards slightly warped. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ERIC GILL
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 87176
Folkestone & London, United Kingdom: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973. small 4to. cloth. xv, 224 pages. Reprint of the 1953 edition. Illustrated. An important reference work on this English book illustrator. With a foreword by Walter Shewring. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ERIC GILL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 6407
London: Cassell & Co., (1964). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 140 pages of text followed by 16 plates. First edition. Record of work incised into stone, painted upon wood and engraved in metal. Jacket slightly age darkened along edges. READ MORE about INSCRIPTIONAL WORK OF ERIC GILL, AN INVENTORY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 6409
Revised by D. Steven Corey and Julia Mackenzie.
Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1991. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 368 pages. Revised by D. Steven Corey and Julia Mackenzie. It is sixty years since the death of Eric Gill (1882-1940) and yet the reputation of this remarkable artist and thinker continues to grow. Famous for his stone carving, wood engraving, type designs and writing, he has also found a wide appeal amongst a younger generation who are sympathetic to his outlook on life -..... READ MORE about ERIC GILL, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 51852
London and New York: Wynkyn de Worde Society and The Sandstone Press, 1982. 12to. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 24 pages. Reprint of the 1967 Typophiles chapbook, with new material. Well illustrated. Corner bumped. Some fading of spine. READ MORE about ERIC GILL, FURTHER THOUGHTS BY AN APPRENTICE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 36025
New York: The The Book Club of California, 1967. 12mo. cloth. 26 pages. First edition, limited to 400 copies for the Book Club of California out of the total edition. A fine copy. Chapbook 44 of the Typophiles. READ MORE about MR ERIC GILL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56573
New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, (1989). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiii, 338 pages. First U.S. edition. An excellent biography which throws new light on the life of this great artist and craftsman. MacCarthy had access to Gill's unpublished diaries which were partly written in code and provide an interesting, sometimes shocking insight into his everyday life. A review in THE NEW YORK TIMES concluded "Few men have been better served by a biographer."..... READ MORE about ERIC GILL, A LOVER'S QUEST FOR ART AND GOD
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 114665
