Eric Gill : His Social and Artistic Roots
Price: $75.00
Place Published: Iowa City
Publisher: The Prairie Press
Date Published: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Binding: quarter-cloth w/ paper boards
Condition: Fine
Book Id: 003186
Description
not paginated. The author was an admired calligrapher and a letterer who delivered an address to the Society of Typographic Arts at the Newberry Library, Chicago at the opening of a comprehensive show of the work of Eric Gill. Each page is headed by a colorful large letter, Perpetua Tilting Capitals, designed by Gill. The book was designed by Carroll Coleman; the body type is Joanna; two decorative letters on the title page are Floriated Capitals. All types designed by Gill; all hand-set. Frontispiece brush-drawn portrait of Eric Gill by Fr. Catich after a self-portrait wood engraving by Gill. The jacket is price clipped and has a small hole in the back panel.
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Price: $75.00