Art and Manufacture. [Handworker's Pamphlets No.4.]

Bookseller Notes

With a 2pp. autograph letter from Eric Gill, dated 2nd October 1929 on Pigotts headed paper, to Ernest Ingham of the Fanfare Press - sending the manuscript of this work (not present), and asking him to 'please put printing in hand as soon as possible'; an 8-line post-scriptum clarifies the formatting for printing dictated by the manuscript. Gill promises the 'wood blocks as soon as Beedham has engraved them - these will be a 'design for the opening page, and a tail piece at the end, so you can get on with printing without waiting', although he will need to know the space available in order to execute the latter. He hopes to visit Ingham when in London on the coming Saturday. A note at the foot confirms that Philippe Mairet, of the New Handworker's Gallery and the contributor of the first in the series, 'accepts your price viz: 18.0.0 for 1000' - this and the P.S. are signed with initials, the letter itself 'Eric G'.