Art & Love.

(Golden Cockerel Press.) GILL (Eric)

Art & Love.

Description: FIRST EDITION, 119/225 COPIES (from an overall edition of 260 copies) printed on Batchelor's handmade paper and signed by the author/illustrator, title with wood-engraved device, 6 full-page copperplate-engravings by Gill, small spot at upper fore-corner through 4 leaves, pastedown with gilt morocco bookplate, featuring bird of paradise, of C.S. Barlow, pp. [vi], 26, foolscap 8vo, original black buckram, backstrip gilt lettered, edges slightly rubbed, backstrip a little faded, small mark on rear board, rough-trimmed, a few spots on lower and fore-edge, very good

Publication Details: Bristol: (Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press for) Douglas Cleverdon, 1927

Notes: Printed by Robert Gibbings, not as a Golden Cockerel edition (though the cockerel device appears on the colophon leaf), but for the 24-year old Cleverdon, for whose bookshop signs Gill also designed a font which would later become Gill Sans. The engravings include several of Gill's most celebrated including 'Adam and Eve in Heaven...' and 'For dignity and adornment.'Charles Sydney Barlow, founder of the South African company Barlow Rand, was a cricketer (for Cambridge and Somerset), noted anti-apartheid campaigner and environmentalist, with three species of bird to his name....morePrinted by Robert Gibbings, not as a Golden Cockerel edition (though the cockerel device appears on the colophon leaf), but for the 24-year old Cleverdon, for whose bookshop signs Gill also designed a font which would later become Gill Sans. The engravings include several of Gill's most celebrated including 'Adam and Eve in Heaven...' and 'For dignity and adornment.'Charles Sydney Barlow, founder of the South African company Barlow Rand, was a cricketer (for Cambridge and Somerset), noted anti-apartheid campaigner and environmentalist, with three species of bird to his name. HIDE

Bibliography: (Gill, Corey & Mackenzie 14)