£429
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
1) The Common Carol Book. A Collection of Christmas and Easter Hymns. Ditchling: S. Dominic's Press, 1926. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 225, this copy annotated 'Press copy' on the limitation page, 8vo, original quarter linen, Eric Gill's pencilled monogram 'EG' to front free endpaper, piece of manuscript music laid in (titled 'A Carol of the XIV Stations of the +', signed Dom Ambrose Holly, O.S.B., addressed to Petra, presumably Eric Gill's daughter, at upper left, spotted, dimensions 11.5 x 14cm) [Evan Gill 391; his copy was in quarter linen as here, but the book was issued in black quarter cloth];
2) Christianity and Art. The Frontispiece engraved by David Jones. Capel-y-ffin: Francis Walterson, 1927. First edition thus, number 82 of 200 copies signed by Eric Gill and David Jones, 8vo, original blue buckram, inscribed in pencil 'from E.G. Christmas 1929' on front free endpaper in an unknown hand, spine sunned [Evan Gill 13];
3) The Devil's Devices or Control versus Service. By Douglas Pepler with Woodcuts by Eric Gill. Hammersmith: Hampshire House Workshops, 1915. First edition, trade issue, one of 1300 copies, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, laid-in slip ('I have been grieved' mentioned in Evan Gill as tipped to the limitation page of 'proof' copies [Evan Gill 259: 'This is no. 1 of St. Dominic's Press publications'];
4) Autumn Midnight by Frances Cornford. London: [at St Dominic's Press for] the Poetry Bookshop, 1923. First edition, 8vo, original quarter morocco, wood-engravings by Eric Gill (including title-vignette printed in green), some wear to spine and tips [Evan Gill 273, recording bindings in paper wrappers only];
5) Songs to our Lady of Silence. Ditchling: S. Dominic's Press, 1921. Second edition, 8vo, original green cloth, wood-engraved title-device by Gill, wood-engravings in text by Desmond Chute [Evan Gill 376, recording a binding of a 'linen spine with plain brown paper boards' only];
6) The Philosophy of Art. Being "Art et Scholastique" by Jacques Martain, translated by the Rev. John O'Connor, with an Introduction by Eric Gill. Ditchling: S. Dominic's Press, 1923. First edition, one of 400 copies, contemporary orange quarter morocco with linen sides (probably an original binding by the Guild), edges untrimmed, 2 wood-engravings by Eric Gill [Evan Gill 85, recording a binding of paper wrappers only]
Provenance: Property of an English collector.