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Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Small quarto. 15pp. One of 250 numbered copies. The text is illustrated with six wood engravings by Eric Gill. The engravings are beautifully rendered interpretations of scenes from the last day of Jesus's life, from his vigil at the Garden of Gethsemane, to.....

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(1924). Engraving on paper measuring 9 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. One of eleven copies signed by Gill in lower right corner. Matted and held within an unglazed frame. The third of a series of portraits of the Lowinsky family engraved by Gill. Very fine. (Physick 278).

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(Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1929). 32mo. (5)pp. With a cover illustration, dragon headpiece, and four square vignettes by Eric Gill, depicting a child's encounter with night-time fears. In this poem by Press founder Hilary Pepler, a boy asks his nurse if dragons, ghosts, and goblins exist as he is tucked.....

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NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. Octavo. First American edition. One of 1,000 copies comprised of sheets from the first edition with a new title page. This is Heaney's first commercially produced verse collection, preceded by Eleven Poems, a pamphlet published by Queen's University in Belfast. The future Nobel Laureate's richly.....

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(London): Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Tall octavo. (16)pp. One of 500 numbered copies. Illustrated with one full-page wood engraving and a four-line initial capital by Gill. This edition of Gill's "sermon," reflecting on the 136th Psalm, marks the first use of Gill's Perpetua Roman and Felicity Italic typefaces. Bound in.....

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(1928). Engraving on paper measuring 8 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches. One of ten copies signed by Gill in lower right corner. Matted and held within an unglazed frame. Two border decorations that appear in the Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Canterbury Tales. Very fine. (Physick 519; 520).

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Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1923. Quarto. (ii), 75pp. One of 220 copies, printed in red and black with musical notations. Contains twelve wood engravings by Eric Gill and two by Desmond Chute. The book was printed for actual use by Dominican novices. A copy was displayed in the permanent exhibition.....

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(1928). Engraving on paper measuring 8 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches. One of ten copies signed by Gill in lower right corner. Matted and held within an unglazed frame. Two border decorations that appear in the Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Canterbury Tales. Very fine. (Physick 513; 514).

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Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1934. Small quarto. 79pp. One of 250 copies, signed and numbered by the author, Hilary D. C. Pepler. An essay written and hand-printed by Pepler for the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago. Illustrated with two wood engravings by David Jones and many facsimile examples of.....

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Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1923. Octavo. vii, 26pp. First edition. Printed in red and black, with a preface and notes by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler. Illustrated with three wood engravings by David Jones and six by Gill. This is the fortieth St. Dominic's Press publication, and one of the.....

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(Ditchling: 1916). Engraving on paper measuring 2 3/4 inches, printed on a sheet of proofing paper measuring 7 3/4 by 6 5/16. Signed by Gill in lower right corner. Mounted and matted. This engraving was used in Mary Sat A-Working, published by St. Dominic's Press in 1916; it apeared again.....

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. Octavo. viii, 200pp. Illustrated with ten wood engravings by Eric Gill: three full-page, five half-page, and an ornamental device. Spine faded, else very good in green cloth. Laid in is a silhouette woodcut, signed by Gill, titled "Dumb-Driven Cattle." First produced in 1915, the woodcut was.....

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