GILL, Eric

‘The Monk’s Tale’ by Eric Gill

Description

Eric Gill wood engraving for Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’

Printed from an original wood block  by Gill and Hague in 1934 for Douglas Cleverdon edition ‘Engravings 1928-1933 by Eric Gill’ . These woodcuts were printed in an edition size of 400 copies on machine made paper.  The sheet has some very light handling folds, else good.
Image size 140 x190 mm
Page size 210 x 310 cm

Item details

Reference: Physick 600, Cleverdon 310, 38The wood engraving was originally cut to form the initial letter ‘W’ and an illustration on page 134 of ‘Canterbury Tales’ published by The Golden Cockerel Press, in 1929.