GILL, Eric

Eric Gill Wood Engravings titled ‘Naked Man Dead’ and ‘Woman Weeping for Dead Man’

Description

Two Eric Gill Wood Engravings on One Sheet.

Two wood engravings printed on one sheet as published by Douglas Cleverdon edition ‘Engravings 1928-1933 by Eric Gill’,  printed by Gill and Hague. The sheet does have some soft handling folds, otherwise in very good condition.

Image Size  190 x 95 mm  (7.7 x 3.5 inches)
Page size    210 x 310 mm  (9 x 12 inches)

Item details

‘Naked Man Dead’
(Physick 569, Cleverdon 284,27)
A border for pages 22, 36, 154, 186 of Vol.ll; pages 12,76, 97, 135, 160, Volume lll; pages 58, volume lV of Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929. No.63 of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press.

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‘Woman Weeping for Dead Man’
(Physick 570, Cleverdon 285,27)
A border for pages 23, 37, 155, of Vol.ll; pages 137,147, 193, Volume lll; pages 59, volume lV of Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929. No.63 of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press.

The woodcuts were subsequently printed from the original woodblock for the Douglas Cleverdon edition ‘Engravings 1928-1933 by Eric Gill’, printed by Gill and Hague, published by Faber & Faber Ltd in 1934. This edition is rare and was printed in a small edition size.