GILL, Eric

Eric Gill Wood Engravings titled ‘Woman and Ape’ and ‘Naked Man Fighting’

Description

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

Image Size 200 x 90mm (7.5 x 4 inches)

Sheet size 310 x 250mm  (12 x 9 inches)

Item details

‘Woman and Ape’
(Physick 511, Cleverdon 227, 21)
Decorative border on pages 23,32,78,98 , Vol:1; pages 31,64, 160,190, Vol.ll; pages 88,131, 170,, Vol.lll of Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’. No.63 of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press.
AND
‘Naked Man Fighting’
(Physick 512, Cleverdon 228, 21)
Decorative border on pages 33,57,83,99 , Vol:1; pages 75,143, 161, Vol.ll; pages 31,89, Vol.lll of Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’. No.63 of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press.

The woodcut was 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.