GILL, Eric

‘The Reeve’s Tale’ by Eric Gill

Description

Eric Gill Wood Engraving.

A unsigned wood engraving as published in Douglas Cleverdon edition ‘Engravings 1928-1933 by Eric Gill’. The wood engraving was printed the original woodblock by Gill and Hague in 1934. This edition is rare and was printed in a small edition size. The sheet has some light foxing which I am unable to photograph and some old soft handling folds, all of which are in the margins, else good.

Image Size 200 x 140 mm  (7.5 x 5.5 inches)
Paper size 210 x 310 mm  (9 x 12 inches)

Item details

woode engravings as an illustration for page 132 in volume 1 of Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, published by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1929. The woodcut was printed from the original woodblock for the Douglas Cleverdon edition ‘Engravings 1928-1933 by Eric Gill’, page 29, printed by Gill and Hague, published by Faber & Faber Ltd in 1934. This edition is rare and was printed in a small edition size.

Reference: Physick 543, Cleverdon 259,29.