GILL, Eric

Eric Gill Wood Cuts titled ‘Girl in Skirt Facing Right’ and  ‘Girl in Skirt, Full Face’

Description

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

Image size 190 x 90mm  (7.5 x 4 inches)
Sheet size 310 x 250mm  (12 x 9 inches)

Item details

‘Girl in Skirt Facing Right.’

(Physick 466, Cleverdon 184, 16)
Decorative border on pages 120, 132, 186, 226, 256, 302 Chaucer’s ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ No. 50
of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927.

AND

‘Girl in Skirt, Full Face.’
(Physick 467, Cleverdon 185, 16)
Decorative border on pages 133,187, 227, 257, 303 Chaucer’s ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ No. 50
of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927.

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.