eric gill introduction (33 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Hardcover 1st edition in this format, 4th impression. The book itself, with blue boards and silver titles, is in excellent shape. The dust jacket a little edgeworn and rubbed, and is price clipped. Last Essays was published posthumously by Jonathan Cape in London in 1942, two years after Eric Gill's death in November 1940. It is a slender volume of roughly 93 pages, illustrated with woodcuts and engravings, and carries an introduction by Gill's wife, Mary. The book brings together a collection of pieces written in the final period of Gill's life, some of which had not previously appeared in print. The contents include essays on Art, Work, Private Property, Education for What?, Peace and Poverty, Art in Education, Five Hundred Years of Printing, The Leisure State, and Secular and Sacred in Modern Industry.The essays are characteristic of Gill's broader intellectual project: a sustained attack on industrialism, the dehumanization of labour, and the separation of art from everyday working life. Gill was prophetic in his predictions about industrialism and capitalism, and deeply insightful on the relation of art to work, culture, industry, and God. Running through the collection is the argument that mechanized mass production had reduced the worker to a subhuman condition, stripping labour of its dignity and meaning. Gill believed that a genuine civilization could only be built on the foundation of craftwork, in which the hand and the mind remained united in the making of useful and beautiful things. These were not new ideas for Gill, but the essays in this volume represent his final articulation of them, written as his health was failing and as Europe descended into the Second World War, circumstances that lent his warnings about the consequences of industrial capitalism an additional urgency. The book went through multiple impressions, a measure of its readership during the war years, when questions about the nature of work, the relationship between the individual and the state, and the moral foundations of civilization were very much on people's minds. In 1947, Last Essays was brought together with an earlier collection, In a Strange Land, in a single volume presenting the first complete collection of Gill's essays.Eric Gill was born on February 22, 1882, in Brighton, Sussex, and died on November 17, 1940, in Uxbridge, Middlesex. He was a British sculptor, engraver, typographic designer, and writer, especially known for his elegantly styled lettering and typefaces and the precise linear simplicity of his stone carving.After an inventory following his death, his output was found to include over 750 carved inscriptions, more than 100 stone sculptures and reliefs, 1,000 engravings, several typeface designs, and 300 printed works including books, articles, and pamphlets.Gill was also a deeply controversial figure. In his personal diaries, Gill described his sexual abuse of his adolescent daughters, an incestuous relationship with at least one of his sisters, and bestiality. This aspect of Gill's life was little known beyond his family and friends until the publication of the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy. Since those revelations, his legacy has been fiercely debated. Some institutions have removed or recontextualized his work; others continue to display it while acknowledging his crimes. The tension between the unquestionable significance of his artistic and typographic achievements and the gravity of his personal conduct remains unresolved. Regarding his wife Mary, Her contribution to Last Essays, the brief introduction she wrote for the 1942 volume, represents one of the few occasions on which her own voice entered the public record. As the person closest to Gill throughout his adult life and working career, she was uniquely placed to provide context for these final writings. The introduction allowed her to frame her late husband's last essays for readers who were encountering his ideas in the aftermath of his death, and to.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket is sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are sunned and bumped, with a nick to the rear lower board edge. Page block is lightly blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the facsimile of the 1936 second edition with the Joanna typeface designed by Gill in 1930. 13pp new introduction by Christopher Skelton. Slight age toning to the pages otherwise a fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Appears unread.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Grey cloth printed in red, DW, large 12mo., 57, (4) pages, wood engraved illustrations. Fifth reprint, printed at the Ditchling Press. A clean, near fine copy in soiled and edgeworn DW.

Reprint. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 93 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subjects; Gill, Eric 1882-1940 ; Essays. Art Philosophy. Art and industry; Moral and ethical aspects. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Facsimile of 2nd ed. published London, Sheed & Ward, 1936. 133 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Fifth edition. Green boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing. 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches. 133 pages with introduction by Christopher Skelton. VERY FINE. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding firm and square. Without tears, bumps. creases or chips. But for tanning throughout to paper, not marked and very clean and bright. Dust jacket AS NEW. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed. AS NEW. All corners pointed. Binding firm, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Reprint. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 93 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subjects; Gill, Eric 1882-1940 ; Essays. Art Philosophy. Art and industry; Moral and ethical aspects. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Good ++. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dustjacket. Illustrated By Eric Gill Ilustrador. First in This Edition. 218 pages No dustjacket. Two B&W plates by Eric Gill (as called for). Very clean red hardback binding with faded gilt-coloured titles to spine which is also colour-faded. Ink name and dateto flyleaf. Light wear/rubs to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges lightly browned o/w pages clean.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. A very good copy, of the fifth edition, first printing of this seminal essay on typography. Dust Jacket: coloured paper with cream coloured lettering on red to front, and on green to rear, spine cream coloured with red lettering; red and green lettering to cream coloured flaps; very clean and bright, very few signs of shelf wear (now protected). Cover: dark green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, very clean and bright, few if any signs of shelf wear. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no markings, inscriptions or book plates; overall in extremely good condition. Black and white examples of typography throughout. xvi, 144 pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. 1st Thus. pp 56 + advertisements. 5th printing.

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Eric Gill Ilustrador. 2nd Edition. Original cream dust-jacket with black titles, one or two little chips to the top edge, price corner clipped although price remains (6s 6d), very tidy having been kept in a clear protective cover. Book buind in green/grey cloth with title in red along the spine, clean bright and square. Hinge firm, no inscriptions, end papers darkened thereafter pages are smooth clean and clear, with illustrations throughout by Eric Gill.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Buckram. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. A very good (although ex Library) of this small treatise on wood engraving and printing originally published by the Ditchling Press in 1921, now in its second Edition published by Faber in 1946. No Dust Jacket: (as issued?). Cover: blue Buckram covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and 'Colwyn Bay Public Library' blind stamped to rear; in very good condition for its age; clean and bright, no marks, just a small amount of edge wear commensurate with age and use. InternallY; very clean and tightly bound; library 'withdrawn' stamp and some lettering to edition page, no other library stamps, marks or inscriptions; very slight darkening to page edges. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 58 pp. plus 4 pp. advertising material.

Decorative Hardcover in Slip C. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Richard Cotton & David Playne (Design) Ilustrador. 78 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external and overall wear and use. Copy with clean text. Slight damage to fore edge of back cover. No dust jacket. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Quarter natural linen with tan printed paper-covered boards, small 8vo., viii, 40 pages. 31 in-text woodcut figures, with 5 Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. A better than very good copy, with slight cover use.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Reprint. Unblemished scarlet boards and spine lettered in gilt. Some soiling ored and cream jacket; the spine browned with a 5 mm split at top; the four leading corners rubbed. Internally faint foxing to front end papers. No other faults.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Eric Gill Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Limited edition of 550 of which 500 for sale. SIGNED by Eric Gill. Illustrated with four full page engravings by Gill. Black binding with gilt lettering and decorative device by Gill. Gold dust jacket complete small closed tear with edge wear to top and base. Now in a protective plastic cover. Internally clean apart from slight browning to end papers. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, incl. engraved frontis, title page vignette and three further illustrations from drawings by Gill. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, silver-stamped Gill-designed motif to upper board (reproduced on DJ in orange and title page in black). Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Slight lean to spine, pushing and gentle wear to spine ends. Top edge dusty, others foxed. POI to ffep: "George Gill, from D. P., Xmas 1942," some foxing, else, clean and tight. In the original beige typographical dust jacket, printed in black and orange: spine darkened and rubbed, spine ends chipped, gently soiled, creased and nicked. Very good/ good+ A tight first edition copy of Eric Gill's final, posthumously published volume of essays, with an introduction by his wife Mary Gill; with a seemingly unconnected contemporary PO inscription to: "George Gill, from D. P., Xmas 1942".

First edition, first printing Lovely red boards. Fine in very close to fine illustrated by Gill dustjacket with crisp bright text. Everything intact including the original price. Profusely illustrated and graphic by Gill. Gift quality.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo. viii. 40pp. + 31 wood engravings, 5 of which are by Eric Gill, several by Desmond Chute and others. Bound in a quarter cloth over paper covered boards. [GILL II/77.] VERY GOOD. Shows shelf rubbing along the edges and corners with just a hint of loss, spine somewhat toned, the slightest hint of toning to the endpapers, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and engravings are clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.

Copy number '434' of an edition limited to 550 copies (of which 50, numbered 1-50, were special copies). The text pages are printed letterpress in Perpetua type by Christopher Skelton and Alan Bultitude at The September Press; the pages of the Alphabet Book are reproduced and printed offset litho by Adrian Lack at Senecio Press. The paper is Mohawk Superfine Text. Quarter red cloth over patterned paper covered boards housed in an original blue paper slipcase. Narrow Quarto, 265 x 170 mm, pp. [1-4] 5-15 [blank] [ alphabets, title page] [blank] [index] [blank] 26 pages of finely produced facsimile printed on the rectos only [colophon]. A book and slipcase in Fine condition.

Condición: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original grey paper covered boards, paper title and author lettering label to the olive green cloth spine. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains [vi] 196 printed pages of text with one full-page monochrome block on page 165 which has been engraved on wood by Eric Gill after the original. Old small humidity stain to the inside rear gutter, small rubs to the corners and spine ends, without any ownership markings and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. WINES, BEERS & SPIRITS.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Black cloth gilt, 8vo., xiv, 26 pages, four full-page engravings by Eric Gill. One of 550 numbered copies. Signed by Eric Gill. Printed from Banyan type on Barcham Green handmade paper. A near fine copy with one faint mark to the front board, light toning to the endpapers and a tiny booksellers label. Signed by Artist.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Very Good (-), without dust jacket. Binding tight but spoine badly worn and splitting. Previous owner's label on front paste-down with name crossed out and signature of silversmith and Ditchling Guild member Dunstan Pruden added.

Copy number '26' of 50 special copies numbered 1 to 50 (from a total edition of 550 copies) these only, having been bound by Clare Skelton and signed by Douglas Cleverdon. The text pages are printed letterpress in Perpetua type by Christopher Skelton and Alan Bultitude at The September Press; the pages of the Alphabet Book are reproduced and printed offset litho by Adrian Lack at Senecio Press. The paper is Mohawk Superfine Text. Quarter black morocco over patterned paper covered boards. Black cloth portfolio containing an extra complete set of facsimile of the Gill Alphabet Book. All housed in the original red cloth slipcase. Narrow Quarto, 265 x 170 mm, pp. [1-4] 5-15 [blank] [ alphabets, title page] [blank] [index] [blank] 26 pages of finely produced facsimile printed on the rectos only [colophon]. A book, portfolio and slipcase, all in Fine condition.325.

Condición: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original faux white morocco cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered olive back, olive initials to the front board. 8vo. 10'' x 7''. Composed in 14 point Linotype Pilgrim a type face based on a design by Eric Gill. Hand written 'This special edition of my father's first studies in the nude is limited to 100 copies' | This copy being number 62. Contains 3 pp introduction followed by 24 full-page single-sided reproductions of sketches by Eric Gill. Double SIGNED below the limitation note being signed by the artist's son 'Gordian Gill' and 'John Rothenstein' who wrote the Introduction. Light spotting to the edges of the white covers, off-setting to the end papers. Very Good condition book in acetate dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British].

, no.277 of a limited edition of 300, signed by Christopher Sandford, printed on F.J. Head's hand-made paper, 112 pages, woodcuts throughout Limited Edition , light rubbing to boards and spine ends, spine faded, internally clean, binding firm, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, very good condition , quarter morocco, patterned cloth, gilt titles to spine , 27 cm x 17 cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN: