Id Quod Visum Placet. A Practical Test of the Beautiful.

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Privately printed for Gill by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. No. 105 of an edition of 150 copies, hand-numbered and signed 'Eric Gill TSI' on the colophon. Illustrated with two full-page copper plate engravings by Gill: 'David' and 'Flying Buttresses'. 'Id Quod Visum Placet' was the first of several books by Gill which were printed at Waltham for publication by Douglas Cleverdon or Gill himself. ¶ Description: Quarter tan cloth with blue paper boards, white paper label with black lettering on the front board. Octavo: 20 × 12 cm; pp. [6 (frontispiece, title, prologue)], 19, [1] (colophon)]. Printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. Edges untrimmed. ¶ Provenance: Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper 'J. & R. from BW, January 22, 1927' and in pencil by Anonymous 'Presented by Beatrice Warde' (this statement cannot be verified). ¶ Ref.: Cave/Manson 44A; Skelton P372, P373 ¶ Condition: Some rubbing to extremities and slight wear to spine, boards slightly discolored (as usual). Pages tightly bound throughout and bright and clean. ¶.

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Título

Id Quod Visum Placet. A Practical Test of the Beautiful.

Editor

Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence

Fecha de publicación

1926

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Edición

1. Auflage

Estado

Gut bis sehr gut

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