- Wood-Engravings Being a Selection of Eric Gill's Engravings on Wood. No. 5 (Virgin and Child) Is a Wood Cut, Cut with a Knife on the Long Grain of the Wood Instead of with a Graver on the 'End' Grain

New York, E. Weyhe, 1924. No. 100 of 100 numbered copies (of a total run of 150 copies). Cloth. Linen oatmeal colored cloth with Brown-paper thick stock dustjacket. 36 leaves of hand-made paper including the half-title. 34 illustrations or woodcuts within the printed portion of the book, and an additional small (and pencil-signed) print of Madonna and Child pasted onto the title-page, over top of a red inked printed cross found on the English edition of this title. This image is different than image No. 5. and it is not referenced in the Contents. Limitation statement following the title-page states: "One hundred and fifty copies of this edition have been printed of which one hundred are numbered and offered for sale at 17$. 50c. This copy is no. 100." The English printing of this book has a slightly different title, as follows: " Wood-engravings being a selection of Eric Gill's engravings on wood. The first (Virgin and child) is a wood cut, that is cut with a knife on the long grain of the wood instead of with a graver on the "end" grain." [This was cut for a poster]." As such, it is unclear to me if the Weyhe edition was 150 copies, or if there were 150 copies combined of both printings. The English printing appears to lack the pasted-on image found on this copy of the Weyhe printing. Additionally, the English printing is much more widely held (41 copies) in public and institutional libraries, than is the Weyhe printing (9 copies) according to Worldcat. No other copies encountered mention the pasted-on signed image on the title-page. VG, few light smudges and the dustjacket is soiled but crisp and undamaged at the extremities with minor exceptions .

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