Author: ERIC GILL.
Title: The Song of Songs. Called by Many the Canticle of Canticles. [Edited and with a preface by Father John O'Connor] and with wood-engravings by Eric Gill
Description: Printed and published at The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, limited to 750 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper (this being 603). Small 4to. 42pp. Cream buckram lettered in gold at the spine. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. With eighteen sensual wood engravings and vignettes by Eric Gill, his first major work for the Golden Cockerel Press, his earliest attempt to illustrate a biblical narrative. Cloth a little marked and soiled in places. Free endpapers browned, and with some occasional unsightly spotting to the leaf margins, although no text or engravings are impacted. Quite a crisp and bright copy of this equally uncommon and handsome production. Lacking the fugitive dust wrapper. Good/No Jacket.

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