Dreyfus, John, Eric Gill, and Robert Gibbings
A Typographical Masterpiece: An Account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's Collaboration with Robert Gibbings in Producing the Golden Cockerel Press Edition of 'the Four Gospels' in 1931
London, Bain & Williams Limited, 1991. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. 41 beautiful figures in black-and-white augment this important, unusual volume, a 1991 reprint of the 1990 original published by The Book Club of California, with original publisher's glassine wraps still present, creasing to front flap edge. Extremely handsomely bound in heavy red cloth over boards, with gilt lettering and illustration to front cover, lettering to spine. Unusually, a sort of colophon is located inside front flap, noting that "the design on the front board is a combination of two elements, both by Eric Gill. The border was designed in 1931 for an edition of Aesop's Fables, but not used and is here slightly enlarged. The lettering is an arrangement by Gill of letters he cut for the Golden Cockerel Press in 1928, here reduced." Includes other works by Gill including mock-ups, proofs, and photographs of the production of The Four Gospels. Dreyfus writes interestingly of the origins and development of the collaboration between the two book artists at The Golden Cockerel Press. This is a Special Limited Edition of only 250 copies, "printed by Meridan-Stinchour Press, on Superfine Paper from the Mohawk Paper Mills. The duotone photographs are by Michael Arsenault. The text was composed in Linotronic Galliard designed by Matthew Carter." xii [1], 1-103 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New
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Keywords: Eric Gill|Robert Dreyfus|Robert Gibbings|The Golden Cockerel Press|fine bindings