Eric Gill, R.E. 1882-1940.

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as Cleverdon, Birmingham, England, 1929 in an edition of 480 on wove paper. All three prints printed on the full sheet of cream wove paper (13 1/8 x 9 15/16). Unsigned. $200.

Drawings by Eric Gill, R.E. 1882-1940.

Secular

Bookplates

Bookplate for A.H.Tandy: A Stag. 1939. Pencil study for the wood engraving. Physick 839. 5 x 3 3/4 (sheet 5 7/16 x 4 15/16). Unsigned. $3,500.

Bookplate for John Vernon. Front: Design and Greek lettering. Verso: Even if this doesn't show 2 squares there's no reason why it shouldn't be better drawn." Monogrammed and dated 30.7.36. Two-sided drawing. Pencil recto and ink verso. 1936. 2 1/8 x 1 1/2. $2,250.

Design for The Good Samaritan. 1937. Drawing for a stone relief for Coventry Hospital. 6 3/16 x 5 (sheet 8 13/16 x 5 3/16). Drawn on a sheet from Essays in Orthodoxy, toned russet on the verso behind the figures. Annotated 'Coventry 2', '5 1/4" = 3'.0", 3.0 app' and dated '17.11.37' in pencil. For the stone relief, see Judith Collins, Eric Gill. The Sculpture, #277, page 212. $4,000.

Head Studies. Pencil drawings. 3 x 3 and 3 x 3 1/4 (sheet 7 5/16 x 4 3/16). Drawn on the cover of the novel Mam'zelle Flamberge, by Paul Féval. Unsigned. $500.

[Infringement of Rule No. 4]. Pen and ink drawing. 4 1/2 x 4 1/8 (sheet 9 x 6 7/8). Horizontal folds. Annotated verso, 'The sugested infringment of Rule No 4 has never been discussed by the Guild in my presence.' Unsigned. $1,250.

Interlaced device. Pencil and ink on brown paper. Verso: Pencil and crayon drawing of a woman, probably by Elizabeth Gill. $500.

Figure Studies: Nude Torso, two Crucifixes, woman's face, Woman at a table. (See Physick 259). Drawn on verso of a catalogue. $2,000.

Oxford Repertory Theatre. 1938. Pencil drawing. 2 5/16 x 2 5/8 (sheet 8 1/16 x 5 1/8). Drawn on the back of a page from Essays in Orthodoxy, with red watercolor. Dated '5.1.38.', titled and annotated '3/4" scale' and 'Just put sporren on and turn head to the way and make masks smaller' in pencil. Unsigned. $3,500.

Poem and cartoon:
Mary had a little Pam.Unsigned. Dated 26/5/27 in ink. Original poem, not previously published. $1,250. Reserved.

Postcard to Ernest F. Detterer. 1927. 3 1/2 x 4 7/16. $250.

[Self-Portrait - Nude]. Pencil drawing. 4 3/16 x 2 1/2 (sheet 7 5/8 x 3 1/2). Drawn on cream wove paper. Size annotations. Unsigned. $10,000.

Cover for Saint George's Hospital. Pencil, ink and chinese white on paper. 9 5/16 x 5 3/4 (image and sheet). The Gazette, Volume 31, No. 6, June 1936. Initialed and dated, lower right. $4,500.

Religious

A Hart. 1939. Pencil and ink study for the wood engraving used as the Ordination card for Dr. Broomfield and Last Essays. Physick 988. 4 5/8 x 2 1/2 (sheet 7 3/16 x 5 7/8). Drawn on cream wove paper. Initialed, dated and annotated 'Photo same size on wood'; annotated verso, 'wall crucifix for L. Chapel' in pencil. Unsigned. $3,500.

Moses Holding the Tablets of the Law. Pencil drawing. 5 x 1 (sheet 8 3/4 x 5 5/8). Drawn on cream wove paper. Unsigned. $2,250.

Mother and Child - Facing Left. Pencil drawing. 4 1/4 x 1. Another drawing on the verso, Mother and Child- Facing Right. 3 3/4 x 3/4 (sheet 8 3/4 x 5 5/8). Drawn on cream wove paper. Unsigned. $2,250.

Mother and Child - Facing Right. Pencil drawing. 7 1/2 x 2 3/4. A sketch on the verso, Mother - Facing Right. 7 7/8 x 3 (sheet 8 x 5 1/4). Drawn on cream wove paper. Unsigned. $2,750.

Optima Hilari. Pencil drawing. 4 1/8 x 3 1/8. With a pencil study on the verso, [Christ with Upraised Arms]. 4 1/16 x 2 7/8 (sheet 6 x 4 7/8). Drawn on cream laid watermarked paper. Unsigned. $2,750.

St. Thomas's Hands. Pencil drawings. 3 x 4 1/2 (sheet 3 3/8 x 5). Related to Physick 382 and 889. Drawn on tan wove paper. Unsigned. $2,000.

[Seated Monk]. Pencil drawing. 6 5/8 x 2 1/2. Another drawing verso, [Angel and Seated Figure]. 1 1/4 x 1 3/4 (sheet 7 x 4 1/16). Drawn on cream wove paper. Unsigned. $1,250.

Sequence Ending. Ink on 'Arch[es]' countermarked paper. 1 7/8 x 2 3/4 (sheet 6 x 4 7/16). Signed in ink, upper right. Unpublished original work. $1,250.

Letterhead

Letterhead for Ditchling Common, Sussex. 7 x 9. Printed on cream wove paper. Blindstamp, top center, 'Chiswick Press, 20 and 2 Tooks Court, Chancery Lane'. Unsigned. $125.

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Device and Receipt. Two sheets:

#53. To
PLEASE RECEIVE FROM A.E.R GILL

#54. RECEIVED FROM
the sum of
pounds
shillings and ...pence.
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Sheets 5 x 6 5/16. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Unsigned. $125.

Design for paper: 'Fieldwick's Superfine Shag. Ditchling'. Ink on brown wove paper. 2 7/8 x 3 1/8 (sheet 4 5/16 x 5 11/16). Mounted on backing sheet that is annotated verso, 'By Eric Gill from Leonard Baskin Collection given owner to L.B. on 10/12/73' in ink. Unsigned. $1,250.

Keymer and District Land Club Receipt. 1908. Wood engraving. Related to Physick 36. 2 3/4 x 5 1/2 (sheet 3 1/2 x 7). Printed on cream paper with a partial countermark. Unsigned. $75.

Letterheading for Great Maytham, Rolvenden.

1. Single Typeface. Sheet 7 x 5 1/2.
2. 4 Typefaces. Sheet 6 3/8 x 5 1/2. $100.

Letterhead for II Oak Hill Park, Frognal, Hampstead. Sheet 10 x 8. Printed on cream laid Chiswick Press watermarked paper. 2 Sheets, 1 annotated in pencil, 'Res this paper all Caslon' and in ink, 'Caslons old face' twice, and also in ink 'Rearrange this like this:___
Telephone: 4075
P.O. Hampstead.' Unsigned. $225.

Letterhead for William A. Pite, F.R.I.B.A, 116 Jermyn Street, St. James's, London - S.W. 4 1/16x 8 1/8 (irregular trimmed margins). Printed on Royal Bond paper. Pencil annotations by Gill, 'dalou one zize only'. Unsigned. $175.

Letterhead for I, Pump Court, Temple E.C. 7 1/8 x 4 1/2. Printed on cream wove paper. Unsigned. $75.

Letterhead for Reigate and Redhill Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society. Sheet 9 x 7. Printed on cream wove paper. Fold across the middle. Unsigned.

Letterhead for The Serendipity Shop. Pencil and ink. 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 (sheet 4 7/8 x 6 3/16). Drawn on graph paper. Extensively annotated; the second and third lines cut out and inserted from the verso. A fascinating working study. Unsigned. $1,500.

Eric Gill was a painter, sculptor, typeface designer and printmaker associated with the Arts and Crafts movement in England. He was one of the greatest and most influential wood engravers of the 20^th century. His work is dominated by two overriding themes, religion and eroticism. A true artist-craftsman, Eric Gill established a community at Ditchling in Sussex where he practiced sculpture, wood engraving, and founded the St. Dominic's Press. He designed the Gill Sans typeface in 1927-30, based on the sans-serif lettering originally designed for the London Underground. The elegant typeface is still used today.

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