£5,544
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
depicting the Wife of Bath astride a horse, pen and ink with pencil, 14.5 x 12cm, signed and dated 'EG 7.8.30' lower right, annotated by Gill, captioned 'Design for tooled device on Vol. III of G. C. Press Canterbury Tales (vellum copies)' by him at foot, in double-aperture mount with an autograph letter signed by Gill commenting on the design and containing a pen-and-ink sketch showing an alternative design, framed and glazed
Provenance: Property of an English collector.