£6,930
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
With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31. First edition, one of 485 copies on hand-made paper, 4 volumes, folio, original orange quarter niger by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, patterned paper sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, decorative borders throughout comprising figures entwined in leaf sprays, occasionally extending into line-fillings, 21 half-page vignettes, one full-page illustration, tailpieces, initials printed in red, black and blue, bookplates (T. Birkett), corners bumped and worn [Evan Gill 281]
Note: This copy with an original pen-and-ink sketch of the Golden Cockerel Press emblem, marked up for printing in pencil and signed by Eric Gill lower right ('E G, 6:7:28'), on laid paper (mounted on tissue paper, spotted and browned).
Provenance: Property of an English collector.