Lot 115
£3,780
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Folio (28.5 x 19cm), marbled paper wrappers, containing: 3 original sketches, i.e. [Two lovers], mixed media, 10.5 x 19cm, 'First love', pencil and watercolour, titled and dated (15th November 1928) in pencil at foot, 18.5 x 13.2cm, [Priapic Hermes], black and red ink, signed in pencil 'EG', 21.7 x 18.5cm; 6 wood-engravings, one inscribed in pencil 'D A from E G', various dimensions; and a photograph (gelatin silver print) of an erotic relief sculpture by Gill; all tipped in
Note: According to an accompanying typescript catalogue note by bookseller G. F. Sims the recipient of this album was Donald Attwater, Catholic writer and the author of Eric Gill: Workman (1945), the first work in a series of books titled Modern Christian Revolutionaries.
Provenance: Property of an English collector.