St Dominic's Press
Songs Without Clothes
£177
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Ditchling: St Dominic's Press, 1921. 8vo, original wrappers (slightly soiled), small mark to lower fore corners of early leaves [Evan Gill 8]
Footnote
Note: First edition, presentation copy from Eric Gill to his future son-in-law, inscribed by Gill 'Denis Tegetmeier from Eric Gill sd, 19.11.'21' in pencil on the initial blank. Denis Tegetmeier, a letterer, engraver, cartoonist and former Trappist monk, married Gill's daughter Petra in 1930. The print-run comprised 240 copies.
Provenance: Property of an English collector.