Eric Gill (illustrator)The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ [...] with decorations by Eric Gill Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931.
Folio (345 x 245mm), number 190 of 500 copies, 65 wood-engraved illustrations, pictorial headlines and initials by Eric Gill original half white pigskin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt, binding spotted
"Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings this is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer. A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustrator, Eric Gill the book among all books in which Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration." (Chanticleer 78)
Eric Gill (illustrator)The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ [...] with decorations by Eric Gill Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931.
Folio (345 x 245mm), number 190 of 500 copies, 65 wood-engraved illustrations, pictorial headlines and initials by Eric Gill original half white pigskin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt, binding spotted
"Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings this is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer. A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustrator, Eric Gill the book among all books in which Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration." (Chanticleer 78)
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