Firsts: The Library of Robin and Kathryn Smiley
Thu, Aug 17, 2023 12:00PM EDT
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Lot 368
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. [GILL, Eric (1882-1940), illustrat...
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[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. [GILL, Eric (1882-1940), illustrator]. The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I. [Waltham, Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Robert and Moira Gibbings at the] Golden Cockerel Press, 1921. LIMITED EDITION, 449 of 500 copies on Batchelor hand-made paper. CONSIDERED TO BE GILL?S MOST POWERFUL BOOK. ?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). Artist and the Book 122.
