Item #900987 The Life of Eric Gill. Robert Speaight.
The Life of Eric Gill
The Life of Eric Gill

The Life of Eric Gill

New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1966.
First Edition. Hardcover.

First Edition.

A biography of stone carver, type designer (his “Perpetua” is used in this book), and polemicist Eric Gill – drawn from his personal diaries and extant papers. The work touches, too, on his religiosity and efforts to retore a sense of personal responsibility to the 20th-century worker and a greater dignity to their work. His life was rich in ideas and personalities including many colorful luminaries of his period, from artists like Epstein and Maillot to the Chesterbelloc and Dominican Vincent McNabb. The evolution of Gill’s ideas and of his creative style is counterpointed by his spiritual maturation in the Catholic Church.

Item #900987

6-1/8 x 9-1/4”, black cloth, xviii, 323pp, appendix, bibliography, index of life and works, general index, illus.

Fine in very good price-clipped dust wrapper with a bit of rubbing and a ¼” tear top-edge of front panel, in protective mylar.

Price: $25.00