Lot 122
Gill (Eric) Autograph Letter, signed, single page, together with another page with original design for the cover of the Golden Cockerel Press, Canterbury Tales (vol.3), 1930.
Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000
Description
Gill (Eric) Autograph Letter, signed, single page, to 'Dear Sirs' writing at the request of 'Mr [Robert] Gibbings to send you a design for the tooled device on the covers of the vellum copies of the Canterbury Tales vol.iii' and explaining how cross-hatching should be utilised if the 'parts I have suggested to be solid cannot be so done' together with another page with the original design of the Wife of Bath astride a horse with his instruction notes, captioned, initialled and dated at foot, mounted together, 1930.
Description
Gill (Eric) Autograph Letter, signed, single page, to 'Dear Sirs' writing at the request of 'Mr [Robert] Gibbings to send you a design for the tooled device on the covers of the vellum copies of the Canterbury Tales vol.iii' and explaining how cross-hatching should be utilised if the 'parts I have suggested to be solid cannot be so done' together with another page with the original design of the Wife of Bath astride a horse with his instruction notes, captioned, initialled and dated at foot, mounted together, 1930.