Lot 208
Cranach Press.- Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, one of 200 copies on paper, from an edition limited to 268, presentation inscription to Evan Gill from Mary Ethel Gill, with and additional suite of 9 plates, [Weimar, Cranach Press], 1931
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Cranach Press.- Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, one of 200 copies on paper, from an edition limited to 268, presentation inscription to Evan Gill from Mary Ethel Gill to front free endpaper, with an additional suite of 9 plates (of 11) from the series, designed by Count Harry Kessler, printed in red and black in Jenson Antiqua, 11 wood-engraved illustrations and 18 initials by Eric Gill, 7 full-page, a little spotting to fore-edge (as usual), prospectus (a little spotted) loosely inserted along with small sheet of notes in Evan Gill's hand, newspaper clipping tipped onto rear endpaper, original vellum-backed boards and corner tips, t.e.g., others uncut, with the original dust-jacket and slip-case (jacket with spine browned and with tearing to head and foot of panels, case a little browned), [Evan Gill 284], tall narrow 8vo, [Weimar, Cranach Press], 1931.
⁂ Presented to Evan Gill by Eric Gill's widow in the year following his death.
The nine additional plates found here are: "Nigra sum sed Formosa" (signed and numbered 25/30, Physick 618), "Inter Ubera Mea" (662), "Transiliens Colles" (666), "Qui Pascitur Inter Lilia" (signed and numbered 6/15, 664), "Vadam ad Montem" (757), "Hortus Conclusus" (667), "Dilecti Mei Pulsantis" (668), "Invenerunt Me Custodes" (signed and numbered 3/15, 665), "Fuge, Dilecti Mi" (signed and numbered 2/15, 663).
Provenance: From the collection of Evan Gill, purchased directly from the estate.
Description
Cranach Press.- Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, one of 200 copies on paper, from an edition limited to 268, presentation inscription to Evan Gill from Mary Ethel Gill to front free endpaper, with an additional suite of 9 plates (of 11) from the series, designed by Count Harry Kessler, printed in red and black in Jenson Antiqua, 11 wood-engraved illustrations and 18 initials by Eric Gill, 7 full-page, a little spotting to fore-edge (as usual), prospectus (a little spotted) loosely inserted along with small sheet of notes in Evan Gill's hand, newspaper clipping tipped onto rear endpaper, original vellum-backed boards and corner tips, t.e.g., others uncut, with the original dust-jacket and slip-case (jacket with spine browned and with tearing to head and foot of panels, case a little browned), [Evan Gill 284], tall narrow 8vo, [Weimar, Cranach Press], 1931.
⁂ Presented to Evan Gill by Eric Gill's widow in the year following his death.
The nine additional plates found here are: "Nigra sum sed Formosa" (signed and numbered 25/30, Physick 618), "Inter Ubera Mea" (662), "Transiliens Colles" (666), "Qui Pascitur Inter Lilia" (signed and numbered 6/15, 664), "Vadam ad Montem" (757), "Hortus Conclusus" (667), "Dilecti Mei Pulsantis" (668), "Invenerunt Me Custodes" (signed and numbered 3/15, 665), "Fuge, Dilecti Mi" (signed and numbered 2/15, 663).
Provenance: From the collection of Evan Gill, purchased directly from the estate.
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