Lot 164
Gill (Eric) Pencil and pen and ink designs for Evan Gill bookplate, 1920
Hammer Price: £550
Description
Gill (Eric) Pencil and pen and ink designs for Evan Gill's bookplate, comprising 2 initial sketches in pencil; one fully-worked design in pen and ink, heightened with white, with Gill's notes in pencil to margins along with another pen and ink drawing of a leaf; the finished wood-engraving; Eric Gill's invoice for the work signed at foot by Hilary Pepler; Evan Gill's payment with stamps, initialled by Eric Gill, each individually mounted on two leaves, light folds.
⁂ Eric Gill's complete and detailed working designs for his brother's early bookplate showing the work developing from simple outline to detailed final work (Physick 171).
Provenance: From the collection of Evan Gill, purchased directly from the estate.
Description
Gill (Eric) Pencil and pen and ink designs for Evan Gill's bookplate, comprising 2 initial sketches in pencil; one fully-worked design in pen and ink, heightened with white, with Gill's notes in pencil to margins along with another pen and ink drawing of a leaf; the finished wood-engraving; Eric Gill's invoice for the work signed at foot by Hilary Pepler; Evan Gill's payment with stamps, initialled by Eric Gill, each individually mounted on two leaves, light folds.
⁂ Eric Gill's complete and detailed working designs for his brother's early bookplate showing the work developing from simple outline to detailed final work (Physick 171).
Provenance: From the collection of Evan Gill, purchased directly from the estate.