beedham john eric gill (16 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Thus. pp 56 + advertisements. 5th printing.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Reprint. 1946. Reprint. 57pp., 27 figures within the text, 4 illustrations of wood engravings, and 4 pages of advertisements. This book is not a treatise upon the art of wood-engraving. it is simply a description of the tools and materials required by a beginner and the methods of using them. It was written at the insistence of Eric Gill, who has contributed an introduction. The author was apprenticed to one of the old-established firms of wood-engravers in London and was for some years instructor in Engraving at the London County Council School, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. The book is bound in the original grey cloth covered boards with red titling on the spine. The book is in very good condition and the contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling. Very small pieces are missing from the corner tips and up to about 1/8" is missing from the spine ends. The top edge is rubbed with a tear of about 1/2" near the top front edge and there is chipping with a small bit of loss on the top rear edge.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Eric Gill (illustrateur). 2nd Edition. collation: (Advertising leaf : T N Lawrence, Blockmaker), 8 preliminary pages, 36 pages, illustrated with 32 engravings, very good condition in paper covered boards and cloth spine, top corners of boards bumped, repaired edge tear on pp iii/iv, spine slightly darkened and stained, pages in clean condition. Seven page illustrated catalogue from T N Lawrence loosely inserted at rear; with a small advertising sheet from the printers, Charles Mitchell Ltd, printed on hand-made Japanese paper, fine condition.

Cloth. Etat : Good Plus. Etat de la jaquette : Good Minus. Jacket rubbed, chipped, and tanned. Some light spotting to cloth and closed edges, but contents VG Size: 12mo.

Buckram. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. A very good (although ex Library) of this small treatise on wood engraving and printing originally published by the Ditchling Press in 1921, now in its second Edition published by Faber in 1946. No Dust Jacket: (as issued?). Cover: blue Buckram covered boards with gilt lettering to spine and 'Colwyn Bay Public Library' blind stamped to rear; in very good condition for its age; clean and bright, no marks, just a small amount of edge wear commensurate with age and use. InternallY; very clean and tightly bound; library 'withdrawn' stamp and some lettering to edition page, no other library stamps, marks or inscriptions; very slight darkening to page edges. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 58 pp. plus 4 pp. advertising material.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Quarter natural linen with tan printed paper-covered boards, small 8vo., viii, 40 pages. 31 in-text woodcut figures, with 5 Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. A better than very good copy, with slight cover use.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback, quarter cloth, black paper covered boards. No dust-wrapper. 20.5cm x 14cm. viii, 33pp. With 32 illustrations. First printed 1921 on copyright page, but title page says MCMXXV (1925). Spine is somewhat foxed, boards a little marked. Small spot to title page and page opposite, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Tan paper over boards with black lettering and illustration; black cloth spine; iv, 43 pp; untrimmed pages, bw illustrations. Introduction and appendix by Eric Gill. Good+ (light shelfwear overall and foxing spots to boards, pages are clean and clear.).

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp viii, 40, 31 plates, including five wood engravings by Gill who also writes the eight page introduction. Original publishers grey boards, lettered black with blind decorated spine (Evan Gill gives the spine as cloth, which suggests that this is possibly a variant issue). Slight rubbing at foot of spine and starting to split with covers a little marked, otherwise about very good.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo. viii. 40pp. + 31 wood engravings, 5 of which are by Eric Gill, several by Desmond Chute and others. Bound in a quarter cloth over paper covered boards. [GILL II/77.] VERY GOOD. Shows shelf rubbing along the edges and corners with just a hint of loss, spine somewhat toned, the slightest hint of toning to the endpapers, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and engravings are clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.

Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.25"), cloth spine, printed paper over boards. [4], viii, 40 pp., emblem of S. Dominic's Press and one wood-engraving by Gill, other engravings by the author and Desmond Chute. Bookplate of "Wyman Parker" on front pastedown, also ticket on ffep reading: "This book can be supplied by the Dryad Works, Handicraft Department 42 St. Nicholas Street, Leicester." CONDITION: Good, spine slightly browned, corners slightly curled, endpapers toned, first two leaves partially detached but holding firm. First edition. Number 10 of the S. Dominic's Press publications. Gill's "introduction was revised and the book was enlarged.published as the fifth edition by Faber & Faber in 1938" (Gill). Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books. REFERENCES: Gill 77.

Soft cover. Etat : Fair. [ii], iv. 43, [3] pages. Damp staining and worming to the lower outer corner throughout. Bookbinder's ticket to the rear pastedown of Theo. B. Merrett, Guild of Glos Craftsmen, Stroud. In hessian covered boards with leather spine. Spine scuffed and worn. End papers browned and stained. The first edition was published in 1920.

First edition. Publisher's brown cloth over paper-covered boards, with black lettering and design to upper cover. A very good copy indeed. Wood-engravings by Beedham throughout.

Wraps. Etat : Good +. Gill, Eric and Beedham, R. John (illustrateur). First and Limited Edition. One of 240 copies, duodecimo size, 126 pp. "Woodwork" contains twenty-one wood engravings of tools by the inimitable Eric Gill (1882-1940); a highly regarded printmaker, sculptor, and typographer (as well as a complicated man), Gill provided illustrations for numerous fine press publications by the Golden Cockerel Press and the Saint Dominic's Press, as well as with Pepler under the imprint of the St. Dominic's Press. An informative look at the art of carpentry by craftsman-woodworker Arthur Romney Green (1872-1945), who, like Gill and Pepler, was influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Although the book is stated as "Volume I", no further volumes were issued. ___DESCRIPTION: Brown paper wraps, black lettering on the front wrap, fore- and bottom edges uncut, title page with black-and-white wood engraving, a total of thirty-one wood engravings in the text throughout: twenty-one wood engravings of carpentry tools by Eric Gill, ten wood engravings by R. John Beedham; Caslon O. F. type, Batchelor handmade paper, duodecimo size (7.75" by 5"), pagination: [i-iv] v-xvi [1] 2-110, one of 450 copies, this number 161. ___CITATION: Better than good, with clean wraps, a strong, square text block, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; overall minor edgewear to the wraps, some loss to the paper at the spine exposing parts of the gatherings (however, text block still solid), small loss to the bottom fore-edge corner of the title page. ___CITATIONS: Gill no. 269; Taylor and Sewell, no. A31. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xvi, 110. Original publisher's beige linen spine, over orange paper covered boards with white title label on cover reading 'Woodwork by A Romney Green'. Contains twenty-one wood engravings of tools by Eric Gill. With the Eric Gill bookplate of his younger brother Evan Gill, his bibliographer. Bookplate shows a form of swastika against a tower on a hill with flowers. An informative look at the art of carpentry by craftsman-woodworker Arthur Romney Green (1872-1945), who, like Gill and Pepler, was influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Although the book is stated as "Volume I", no further volumes were issued possibly due to the war which Green mentions in the preface. Title page with black-and-white wood engraving, a total of thirty-one wood engravings in the text throughout: twenty-one wood engravings of carpentry tools by Eric Gill, ten wood engravings by R. John Beedham; Handmade paper, 198 mms by 133 pagination: [i-iv] v-xvi [1] 2-110. Faint shelf wear, linen sppine very slightly discoloured, decent about very good indeed copy. No inscriptions, very clean text.

Early Printing. Hardcover in jacket, quite good with shelf wear, tear to jacket along spine edge, slight chipping, toning and rubbing to jacket, slight toning to cloth cover. With introduction and appendix by Eric Gill, with some engraved illustrations designed by him.