A Typographical Masterpiece. An Account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's Collaboration with Robert Gibbings in Producing the Golden Cockerel Edition of "The Four Gospels" in 1931.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1990.
Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. One of 450 copies printed by the Meriden-Stinehour Press. Folio, 120 pp, with 41 forty-one numbered reproductions of work by Gill. A fine copy in original linen boards, with prospectus (slightly rumpled) laid in. In original glassine dust jacket, which has minor wear to the hear of the spine. Harlan (Two Hundredth Book, 51-52), describes the the Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ as "one of the acknowledged masterpieces of the twentieth centur" and comments that "locating and utilizing a great many documents, including, for example, the original paste-ups for the entire text, the patterns and punches, sketches and other working papers, John Dreyfus has shed considerable new light on how this superb work was conceived, planned and executed."
Item #23820
Price: $175.00