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Eric Gill (1882–1940)

Author of An Essay on Typography

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Includes the names: Eric Gill, Arthur Eric Rowton Gill

Image credit: Courtesy of Joe Cribb, the Eric Gill Society. http://www.ericgill.org.uk/

Works by Eric Gill

An Essay on Typography (1931) 382 copies, 4 reviews
The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I. (0080) 89 copies, 1 review
Autobiography (1969) 69 copies
The engraved work of Eric Gill (1963) 37 copies, 1 review
All the Love Poems of Shakespeare (1993) — Illustrator — 37 copies
The letter forms and type designs of Eric Gill (1976) 35 copies
Holy Tradition of Working: Passages from the Writings of Eric Gill (1983) 27 copies
Eric Gill, the inscriptions : a descriptive catalogue (1994) 21 copies
Beauty Looks After Herself (2012) 20 copies, 1 review
Letters of Eric Gill (2007) 15 copies
It All Goes Together: Selected Essays by Eric Gill (1944) 13 copies
Twenty-five Nudes (1988) 12 copies
Engraved Bookplates of Eric Gill, 1908-40 (1986) 10 copies
Last essays (1942) 9 copies
Eric Gill: His Life and Art (1991) 9 copies
Eric Gill's Masterpieces of Wood Engraving (2013) 9 copies
Art (1949) 7 copies
Art-nonsense and other essays, (1929) 7 copies
Eric Gill: A Bibliography (1991) 7 copies
Art and a changing civilisation (1934) 5 copies
Notes on Postage Stamps (Kat Ran Essays in Philatelics) (2011) 5 copies, 1 review
Clothes: an essay upon the nature and significance of the natural and artificial integuments worn by men and women (1931) 5 copies
First nudes (1954) 5 copies
Essays : Last essays and In a strange land 5 copies
In a strange land : essays 4 copies
On the Birmingham School of Art, 1940 4 copies
Book of Alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon (1987) 4 copies
Dress : being an essay in masculine vanity and an exposure of the unchristian apparel favoured by females (1986) 3 copies
Drawings from Life 3 copies, 1 review
Christianity and the Machine Age (1940) 3 copies
Un ensayo sobre tipografía (2013) 3 copies
Art & Prudence An Essay (1928) 3 copies
Engraving by Eric Gill : a selection of engravings on wood and metal representative of his work to the end of the year… 2 copies
Strict delight: The life and work of Eric Gill, 1882-1940 : [an exhibition held at] Whitworth Art Gallery, University… (1980) 2 copies
Sacred & secular &c (1940) 2 copies
Eric Gill Stone Carver, Wood Engraver, Typographer, Writer, 3 Essays to Accompany an Exhibition of His Life and Work (1979) 2 copies
The necessity of belief : an enquiry into the nature of human certainty, the causes of scepticism and the grounds of… 2 copies
The story of how Amnon ravished his sister Thamar for which Absalom killed him : as it is written in the second book of… 2 copies
From the Palestine Diary of Eric Gill. Published privately in an unknown number of copies. 2 copies
Eric Gill 1882-1940 : drawings and carvings : a centenary exhibition (1982) 2 copies
Songs without clothes : being a dissertation on the Song of Solomon and such-like songs 2 copies
Sculpture: an essay ... Reprinted from The Highway, etc (1918) 2 copies
In petra: being a sequel to Nisi Dominus, together with a preface and notes / by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler 2 copies
Canticum canticorum Salomonis quod Hebraice dicitur Sir hasirim 2 copies
Clay and Lacquer 1 copy
Servile Labour and Contemplation (1989) 1 copy
The Engravings of Eric Gill. Facsimile reproductions of all the known engraved work of Eric Gill 1 copy
Work and Leisure 1 copy
Joanna: Designed by Eric Gill and originally cut for Hague & Gill by H.W. Caslon & Co. Ltd., recut in 1937 1 copy
Essays by Eric Gill Introduction by Mary Gill 1 copy
The Phaedo of Plato. (1930) 1 copy
From the Jerusalem diary of Eric Gill 1 copy
The Rich and the Poor - A Biblical Anthology compiled from the Douay version 1 copy
Disruption, Devotion + Distributism 1 copy
Sulla tipografia (2005) 1 copy, 1 review
Unholy Trinity 1 copy
Art & love 1 copy
Hague and Gill on printing (1993) 1 copy
Sacred and Secular in Art and Industry: A Lecture Given Before the Royal Institu 1 copy
The Way of the Cross : being devotions on the progress of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the Judgement Hall to Calvary as… 1 copy
DAVID KINDERSLEY 1915-1995 MR ERIC GILL, LETTERS TO AN APPRENTICE. (1995) 1 copy
Social justice & the stations of the cross (1939) 1 copy
Eric Gill (1882-1940), the thorn in the flesh : exhibition catalogue of religious and erotic engravings (1998) 1 copy
THE PASSION OF OUR LORD ACCORDING TO THE FOUR EVANGELISTS WITH FIVE ENGRAVINGS BY ERIC GILL (1934) 1 copy
Essays by Eric Gill 1 copy
Sculpture and the living model 1 copy
Sacred and Secular, Essays by Eric Gill 1 copy
Work and culture: A lecture given before the Royal Society of Arts, London, April 1938 1 copy
Unemployment 1 copy
Wood-engravings : being a selection of Eric Gill's engravings on wood : the first, Virgin and Child, is a wood cut,… 1 copy
25 Nudes 1 copy, 1 review
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Associated Works

Twelfth Night (1601) — some editions — 11,094 copies, 111 reviews
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602) — Decoration, some editions — 2,099 copies, 38 reviews
Troilus and Cressida (1374) — Illustrator, some editions — 1,928 copies, 6 reviews
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) — Designer, some editions — 1,775 copies, 24 reviews
Song of Songs {broadside} (1935) — Illustrator, some editions — 402 copies, 8 reviews
Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles (1951) — Contributor — 99 copies
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Volume 7, Part 1: The Holy Sonnets (2005) — Illustrator, some editions — 15 copies, 1 review
Wood engraving (1921) — Illustrator; Appendix; Introduction — 15 copies
Every man an artist : readings in the traditional philosophy of art (2005) — Contributor, some editions — 10 copies
American Aphrodite (Volume Three, Number Ten) (1953) — Illustrator — 2 copies
The book-collectors' quarterly, no. X, April-June 1933 (1933) — Contributor — 1 copy
Catalogue 97, Rare & interesting books from G. F. Sims (1977) — Cover artist — 1 copy
A catalogue of the Llewelyn Powys manuscripts (1956) — Cover artist — 1 copy
Typography : a quarterly, no. 5, Spring 1938 (1938) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Drawings from Life by Eric Gill
First edition. Gill no.48. 36 plates of nudes drawn by Gill. One of the last books that Gill worked on as he died in 1940.
 
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petervanbeveren | Jul 1, 2024 |
25 Nudes by Eric Gill
Short introduction by Eric Gill followed by 25 white line nudes on a black background.
 
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petervanbeveren | Jul 1, 2024 |
An Modern Classics an Essay on Typography (Penguin… by Eric Gill
Uma boa forma de acompanhar a visão de um grande Tipógrafo do início do século XX. 100 anos desde então e observar que muito do que ele criticava à época, contra o excessivo industrialismo, observa-se sob postura similar em relação à excessiva digitalização. Mais do que abolir o status quo, refletir porque chegamos a esta percepção de arte, e se vale a pena continuar por esse caminho. Isso e muitas dicas valiosas na composição de livros.
 
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danielzonn | 3 other reviews | Mar 25, 2022 |
Sulla tipografia by Eric Gill
Benché Gill sia oggi ricordato soprattutto come un artista della tipografia, non meno interessante fu il suo contributo teorico rispetto alla composizione tipografica. Questo saggio - il primo scritto da Gill - venne pubblicato in cinquecento esemplari nel giugno 1931 e nelle sue pagine, lucide e austere, si rispecchiano gli elementi di crisi propri di quel momento storico: in particolare, il conflitto tra industrializzazione e antiche procedure di stampa manuale, che oggi conosce inediti e allora impensabili sviluppi grazie all'elettronica. Fondatore della September Press, disegnatore di caratteri tra i quali, celebri, il Gill Sans (1929), il Perpetua (1929) e il Joanna (1930), l'inglese Eric Gill (1882-1940) è tra i massimi artisti dell'arte tipografica.… (more)
 
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