Id Quod Visum Placet.
by Gill, Eric
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
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Zurich, Switzerland
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About This Item
Privately printed for Gill by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. No. 105 of an edition of 150 copies, hand-numbered and signed 'Eric Gill TSI' on the colophon. Illustrated with two full-page copper plate engravings by Gill: 'David' and 'Flying Buttresses'. 'Id Quod Visum Placet' was the first of several books by Gill which were printed at Waltham for publication by Douglas Cleverdon or Gill himself.
Description: Quarter tan cloth with blue paper boards, white paper label with black lettering on the front board. Octavo: 20 × 12 cm; pp. [6 (frontispiece, title, prologue)], 19, [1] (colophon)]. Printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. Edges untrimmed.
Provenance: Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper 'J. & R. from BW, January 22, 1927' and in pencil by Anonymous 'Presented by Beatrice Warde' (this statement cannot be verified).
Ref.: Cave/Manson 44A; Skelton P372, P373
Condition: Some rubbing to extremities and slight wear to spine, boards slightly discolored (as usual). Pages tightly bound throughout and bright and clean.
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- Bookseller
- Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000307
- Title
- Id Quod Visum Placet.
- Author
- Gill, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Golden Cockerel Press
- Place of Publication
- Waltham St Lawrence
- Date Published
- 1926
- Weight
- 0.26 lbs
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- Private Press; Arts, Art History; Theology;
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- Cloth
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