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Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Hardcover. Orig. white buckram spine lettered in gilt. Very good. 43 pages. 26 1/2 x 20 cm. Twenty wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed in black and red in Caslon O.F. Limited edition, copy 441 of 750 on Batchelor hand-made paper. CHANTICLEER 31. Humbert Wolfe in his Introduction to "Chanticleer." notes, "The type and paper of `The Song of Songs' are both beyond praise. GILL 275. Mostly unopened, spine darkened, covers a bit dusty, interior contents immaculate.

Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 20 wood engravings by Eric Gill. One of 750 copies. Printed in black and red in Caslon Old Face type. Pp. 44. 4to., original white buckram. A very good copy, free endpapers slightly browned as usual.||Chanticleer announces that at this point ‘Eric Gill has come to work only for the Golden Cockerel Press’ - the beginning of a great collaboration. The wood engravings here are very beautiful and strong. Gill once wrote that he refuted the notion that because it is about love-making and the charms of women, the Song of Songs is irreligious. The problem he notes is that “the Song of Solomon is a love song, and one of a very outspoken kind, and in modern England such things are not considered polite”. His images are certainly gently erotic but embued with sensual love and tenderness and intended as a celebration of Divine Love.The introduction to the book by Gibbings asserts it’s morality, stating that “The Song of Songs must...be regarded as… Read More

Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press,, 1925. Gill's remarkable fusion of religious text with erotic illustration First Golden Cockerel edition, number 246 of 750 copies. Of all the books Gill illustrated, it was perhaps The Song of Songs which gave him the freest reign to explore the relationship of the erotic and the religious, the fusion of which characterised his illustrations throughout his career. It stands among his most significant works. "The most important Golden Cockerel editions for which Eric Gill provided the engravings were The Song of Songs (1925), Troilus and Criseyde (1927), The Canterbury Tales (1928), and The Four Gospels of 1931 - Gill's and Gibbings's tour de force. No other wood-engraver of the period comes near to Gill's originality and verve. But, once again, the explicit eroticism of The Song of Songs and of Gill's later illustrations for E. Powys Mather's Procreant Hymn of 1926 shocked many of his former supporters and drew puzzled reproaches from the Dominicans"… Read More

Waltham St. Lawrence:: The Golden Cockerel Press,, 1925.. First edition; No. 18 of 30 copies hand-colored by Eric Gill; signed by Eric Gill and Robert Gibbings.. publisher's white cloth, in publisher's clear mylar wrapper and a custom slipcase.. A beautiful copy. The mylar is a little rippled with a few tiny spots to the rear panel.. 4to,. See Chanticleer #31.

Waltham St. Lawrence: Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. No. 14 of only 30 special copies, with hand coloured engravings and signed by Eric Gill and Robert Gibbings, the artist and printer. 20 hand coloured wood engravings by Gill. Printed in Caslon in black and red. 26.2 x 19.8 cms, bound in full white buckram with a gilt bird by Gill on the upper cover, gilt lettering on spine.||A really fine copy of the rare special of the Song of Songs. It has a tiny ownership inscription of Thomas Balston and a tipped in letter to him from Robert Gibbings himself on Golden Cockerel headed paper dated 9-10-35. In it he notes Balston's new standing order and give details the books he should get immediately as well as letting him know about the impending Gill Song of Songs which Gibbings describes as "damn fine".He offers him one of the 30 specials which Balston obviously bought very quickly.Thomas Balston as the director of the publisher Duckworth and Co. and a scholar of book… Read More