Eric Gill: The Engravings
- Artist: Eric Gill
- Published: 1990
- Publisher: The Herbert Press Limited, London
- Edition: First
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 32cm
- Pages: 480
- Illustrations: Illustrated throughout in black and white
£125.00
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Apart from being a testament og Gill's immense talent as an engraver, this book is a major source of reference, the result of wide research and meticulous scholarship. The illustrations for his books are kept together, and important variant states of the prints are included.
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Artists Biography
(b Brighton, 22 Feb 1882; d Harefield, Middx [now in London], 17 Nov 1940). English sculptor, letter-cutter, typographic designer, calligrapher, engraver, writer and teacher. He received a traditional training at Chichester Technical and Art School (1897–1900), where he first developed an interest in lettering. He also became fascinated by the Anglo-Saxon and Norman stone-carvings in Chichester Cathedral. In 1900 Gill moved to London to become a pupil of William Douglas Caröe (1857–1938), architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. He took classes in practical masonry at Westminster Institute and in writing and illuminating at the Central School of Art and Design, where he was deeply influenced by the calligrapher Edward Johnston. Johnston’s meticulous training was to be a perfect preparation for Gill’s first commissions for three-dimensional inscriptions in stone, the foundation stone for Caröe’s St Barnabas and St James the Greater in Walthamstow, London, and the lettering for the lychgate at Charles Harrison Townsend’s St Mary’s, Great Warley, Essex. Further commissions followed after Gill left Caröe in 1903 to work with E. S. Prior of the Art Workers’ Guild. He also undertook his first typographical work, for example for Heal’s advertisements.
