Eric Gill collection 1900-1969.

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Eric Gill collection 1900-1969.

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Books and collections of art works by Eric Gill; books and pamphlets with chapters and/or illustrations designed by Gill; and woodcuts, engravings, bookplates, posters, several architectural drawings, broadsheets and photographs of sculpture by Gill. Includes works about Gill, woodblocks of the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, woodcuts by Philip Hagreen, sketches, and private press books including the Golden Cockerel Press, St. Dominic's Press and Pepler Press. Includes broadsides, posters announcing exhibits by Eric Gill printed by H.D.C. Pepler, rhyme sheets including "The song of the Dressmaker," and "The Hen," The Song of Songs prospectus, and the famous Golden Cockrel edition of The Four Gospels with 65 wood engravings by Eric Gill (Nov. 1931); type specimens, early printers proofs of Gill's alphabets (from quarto leaves) 1969, St. Dominic's Press Calendars 1924, and The Dream of the Holy Rood (St. Dominics Press, 1931). Also preliminary Gill drawings of Barron Anatole von Huegal dated Sept. 1936 and original drawings of the Crucifixion (April 19, 1926) inscribed by the artist "Rossal School proposed altar piece" and two original drawings inscribed by the artist Gorleston Church ..." designed for painting on east wall of tower (1969.).

7 drawers of a map case.

University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library

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University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library

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Gill, Eric, 1882-1940

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English sculptor and engraver. Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, best known as Eric Gill, was born in Brighton, Sussex on February 22, 1882 to minister Arthur Tidman Gill and light-opera singer (Cicely) Rose King. They moved to Chichester in 1897, where Gill studied at the Chichester Technical and Art School (1897-1900). In 1900, Gill moved to London to study architecture under William Douglas Caröe, taking classes in practical masonry at Westminster Institute and in lettering and illumination at the Ce...

Pepler, H. D. C. (Hilary Douglas Clarke), 1878-1951

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Hague & Gill

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Golden cockerel press

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Hagreen, Philip, 1890-

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St. Dominic's Press

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St. Dominic's Press was founded in 1916 by H.D.C. Pepler. The purpose of the press was "[not] to reach the 'Doves' standard...[but] to print anything which might be required of me, from a billhead to a book, and to use handmade paper." From the guide to the St. Dominic's Press Collection, 1920-1933, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Huegal, Anatole von, Baron.

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Donne, John, 1572-1631

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Proposed for publication as part of the Percy Society series. From the description of The Songs and sonnets of Dr. John Donne : with critical notes by the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge / edited by Barron Field, Esq. : manuscript, [ca. 1840] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612868820 Herbert Grierson attached great importance to the manuscript and presumed the writer to be an acquaintance of Donne. From the description of Poems and paradoxes : manuscript, ...