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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. 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.