Eruic Gill on clothes and clothing
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Beskrivning
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. (2). GILL, ERIC. Clothing without Cloth. An Essay on the Nude. Waltham St Lawrence (Golden Cockerel Press) 1931.
Tall 8:o (about 225x110 mm.). (2), 1-18 pp. 4 full-page wood-engravings by Gill, illustrating his use of white line on a black ground.
Original scarlet buckram with Press device in gilt to upper board, gilt lettered spine, very slightly faded, top and fore-edges gilt, tail edges untrimmed, free endpapers lightly browned as usual. Bookplate of G. V. A. de Fries. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is no. 261. +
GILL, ERIC. Clothes. An Essay upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments worn by Men and Women. London (Jonathan Cape) 1931.
8:o (about183x120 mm.). (6), (2), 3-196, (4, last blank) pp. 10 illustrations by the author.
Original green cloth, faded on spine, gilt title, green upper edge, othrtwise uncut, lacks dustwrapper. 2 volumes.
Provenance: Lars Hall (1938-2018), prominent in Swedish public relations, designer and art collector, who studied at Konstfack in Stockholm. Hall was an Art Director and one of the founders of the advertising agency Hall & Cederquist AB in 1973. He also started Gallery Camera Obscura and later Lars Hall AB, (art direction and design). He was also an avid collector of books and Fine Art photography.
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Auktionsnummer:
622171
Datum:
2019-04-13