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Gill, Eric [illustrator].
The Song of Songs:
Publisher: Folio Society, London;
Date of Publication: 2017
Stock Code: 12301
Limited facsimile edition of 750 copies of which this is No. 708. Small quarto, pp., [5-8], 9-42, [4]; with 4 pp. pamphlet. Illustrated with 20 illustrations of which 18 are within the text, one to colophon and one tail-piece; as well as some initial letters in red, taken from Eric Gill’s wood engravings. Bound in publisher’s oatmeal cloth with gilt titles to spine, with taupe dust jacket blocked with “Holy Ghost as dove design” by Gill. Housed in a deep green paper covered clamshell case, with Gill designed pictorial paper onlay and gilt titles to upper board, gilt titles to spine. An impeccably clean, crisp Fine copy in like dust-jacket and case. Luxurious facsimile of the First edition of Eric Gill’s Song of Songs, originally published in 1925 by the Golden Cockerel Press. The Song of Songs was Eric Gill’s first text for Golden Cockerel and his first Biblical text, condemned as immoral by some members of the Catholic church owing to its erotic illustrations. This Folio facsimile is printed by Memminger on corolla book laid ivory paper, and bound in cloth by Lachenmair and is the second title in the Folio Society’s Fine Press Classics series. With an accompanying specially commissioned essay on the work by Sebastian Carter, editor of Parenthesis, the Journal of the Fine Press Book Association. £200.00