The Constant Mistress.

(Golden Cockerel Press.) CLAY (Enid) & Eric Gill (Illustrator)

The Constant Mistress.

With Engravings by Eric Gill.

Description: 41/50 COPIES (from an edition of 300 copies) printed on Batchelor's handmade paper and signed by the author and artist, 6 wood-engravings by Eric Gill, a set of proof pulls on Japanese paper of the engravings in a pocket to rear pastedown, the 'Cockerel' press-mark at the foot of colophon-page printed in gold, pp. 40, [i], crown 8vo, original tan morocco, backstrip gilt lettered and very gently faded, a little rubbed at extremities, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, good

Publication Details: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934

Notes: The special issue, with the extra suite of Gill's superb engravings; seen in both tan (as here) and black morocco.

Bibliography: (Chanticleer 101: Gill, Corey & Mackenzie 293)

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