Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
GILL, ERIC. Group of 3 wood engravings [from] The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the authorized version of King James I. Each 12 3/4 x 9 inches, mount apertures. Printed in 18-point Golden Cockerel Face type. Comprises two divisional title pages: The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, and The Gospel According to Saint Luke, and in-text illustration from p. 66 of the Golden Cockerel book (the titles with some red ink spots to blank borders, and each with a few tiny pinholes along top margins). The title sheets are both dated 1931 and initialed by Gill, while the third sheet bears an unsigned inscription by the artist: "viz. [Robert] Gibbing's original concept - and so all congratulations to the (almost) infallible Cooper!!"; accomplished in pencil. Additionally St. Luke is numbered "6th/10" and St. Matthew "5/XI." Together in wooden frame and exhibition mount. Unexamined out of frame. [Np, but Waltham St. Lawrence], 1931