GILL ERIC God Sending

Sale 2475 - Lot 120

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

GILL, ERIC. God Sending. Alternate engraved proof of the frontispiece to Procreant Hymn, by E. Powys Mathers, published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926. Copper engraving on laid paper. 112x86 mm; 4 1/2x3 1/2 inches, image, on 5 3/4x4 1/2-inch sheet, unevenly cut margins. Initialled by Gill and numbered 12/25 in pencil, lower margin. Physick 364. [Waltham St. Lawrence, 1926]

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Procreant Hymn by E Powys Mathers was originally published in 1926 in an edition of 175 by The Golden Cockerel Press with five copper engravings: God Sending, Earth Waiting, Earth Inviting, Dalliance and Earth Receiving. In addition, 25 copies were provided with a further suite of 4 alternative designs of a more erotic nature titled: God Sending, Earth Inviting, Earth Wrestling, and Earth Receiving (Physick, 364-67).