GILL, Eric. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. WALEY, Arthur. ~ Glue and Lacquer. Four Cautionary Tales translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton and Lee Yi-Hsieh.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1941
No. 240 of 350 copies. 5 copper engravings engraved by Denis Tegetmeier after drawings by Eric Gill. Printed on mould-made paper. 4to., bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in original blue morocco backed gold cloth with Chinese lettering in gilt on upper cover, spine with title in gilt. Spine mildly faded with a little rubbing to extremities, front endpapers a little spotted.
Eric Gill had undertaken to illustrate this book with copper engravings and during the last week of his life, while in hospital, he completed the drawings which after his death were engraved by his son-in-law Denis Tegetmeier.
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