GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GILL, Eric. ~ The Lord's Song. A Sermon by Eric Gill.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1934
One of 500 copies, this copy unnumbered. Wood engraving and wood engraved title page vignette and decorated initial by Eric Gill. Set in Gill’s Perpetua Roman and Felicity Italic types on Arnold paper. Tall thin 8vo., in what appears to be a near contemporary binding of tan cloth with lettering in gilt on upper cover - the main edition was in cream cloth with a design by Gill in gilt.
Gill’s sermon on the text in the 136th Psalm: “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” exploring the nature of freedom and how man must “reaffirm the freedom of his will and his consquent responsibility for all his deeds and works”.
Chanticleer, Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 92
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