A Typographical MasterpieceJohn Dreyfus
San Francisco, CA. The Book Club of California, 1990. Unnumbered edition of 450 copies. 33.5 x 24 x 2 cm An account of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 'The Four Gospels' in 1931. Illustrated with reproductions of Gibbings woodcuts. Full leather binding with laced-in boards. Bound in purple Pentland goat. Silk endbands and edge-to-edge doublures of purple Chieftain. I used a Gill font and Gibbings woodcut as references to create a title/design in goat onlays and hand painted calf inlays. Bound 2021 |