Art & Love, by Eric Gill. First edition, foolscap 8vo, pp.xvi, 32, [Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press for] Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol, 1927.
Number 91 of 225 (260) copies handset in Caslon, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper and signed by the author/illustrator. 6 full-page copper plate engravings. Black buckram with gilt spine titling, edges uncut, a trifle worn at extremities. A very good copy indeed.
Gibbings declined to publish 'Art & Love' under the Golden Cockerel Press imprint, apparently because of its overtly Catholic character (Gill originally had scruples about working for Gibbings because he was not a Catholic). It was taken up by Douglas Cleverdon, then a young bookseller in Bristol, who thus found himself becoming a publisher as well. This was a fruitful friendship for Gill. Gill had painted Cleverdon's shop fascia in a sans-serif letter, originally developed for signs at Capel-y-ffin, which impressed Stanley Morison and became the prototype for 'Gill Sans'.
