Sacred and Secular: Essays by Eric Gill
by Eric Gill
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Bellevue, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
8vo, red buckram cloth with silver titles, red topstain 198pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (7s 6d) shows minimal rubbing to panels, mild toning to pages. Firmly bound with clean text. A collection of essays by the Catholic artist, writer and typographer, examining the sacred and secular in modern art and industry, work and culture, ownership and industrialism, expounding the distributist philosophy of Gill, Fr Vincent McNabb and the Catholic coterie of Ditchling and St. Dominic's Guild. With original drawings and typography by the author. A handsome copy in mylar.
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- Bookseller
- Heaven-Haven Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B-62
- Title
- Sacred and Secular: Essays by Eric Gill
- Author
- Eric Gill
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Catholica - Philosophy; Essays & Literary Criticism; Catholica - Art;
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