Sacred & Secular by Eric Gill - 1940

J. M. Dent for Hague & Gill, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1940. First Published. 197 pages. Grey dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Annotations and underlining to pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to spine and edges. Bleaching to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Light rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

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.

London: J.M. Dent, 1940. 1st Ed. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Denis Tegetmeier. Small Octavo. Red cloth silver lettered on spine in red and grey dust jacket. 8 illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier. Slight wear to extremities of dust jacket o/w a fine copy.

J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd for Hague & Gill Ltd, London, 1940. Hardback with protected dust-wrapper. 19.5 x 13cm. 197pp, [2]. illustrations by Dennis Tegetmeier. A fdew spots to exterior fore-edge, otherwise very clean. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.