ERIC GILL, A.R.A. | ENGRAVED WOOD BLOCK FOR THE CANTERBURY TALES ('W')

Sophie Schneideman Rare Books & Prints, London

Felix Dennis, London

Sale, Sotheby's London, 9th December 2014, lot 184, where acquired by the present owner

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1929, vol. II, illustrated p.60 (the printed version);

Eric Gill, Engravings 1928-1933, Faber & Faber, London, 1934, illustrated pl.36 (the printed version);

J.F. Physick, The Engraved Work of Eric Gill, HMSO, London, 1963, p.158;

Christopher Skelton, Eric Gill: The Engravings, The Herbert Press, London, 1983, illustrated p.282, pl. no.P588 (the printed version).

The block was used as the half-page illustration introducing 'The Prioress's Tale' in the 1929, Golden Cockrel edition of the Canterbury Tales (P588) and published on page 60 of the second volume. The block has been filled with gesso.