Drawings from Life.
by GILL, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hague & Gill, London., 1940. First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], xvi, 36 plates. Introduction by the artist in which he proselytises on the female nude as if he were the first ever to have drawn one. Full blue cloth with silver lettering and device. According to the dustwrapper blurb, "those who know Gill's work will know what to expect".A bit of light foxing here and there. Very good indeed in very good, slightly rubbed, price-clipped dustwrapper slightly darkened at the spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GILLERIC006631
- Title
- Drawings from Life.
- Author
- GILL, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hague & Gill, London.
- Date Published
- 1940
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Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
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