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Four Gospels,1/500,ill.Gill,JFMowery b'g,GCP

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number 176 of 500 copies on Batchelor handmade paper, printed in Golden Cockerel type, wood-engraved illustrations and initials by Eric Gill, some full-page, woodcut bookplate in red and black of Theo van der Marck, bound in black goatskin-backed alum-tawed goatskin, by J.Franklin Mowery, boards blind-stamped with seven illustrated examples of the word "And" from the book and interspersed with thick horizontal rules, edges of boards with double rule in blind, spine with seven raised bands and ruled and titled in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, black suede doublures, signed "JFM 2001" at foot of rear turn-in, alum-tawed goatskin-backed black cloth drop-back box, upper and lower covers blind-stamped with "And" as the book, folio, 330 x 230mm., Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931.

***A magnificent binding of the magnum opus of the Golden Cockerel Press and the culmination of the collaboration between Robert Gibbings and Eric Gill. Exhibited: The Fine Bindings of J.Franklin Mowery, Washington, D.C., 2007, pp.28-29.

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