Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Gill, Eric, 1882-1940
Title:
Id quod visum placet : a practical test of the beautiful. / by Eric Gill, T.O.S.D.
Published / Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
19 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
BH221.G74 G5 1926
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
With an engraved frontispiece by the author.

"This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, for Eric Gill, Capel-y-ffin, Abergavenny, and completed on the xvii day of September, MCMXXVI. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs & F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 150 copies." --Colophon.

BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 77 of 150, signed by the author. Bound in publisher's original gray quarter buckram and purple boards.
Subject Terms:
Aesthetics. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | Gill, Eric, 1882–1940 -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Engravings -- 1926.
Contributors:
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. | Gibbings, Robert, 1889–1958, printer.