THE HOLY SONNETS OF JOHN DONNE

First edition. Limited edition. Signed by the artist. Bound by Stephen Conway in full black morocco with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine, mirroring that of the publisher's cloth. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original cloth laid in at the rear. With four full page wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed from 14-point Bunyan type on Barcham Green hand-made paper. A fine copy. Housed in a bespoke gold cloth solander case with clover illustration to the upper cover and titles stamped in black to the spine. A beautifully presented and bound example.

Issued in a limited edition of 550 copies, of which 500 copies were for sale, signed by Eric Gill in black ink on the colophon. "The first book to be published in England printed from Gill's Bunyan type" (Gill 298).