Ernest Gimson : his life & work
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Type of record: Book
Title: Ernest Gimson : his life & work
Classmark: Large Architecture B-0.1 GIM
Creator(s): Lethaby, W R (1857-1931); Powell, Alfred H; Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur (1876-1938)
Additional creator(s): Gimson, Ernest (1864-1919) (Creator); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Shakespeare Head Press (Printer)
Related people: Gimson, Ernest, 1864-1919
Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited; Basil Blackwell; At the Shakespeare Head Press
Publication city: London : Oxford
Date(s): 1924
Language: English
Size and medium: vii, 47, v pages, 60 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/183890
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008130129705181
Description
"The drawings in the text... are all by F.L. Griggs ... except that of the cottage at Pinbury Park, which is by Alfred H. Powell"--Page 33.
Limited edition of 550 copies.
Leeds University Library copy at A371: No. 402 of an edition of 550 copies.
Ernest Gimson's London days / by W.R. Lethaby -- Ernest Gimson's Gloucestershire days / by Alfred H. Powell -- Ernest Gimson and his work / by F.L. Griggs -- The drawings in the text -- The plates in collotype.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A371: Contains loose clippings: Genesis of the Cotswold Movement by Tudor Edwards (Country Life, 9 Dec. 1976); Continuing a tradition by Bevis Hillier (Times, 9 Sept. 1978); clipping from auction catalogue of Henry Sotheran Ltd. (Nov. 2008); clipping from sale catalogue of Sims Reed Antiquarian Booksellers for this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A371: Original cloth boards and dustjacket, errata slip tipped in, pages untrimmed, some unopened.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A371: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: AS/44.
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