Private Press
Gill, Eric The Four Gospels. Folio Society, 2018. Folio, org. red cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, upper board with central gilt angel after Gill, t.e.g., grey silk marker, in slipcase; floriated and inhabited initials and headers by Gill.
Coverdale, Miles The Book of Psalms. The Haymarket Press, 1930. Folio, full parchment; 8 facsimile reproductions of folios from Queen Mary's Psalter, floriated initials (first ten initials later coloured). Limited ed. of 875 copies, this one unnumbered.
The Private Press movement of the early 20th-century found frequent inspiration in the Bible, few more so than Gill, whose sensuous and disturbing figures show a very personal inspiration. The Haymarket Psalter instead opts for a faux-medievalism, with decorative initials and rubrication, but still maintains the cleanliness of line which typifies the style of such presses. [2]