Lot Essay
As a typographer Robert Harling was strongly influenced by Eric Gill and wrote widely on the subject. He published The Letterforms and Type Designs of Eric Gill in 1976.
MID-19TH CENTURY
Details
THREE SETS OF VICTORIAN BONE CHILD'S ALPHABET LETTERS
MID-19TH CENTURY
In a glazed maple frame
9½ x 10½ in. (24 x 27 cm.) overall
Together with a signed print by Eric Gill entitled 'The Perpetua Type cut by the designs made by Eric Gill' signed in ink (2)
MID-19TH CENTURY
In a glazed maple frame
9½ x 10½ in. (24 x 27 cm.) overall
Together with a signed print by Eric Gill entitled 'The Perpetua Type cut by the designs made by Eric Gill' signed in ink (2)
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