DONNE, John & Eric GILL (illustrator). The Holy Sonnets [introduction by Hugh l'A. Fausset], London: J. M. Dent for Hague & Gill, 1938, 8°, limited to 550 copies on Barcham Green hand-made paper signed by the artist, 4 wood-engraved plates by Gill, original black cloth with three leaf clover and lettering stamped in gilt, gold dust-jacket (upper edge of upper cover torn, lightly rubbed). [Evan Gill 298]

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DONNE, John & Eric GILL (illustrator). The Holy Sonnets [introduction by Hugh l'A. Fausset], London: J. M. Dent for Hague & Gill, 1938, 8°, limited to 550 copies on Barcham Green hand-made paper signed by the artist, 4 wood-engraved plates by Gill, original black cloth with three leaf clover and lettering stamped in gilt, gold dust-jacket (upper edge of upper cover torn, lightly rubbed). [Evan Gill 298]

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