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An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography... -
Eric Gill by Donald Attwater 9781532684784
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £22.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Eric Gill by Donald Attwater 9781532684777
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Eric Gill: Lust for Letter & Line by Ruth Cribb
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Eric Gill (1882-1940) is one of the twentieth century's most controversial artists. This illustrated introduction focuses on the clarity of Gill's drawn and cut line. It explores his genius as a... -
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Eric Gill by Fiona MacCarthy 9780571143023 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £3.96Fiona MacCarthy's ground-breaking biography of the artist-craftsman, typographer, and lettercutter, master wood-engraver, and sculptor: Eric Gill. 'Fascinating on the work and fair to the man; a... -
Ditchling Walks - In Eric Gill's Footsteps by Lorraine Harrison 9781906022204
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The starting point for this collection of six walks in and around the village of Ditchling is the wonderful and varied collection of the Ditchling Museum of Art & Craft. After browsing the exhibits,... -
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.41Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A... -
Try the Wilderness First: Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-ffin by Jonathan Miles 9781781724019
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724019Author Jonathan MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint -
Interrupted Summer by Eric Gillies Bernardez 9780692671429
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George MacDonald: Literary Heritage & Heirs by Roderick McGillis 9780972322133
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He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western by Roderick McGillis 9781554580590
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Children's Literature and the Fin de SiEcle by Roderick McGillis 9780313321207
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Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities by Keith Houston
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Where does the ampersand get its name from? What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome? Keith Houston gives the answers in this delightfully entertaining book.From the pilcrow to... -
Eric and Dave: A Lifetime of Football and Friendship by Spencer Vignes
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.05Meet Eric Gill and Dave Hollins, once feted as two of the finest goalkeepers in Britain. Between them they have more stories to tell spanning the past ten decades than there are holes in a football... -
The Simple Life: C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds by Fiona MacCarthy 9780571320202
Booksplease Price: £21.69The Simple Life (1981) was Fiona MacCarthy's first book, written while she was the Guardian's design correspondent (and before her acclaimed lives of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones... -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
My Town: An Artist's Life in London by David Gentleman
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In Parenthesis is one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. 'The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism. Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is this island's book of... -
![The Ten Commandments of Typography: Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography: AND "Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography" by Paul Felton](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1541689/1541269/9781858943558__18225.1706134080.jpg?c=1 "The Ten Commandments of Typography: Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography: AND "Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography" by Paul Felton")
The Ten Commandments of Typography: Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography: AND "Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography" by Paul Felton
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.02A humorous and incisive analysis of the basic tenets of typography and how to turn them on their heads, this book will appeal to the conformist and the non-conformist in everyone - not just the... -
Writing: Making Your Mark by Ewan Clayton
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.40Writing surrounds us in the modern world - but how did it develop into the systems we use today, and given the technological developments of the twenty-first century, what does its future hold? ... -
The Anathemata by David Jones
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.39'The Anathemata can scarcely fail to be counted a great book... It does what Epic is meant to do. It gives a philosophic view, tenable for our times, of the secret places where nature finds... -
At the Bright Hem of God: Radnorshire Pastoral Peter J Conradi 9781913830687
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.43Radnorshire, a county rural and remote. The lives of its sparse population continue to be shaped by the wild landscape of valleys and mountains in ways that for Britain now lie in the past. Yet down... -
Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine... -
War Memorials by Roger Bowdler
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest in war memorials continues unabated. The tragic impact of world... -
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.34* A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings *'A masterpiece.' Edmund de Waal'Commanding, intelligent,... -
Secret Lewes by Terry Philpot
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Lewes appears to be a tranquil and attractive place but its alleyways and buildings conceal many stories. The town's origins can be traced back to prehistory and the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Normans... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones 9780571259809
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93In Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and... -
Epoch and Artist by David Jones
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93This collection of occasional writing 'reveals a consistency, a subtlety, a creativeness springing from tradition . . . For David Jones every sentence is wrought with artistry; and as compared with... -
The Sleeping Lord: And Other Fragments by David Jones
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.07'The Sleeping Lord is perhaps the best introductory volume to Jones's work; the contours can be seen most clearly here, and the textures, though rich, are less elaborate than in The Anathemata, since... -
Dubliners by James Joyce 9781843518716
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £12.25'My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the... -
Dai Greatcoat: A Self-Portrait of David Jones in his Letters by David Jones
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'The mind of David Jones is capable of such breathtaking leaps across the centuries, that nothing can appear incongruous in his writings and they all help to shed light on him as an artist and as a... -
Byron: Life and Legend Fiona MacCarthy 9781444799866
Booksplease Price: £23.71Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive.She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland,... -
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire by Jonathan Miles
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of... -
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick Hayes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2022 'Brilliant, passionate and political . . . The... -
The Choice by Michael Arditti
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.79A rich and powerful exploration of desire, sin and redemption, by one of our best chroniclers of faith in the 21st century."I enjoyed it enormously. The story is so interesting, the theme so...