Male : Sculptor, Engraver, Typographer, Writer and book illustrator. Married Ethel "Mary" Moore in 1904. They formed the nucleus of an artistic community at Ditchling in Sussex. Became a Catholic 1913, joining the Third Order of St Dominic. Gill kept a continuous diary from the age of 15 in which he recorded what he made, earned and spent, as well as all his sexual conquests. The diaries ran to 40 volumes

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Brighton, Sussex

Date of Birth : 1882 Date of Death : 1940 Age : 58

Education : Arnold House, Brighton, Chichester Theological College (1 year) & Chichester Art Sch

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY GILL
1917-1920
Sculpture (1917 St Dominic's Press)
Birth Control (1918 St Dominic's Press)

1921-1930
Songs Without Clothes (1921 St Dominic's Press, Ditchling) - 240
Wood Engravings (1924 St Dominic's Press) - 150
Offered in 1995 for £1150
Sculpture : An Essay on Stone Cutting, with a Preface about God (1924 St Dominic's Press)
Id Quod (1926 Golden Cockerel Press)
Christianity and Art (1928 Shakespeare Head Press for Francis Walterson, Capel-y-Ffin, Abergavenney)
- Frontis David Jones. 200 signed by Gill & Jones
Art and Love (1928 Golden Cockerel Press)
Art and Prudence : An Essay (1928 Golden Cockerel Press) - 500
The Future of Sculpture (1928 privately printed) - 55
Engravings of Eric Gill : A Selection (1929 Douglas Cleverdon / Fanfare Press) - 500
Art Nonsense and Other Essays (1929 Cassell / F Walterson) - 100 signed

1931-1935
Clothing without Cloth : An Essay on the Nude (1931 Golden Cockerel Press) - 500
Offered in 1995 for £250
An Essay on Typography (1931 Sheed & Ward) - 500 signed by Gill & Rene Hague
Signed Edition offered in 1999 for £300
Clothes : An Essay Upon the Nature & Significance of the Natural and Artificial
Integuments Worn by Men & Women (1931 Cape) - 160 signed
Unemployment (1933 Faber)
The Lord's Song : A Sermon (1934 Golden Cockerel Press) - 500
Engravings 1928-1933 (1934 Faber)
Art and a Changing Civilisation (1934 John Lane)
Work and Leisure (1935 Faber)

1936-1945
The Necessity of Belief (1936 London)
Trousers and the Most Precious Ornament (1937 Faber)
Twenty Five Nudes (1938 Dent, for Hague & Gill)
Unholy Trinity (1938 Dent, for Hague & Gill) - pictures by Denis Tegetmeier
Drawings from Life (1940 Hague & Gill)
Christianity and the Machine Age (1940 London)
Sacred and Secular (1940 Dent for Hague & Gill)
Autobiography (1940 Cape)
Last Essays (1942 Cape)
In A Strange Land : Essays (1944 Cape)
It All Goes Together : Selected Essays (1944 Devin-Adair, NY)

After 1946
The Letters of Eric Gill (1947 Cape) - edited by Walter Shewring
From the Jerusalem Diary of Eric Gill (1953 privately printed)
First Nudes (1954 Citadel Press, NY)
The Engravings of Eric Gill (1983 Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough) - 85 copies. 2 vols & portfolio

BOOKS SPECIALLY ILLUSTRATED BY GILL
1915-1920
The Taking of Toll (trans by Ananda Coomaraswamy) (1915 Olde Bourne Press)
The Devil's Devices by Douglas Pepler (1915 Hampshire House Workshop, Hammersmith)
God and the Dragon by H D C P (1917 St Dominic Press)
The Way of the Cross by D P (1917 St Dominic Press)
Woodwork by A Romney Green (1918 St Dominic Press)
Emblems Engraved on Wood (1919 Hampshire House Press)
Three Poems by A Cooaraswamy (1920 St Dominic Press)

1921-1930
Autumn Midnight by Frances Cornford (1923 The Poetry Workshop)
Sonnets and Verses by Enid Clay (1925 Golden Cockerel Press) - 450 Numbered copies
Song of Songs by Solomon, King of Israel (1925 Golden Cockerel Press) - 750 signed copies
Passio Domini by St Matthew (1926 Golden Cockerel Press) - 250 numbered copies
Procreant Hymn by E Powys Mathers (1926 Golden Cockerel Press) - 200 numbered copies
Gloria in Profundis by G K Chesterton (1927 Faber & Gwyer)
Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer (1927 Golden Cockerel Press) - 219 numbered copies
The Song of the Soul by St John of the Cross (1927 Francis Walterson, Abergavenny)
- 150 signed copies
Canterbury Tales (1926-31)
Leda by Aldous Huxley (1929 Doubleday, US) - 361 signed/numbered copies
Concerning Dragons by H D Peplar (1929 St Dominic's Press, Ditchling, Sussex)
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (1929 The Fleuron) - 30 signed/numbered copies
The Story of Amnon (1930 Hague & Gill)

1931-1935
Canticum Canticorum by Solomon, King of Israel (1931 Cranach Press)
The Four Gospels (1931 Golden Cockerel Press) - 488 copies
Hamlet (1933 Ltd Editions Club) - 1500 signed/numbered
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (1933 Cassell)
The Lost Child by Mulk Raj Anand (1934 Hague & Gill) - 200 copies signed
The New Temple Shakespeare (1934-1936 Dent) - 40 vols
The Passion of Our Lord (1934 Faber)
The Aldine Bible (1934 Dent) - 4 vols
The Constant Mistress by Enid Clay (1934 Golden Cockerel Press) - 300 signed

1936 Onwards
The Green Ship (1936 Golden Cockerel Press) - 134 numbered copies
Morals and Marriage by T G Wayne (1936 Longmans Green)
Quia Amore Languego (Ed by H S Bennett) (1937 Faber) - 320
(Ed & Trans) T D N BESTERMAN : The Travels & Sufferings of Father Jean de Brebeuf
among the Hurons of Canada (1938 Golden Cockerel Press) - 300
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (1938 Dent) - 550 signed by Gill
The English Bible - Selections (1938 Ginn & Co)
Henry the Eighth by Shakespeare (1939 Ltd Ed Club) - 1950 numbered copies
Glue and Lacquer (trans Harold Acton/Lee Yi-hsieh) (1944 Golden Cockerel Press)
A Book of Alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon drawn by Eric Gill
(1987 Skelton's Press) - 50 of 550 signed by Cleverdon

READING
Joseph Thorp : Eric Gill (1929 Cape) (1929 Cape & Smith, NY)
D Attwater : Eric Gill - Workman (1941 James Clarke, London)
Evan R Gill : Bibliography of Eric Gill (1953 Cassell - 1000) (1973 Dawsons Pall Mall, reprint)
John Physick : Catalogue of the Engraved Work of Eric Gill (1963 Victoria & Albert Museum)
Evan R Gill : The Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill : An Inventory (1964 Cassell)
Edward M Catich : Eric Gill - His Social and Artistic Roots (1964 Prairie Press, Iowa)
Robert Speight : The Life of Eric Gill (1966 Methuen)
David Kindersley : Mr Eric Gill - Recollections (1967 Book Club of California, SF) - 400
Roy Brewer : Eric Gill - The Man Who Loved Letters (1973 Muller)
Malcolm Yorke : Eric Gill - Man of Flesh & Spirit (1981 Constable)
Fiona MacCarthy : Eric Gill (1989)