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[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]; CLAY, Enid; GILL, Eric (illustrator).

The Constant Mistress.

The Constant Mistress.

Stock Code 107947

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934

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The Constant Mistress was issued as a sister volume to Clay's Sonnets & Verses, in similar format, with new engravings by her brother Eric Gill. This is number 186 of the regular edition (250 were bound in cloth-backed paper boards and 50 in full morocco), and is signed by both Eric Gill and Enid Clay on the colophon.

Limited edition, number 186 of 300 copies, signed by the author and illustrator; 8vo; 6 wood engravings by Eric Gill, tissue guards, light toning to endpapers, otherwise unmarked internally; original cloth-backed green boards, paper label to spine, boards slightly faded, edges partly unopened, others uncut, overall a very good copy.

Gill 293.

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