Dilige Deum: Love God And Do What You Will. The Story Of An Inscription Cut In Beer Stone By Eric Gill As A Gift For Lucy Wertheim. [The Fleece Press] Gill, Eric. Art & Photography,Private & Fine Press

One of 185 copies printed from photopolymer plates, and bound at the Fleece Press in a Japanese stab binding using three different paste papers made by Sage Reynolds thirty years ago. 190 x 145mm, pp. 24. A book in Fine condition. Lucy Wertheim, who ran a London gallery during the 1930s and who saw magic in the work of Christopher Wood, bought a stone inscription from Eric Gill during 1934. The two developed a friendship, and Gill spontaneously cut a small stone as a present for her which he initialled himself, an unusual act for him.