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Eric Gill & The Cockerel Press
The name of Eric Gill is probably most widely known today as a type designer. As an artist, he was much more than that, a letter cutter in stone, a sculptor and a wood engraver

Eric Gill and the Golden Cockerel Press
Creating a series of elegant, distinctive typefaces for the Golden Cockerel Press marked a dramatic turning point in the prodigious career of Eric Gill. Before starting the project in 1929, Gill had already earned a wide reputation in England as a sculptor, stonecutter, and wood-engraver — and also as a controversial socialist, pacifist, and liberal Catholic convert. The Golden Cockerel typefaces, commissioned specifically for a special edition of the Four Gospels, were his first efforts as a full-fledged type designer

ITC Golden Cockerel
Late in 1995 my good friend Dave Farey told me he had acquired certain rights to the Golden Cockerel typefaces that Eric Gill had designed in 1929

Robert Gibbings
The huge, genial figure of Robert Gibbings first loomed into my life around 1953. I had been commissioned by the Limited Editions Club to design an edition of Charles Darwin’s record of The Voyage of the Beagle which Robert was to illustrate with wood engravings

Golden Cockerel Press
The British private presses of the heroic early years took many forms. Some, like St John Hornby’s Ashendene Press, were unashamedly the spare-time indulgencies of wealthy men: Hornby was the director of the big bookselling chain of W. H. Smith

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