A critic’s copy of EMPLOYMENT

A small pamphlet by Eric Gill containing an essay/polemic on unemployment with specific reference to Catholicism and therefore, his beliefs. Owned by the critic and w iter Neville Braybrooke: Eric Gill was regarded as one of the greatest craftsmen of this century, a typographer, letter cutter and a wood engraver. His conversion to Catholicism influenced his sculpture and writings and within EMPLOYMENT Gill applies his Catholic principles to the problem of modern modes of production.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Pamphlet with deep red, printed wrappers incorporating overlaps and sewn to text block. Measures 17.5cm x 11cm. Front wrapper printed in distinctive Gill Sans font, torn to top and bottom edges, thumbnail size portion of wrapper lost. Slightly watermarked front and rear. End papers lightly spotted. Front loose end paper signed by the critic and writer, ‘Neville Braybrooke 1943.’ Title page contains b/w engraving by the author. Remainder of leaves printed in his Perpetua & Joanna typefaces. Leaves lightly spotted throughout. 32 pp. collated and complete. Laid within is an undocumented engraving, typical in style and context to those of Gill, cut from another source, framed in black ink by hand and pasted to a paper card.