The Seven Deadly Virtues (Signed Copy)

Stock No. 11430

Authors: Denis, TEGETMEIER [with a foreword by Eric Gill]

London : Lovat Dickinson Limited, (1934)

Number 89 of 250 copies signed by Eric Gill and Denis Tegetmeier. First Edition. 42 full-page illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier.With a foreword by Eric Gill. 111 pages. Printed in Gill's Perpetua type on Japon vellum paper. Small folio (295 mm); publisher's original black cloth, bright gilt lettering on spine. A Fine copy without the dust-jacket. Gill calls Tegetmeier's satirical drawings "funny or bitter, and not their meaning only, but also, and chiefly, the actual lines of which they are made. God alone knows whether the Seven Deadly Virtues, as here envisaged, are not seven mortal sins". The Virtues, here Humility, Chastity, Diligence, Brotherly Love, Temperance, Liberality and Meekness, are each illustrated by 6 drawings with quotations.