Eric Gill: Autobiography

by Eric Gill

This edition of Gill's book contains a new introduction by Fiona MacCarthy. iv , 283 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. small 8vo..

Genres: Art, Biography

283 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1940

About the author

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ARA was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.

Reviews

[Andy Holdcroft · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is nigh unreadable: partly because subsequent revelations from his own diaries have revealed not only his deeply unpleasant & criminal behaviours but how disingenuous, unreliable & self serving this autobiography is. Equally it's unreadable due to how it's written. A few moments hint coyly at his true proclivities & a few (early) passages on his childhood are slightly less unreadable, but there are long rambling incoherent, pompous diatribes which tend to provide his bogus religious smokescreen.