Leda

1929

Special Collections PR6015 U9 L4 1929

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company

Just after completing images for The Canterbury Tales in 1929, Gill was commissioned to illustrate Aldous Huxley’s Leda, a long poem that dealt with adultery and disillusionment. Huxley, best known for his dystopia novel Brave New World, wrote the poem in 1920. As early as 1926, Gibbings endeavoured to expand The Golden Cockerel Press list, seeking new titles by leading authors. Leda was produced by the US firm Doubleday ‘by special arrangement with the Golden Cockerel Press’. The work contains two wood-engravings by Gill.