S. DOMINIC'S PRESS. ~ The Game. An Occasional Magazine.
With the majority of the numerous wood engravings by David Jones, Eric Gill and Desmond Chute. A large part of the contents were written by Douglas Pepler and Eric Gill.
A nearly complete set. There are 33 separate issues being all of the original 34 parts, aside from Vol I, No. 3 1917.
Apart from the first number none of the parts were issued with wrappers and are sewn as issued. A unusually bright set,
The first state of the final part (no.34). Johnston was the only person who had the final state of this number. The first state has “to be continued” printed at the end, whereas the final state accepts that this the The End of the magazine.
Of the beginnings of The Game, which he called ‘that lively magazine’, Pepler wrote “Edward Johnston, Eric Gill and myself decided to print our views about things in general which we regarded, as all men regard games, of supreme importance.” [The Hand Press, Ditchling, 1934].
The last full set to appear in auction was in 1994.