ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. [PEPLER, H.D.C.] GILL, Eric. JONES, David. ~ Pertinent and Impertinent, an assortment of verse.
Ditchling
S. Dominic’s Press
1926
One of 200 numbered copies, this no. 56. 5 wood-engravings by David Jones, 3 by Eric Gill: fan shaped design as tail-piece, Lawyer’s Wig and St. George and the Dragon. 12 other illustrations by Chute, Harold Purney, Joe Cribb, Hilary Pepler and John Beedham. Pp. x, 69. 8vo., original cloth backed boards with the originalblue dust jacket printed in gold stuck down on the pastedowns boards. Jacket rather faded and chipped at the spine, otherwise a good, uncut copy.
Notes at the beginning suggest that “Stock-taking’ might have been a more appropriate title as the material was collected from racks and gallies in the printing office during the stock-taking.
A very attractive book.
Gill engravings - Physick 169, 230, 90. Taylor & Sewell A139.
Stock ref: 11993
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