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(Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1929). 32mo. (5)pp. With a cover illustration, dragon headpiece, and four square vignettes by Eric Gill, depicting a child's encounter with night-time fears. In this poem by Press founder Hilary Pepler, a boy asks his nurse if dragons, ghosts, and goblins exist as he is tucked.....

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Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Octavo. (vii), 18, (i)pp. Illustrated with two full-page woodcuts by Eric Gill, plus a title-page device. The text comprises a lecture Gill delivered at Manchester University in 1928, revised for this edition. This is Gill's own copy, with his bookplate on the front.....

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(1924). Intaglio print. Initialed by the artist, Eric Gill. This intaglio print "Leda" is a design for the engraving on copper of the same name. In it, a naked Leda is seated on the grass, wrapped in an amorous embrace with Zeus, in the form of a swan. The bird's.....

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NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. Octavo. First American edition. One of 1,000 copies comprised of sheets from the first edition with a new title page. This is Heaney's first commercially produced verse collection, preceded by Eleven Poems, a pamphlet published by Queen's University in Belfast. The future Nobel Laureate's richly.....

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(1928). Engraving on paper measuring 8 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches. One of ten copies signed by Gill in lower right corner. Matted and held within an unglazed frame. Two border decorations that appear in the Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Canterbury Tales. Very fine. (Physick 525; 526).

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(1928). Engraving on paper measuring 8 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches. One of ten copies signed by Gill in lower right corner. Matted and held within an unglazed frame. Two border decorations that appear in the Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Canterbury Tales. Very fine. (Physick 519; 520).

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(1924). Engraving on paper measuring 9 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. One of eleven copies signed by Gill in lower right corner. Matted and held within an unglazed frame. The third of a series of portraits of the Lowinsky family engraved by Gill. Very fine. (Physick 278).

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Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1934. Small quarto. 79pp. One of 250 copies, signed and numbered by the author, Hilary D. C. Pepler. An essay written and hand-printed by Pepler for the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago. Illustrated with two wood engravings by David Jones and many facsimile examples of.....

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(Ditchling: 1916). Engraving on paper measuring 2 3/4 inches, printed on a sheet of proofing paper measuring 7 3/4 by 6 5/16. Signed by Gill in lower right corner. Mounted and matted. This engraving was used in Mary Sat A-Working, published by St. Dominic's Press in 1916; it apeared again.....

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Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1928. Octavo. (iii), 26pp. Illustrated with a wood engraving by David Jones of a Dominican friar on the title page and for January, as well as thirteen other wood engravings by Mary Dudley Short. A calendar listing the saint's days and other holy celebrations for each.....

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Glasgow: Bryce, David, & Son, (c. 1900-1905). Five miniature volumes. (127); (127); (240); (384); (127)pp. The volumes included are: Golden Thoughts from Great Authors; Witty, Humorous, and Merry Thoughts; Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; The Smallest English Dictionary in the World; and Old English, Scotch, and Irish.....

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(London): Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Tall octavo. (16)pp. One of 500 numbered copies. Illustrated with one full-page wood engraving and a four-line initial capital by Gill. This edition of Gill's "sermon," reflecting on the 136th Psalm, marks the first use of Gill's Perpetua Roman and Felicity Italic typefaces. Bound in.....

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