Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1920. Octavo. viii, (36)pp. Second edition. Eric Gill's copy of this treatise on the craft of engraving on wood, which contains an introduction. ten engravings and two diagrams by him. The Introduction of this copy has been annotated by Gill, with pencil corrections to his..... More
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1923. Quarto. (ii), 75pp. One of 220 copies, printed in red and black with musical notations. Contains twelve wood engravings by Eric Gill and two by Desmond Chute. The book was printed for actual use by Dominican novices. A copy was displayed in the permanent exhibition..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, (1919). 24mo. 47pp. Gill's wood engraving, "The Last Judgment," appears at the beginning of text. In this installment in St. Dominic's series of welfare handbooks, the compiler has selected passages from the New Testament that describe the punishments due to sinners of various types (the..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1919. 24mo. 15pp. Translated by Fr. Vincent McNabb, St. Aquinas' ideas of civic involvement in urban life here find platform in one of St. Dominic's series of ten welfare handbooks. Bound in the variant red wrappers with titling in black ink. Generic edgewear and some..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, (1919). 24mo. 22pp. Desmond Chute's signature hound-and-torch engraving appears both at the colophon and on the upper cover. The only other illustration to this compilation of extracts from St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica is an engraving of a cockerel on p. 20. Otherwise, Aquinas' musings..... More
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1923. Octavo. vii, 26pp. First edition. Printed in red and black, with a preface and notes by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler. Illustrated with three wood engravings by David Jones and six by Gill. This is the fortieth St. Dominic's Press publication, and one of the..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1922-1923. 24mo. 24; 22; 14pp. Across all three texts are wood engravings by Gill, mainly as head- and tail-pieces, but also with his "Christ and the Money Changers" at the start of the final text, War Memorial. Desmond Chute contributed his hound to handbooks eight..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1921. Two 24mo vols. Both (ii), 13, (4)pp. Two full-page wood engravings by Eric Gill, who with condescending hand points out the vanity of the modern woman. Also with three engravings by Desmond Chute: peacock devices on cover and title page, and his hound-and-torch at..... More
(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..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1919. 24mo. 30pp. Eric Gill's own copy, with his bookplate inside the front cover. Four head- and tail-pieces by Gill, whose stylistic knack for negative space and stark linework mimics to great effect the woodcuts found in earlier chapbooks. The two remaining illustrations are by..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1919. 24mo. 30pp. Four head- and tail-pieces by Gill, whose stylistic knack for negative space and stark linework mimics to great effect the woodcuts found in earlier chapbooks. The two remaining illustrations are by John Beedham and Desmond Chute. The accompanying treatise - one of..... More
