EGO SUM RESURRECTIO ET VITA: [memorial card for David Whiteman Pepler, with a wood-engraving by Eric Gill]

Published by [Ditchling?]: [St Dominic's Press?], 1934

About this Item

127 x 75mm (image 103 x 51mm). Cream laid paper. Very faintly spotted. Printed on the verso, "DAVID / WHITEMAN / PEPLER / 23 OCT. 1905 / 2 SEPT. 1934 / DONA EI / REQUIEM // INVENIMUS EUM / IN CAMPIS SILVAE". The eldest son of Hilary Pepler (né Harry Douglas Clark Pepler), printer and writer, with Eric Gill a founding member of the Guild of St Dominic, Ditchling, David Pepler married Gill's eldest daughter, Betty, in 1927; they had three sons and two daughters before his death from throat cancer. Gill's wood-engraving (Physick 866) had been executed for The Passion of Our Lord (Hague and Gill, 1934) and would be re-used for Gill's own memorial card in 1940. Seller Inventory # 32M100343

Bibliographic Details

Title: EGO SUM RESURRECTIO ET VITA: [memorial card ...

Publisher: [Ditchling?]: [St Dominic's Press?]

Publication Date: 1934

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good