Desmond Chute (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback in wraps, both with some light creases (faintly visible on early and late pages; effect minor); a few marks on wraps; content clear, and pages clean and sound. TS. Gill, Eric; Chute, Desmond (illustrator). Used.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. SIGNED COPY, 1000 copies only, 51pp, illustrated, brown card covers with cream dustwrapper, Copy signed and dedicated to previous owner by John Dreyfus; 51 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First printing, sixteenmo size, 87 pp. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable", with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which supposedly had belonged to William Morris. Pepler endeavored to do everything possible by hand, believing that such would both produce the best results and also be a "more individual or 'humane'.product". He therefore "preferred the handpress to the machine, handmade to machine-made paper, and handset founder's type to the products of typesetting machines." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in quarter-cloth silver paper boards with "Desmond Chute engraving of St Dominic on front board. Title page engraving Dominican Friar (E48) by David Jones." Printed by hand on a Stanhope Press; sixteenmo size (5.9" x 4.6"), pagination: [1-3] i-ix [x-xi] 1-62 [1 page blank, colophon]. ___CONDITION: Volume is very good overall, with a strong, square text block and solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; front and rear silver boards have a slight mottled loss of color, the corners are bumped and rubbed; please note this copy is missing the glassine dust-jacket called for in the bibliography. ___CITATION: Saint Dominic's Press Bibliography, no. A173; ; note that the quotes and much of the introductory information from "Three Private Presses" by Brocard Sewell. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.…

Paperback in card envelope. Condition: Near fine in wraps. First Edition. 20 x 26cm near fine paperback exhibition catalogue in a card envelope with minor damage to upper edge. This is number 3 of 40 special catalogues which include a copy of the wood engraving: 'David Jones and Hilary Pepler mounted on Pegasus' by David Jones, especially published for this exhibition in a limited edition, by permission of the artist's estate.…

No Jacket. First Edition. The bright crimson paper covers are in ery good condtion despite a little fading 6 September to 27 October 1989 The pages within are clean throughout Unpaginatednbsp. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Hardback, quarter cloth. 22cm x 15cm. 55pp, [1]. Five illustrations by Desmond Chute. Slight wear to binding. Rear end-papers a little marked, rest of contents not affected. A pleasing copy. (ar0). Desmond Chute (illustrator).

Boards with linen Spine. Second Edition. 55p. Second Edition. A very good copy with light soiling to covers. Printed paper label on front board. With wood engravings by Desmond Chute. Printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. A previous owner's (Charles Lambert Rutherston) book plate on ffep. Laid in is a postcard to Rutherston from S. Dominic's Press, discussing a Miss E. Woellworth of Brighton. Neat pencil notation on FFEP that this is one of 450 copies. Charles Lambert Rutherston was the painter William Rothenstein's elder brother. Rutherston was a prominent collector of Chinese and Western art. Upon his death, his collection was donated to the British Museum. A nice copy of a scarce book. Size: 8vo. Desmond Chute (illustrator). Book.…

Boards with linen Spine. Second Edition. 55p. Second Edition. A very good copy with light soiling to covers. Printed paper label on front board. With wood engravings by Desmond Chute. Printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. A previous owner's name and address on ffep. Laid in is an ad (6"x 3") for S. Dominic's Press listing 6 titles, including this one. Ransom, Selective Check Lists of Press Books, p. 50 (no. 33). A nice copy of a scarce book. Size: 8vo. Desmond Chute (illustrator). Book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Second Edition. Hardback, original cloth. 22 x 15cm. 55pp, [1]. Five illustrations by Desmond Chute. Slight wear only. A few pages with small marks to margins, otherwise very good. Desmond Chute (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A signed limited edition presentation copy of this abundantly illustrated collection of poems by craftsman Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler. A limited edition copy of the work, of which two hundred copies were printed, with this being No. 55.Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page, 'Mrs Cross from the author HDC Pepler 17.vii.34'.In quarter black cloth with patterned boards.Illustrated abundantly throughout with engravings by Desmond Chute, David Jones, and Harold Purney.A collection of poetry by English printer, writer and poet Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler, who was a founder in 1920 of a Catholic community of craftsmen. In quarter cloth. Externally, very smart. Shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine, with light fading. Very slight rubbing to rear board. Light offsetting to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Author's ink inscription to title page. Mark to title page. Very Good. Desmond Chute; David Jones; Harold Purney (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Original woodcut with watercolour added by the artist (including additional decoration to the foot) depicting the Madonna and Child, executed on Japanese paper. 7.6 x 5.2cm. Signed in ink to the foot "D. Chute sc. & pinxit / AD 1920". Contained within an old card mount (the sheet, measuring 22.5 x 17.5cm, with paper tape to the edges verso). The woodcut with a tiny scratch (appearing as a very small white dot) to the very top of the head of the Madonna, is otherwise is in very good condition, the colours remaining vivid. The old card mount with toning and bumping to the corners. A rare and appealing example of a woodcut, coloured and embellished in watercolour, by the artist and poet Desmond Macready Chute (1895-1962). Born in Bristol, Chute entered the Slade School of Art in London in 1912, staging his first exhibition at the New English Art Club in 1914. From this period onwards, Chute was a close friend of the artist Stanley Spencer, whom he spent a number of years encouraging to convert to Catholicism. In 1918, Chute encountered Eric Gill at work in Westminster Cathedral, which resulted in Chute's participation in the craft community at Ditchling, Sussex, and with him becoming a close colleague, assistant and "beloved brother" of Gill. The pair collaborated on several works and, in September 1918, when Gill was called up to a Royal Air Force camp at Blandford, Chute was left in charge at Ditchling, overseeing Gill's workshop and household. In 1920, Gill, Chute, Hilary Pepler, and others founded The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic at Ditchling, an explicitly Roman Catholic community of artists and craftspeople, which also saw the establishment of the St. Dominic's Press, for which Chute provided illustrations for some of its publications. The artist and poet David Jones arrived at Ditchling in 1921, where Chute was to teach him wood carving. That same year, Chute began to study to enter the Catholic priesthood, for which he was ultimately ordained in 1927. He subsequently settled in Rapallo, Italy, where he was friends with Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge, tutoring their daughter Mary de Rachewiltz, who gave an account of him during the 1940s: "Thin and very tall, a long, pale face, with lots of hair and a beard (dyed red), melodramatically stretched out on couches with layers of capes and blankets and three kinds of curtains at the windows that had to be drawn at the least change of light outside, a series of eyeglasses and eyeshades and reading lamps". Chute was buried in Rapallo, but a memorial, designed by his friend Gill, now stands in Canford Cemetery near his hometown of Bristol.…