Dominics Press (112 results)

No Binding. Condition: As New. [Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 19. Broadsheet (460 x 195mm) printed one side only in black and four colours. No folds.

paper wrappers. 8vo. paper wrappers. (viii), 43 pages. First edition. The press is known for using many of Eric Gill's illustrations and devices. St. Dominic's Press (illustrator).

8vo. quarter-cloth with illustrated paper-covered boards. (iv), viii, 40 pages. With Introduction and Appendix by Eric Gill. Reprint of the second edition (Taylor and Sewell, no.A76; Even Gill, no. 77). Ownership ink, stamps of Lucie G. Jowers to the front pastedown and front free endpaper. Rebacked with a pebbled cloth spine, else a near fine copy. Illustrations include five engravings by Eric Gill, and twenty-eight other designs and illustrations. Gill also supplied the text for the introduction and appendix. Two other engravings by Desmond Chute are included. Title page and front cover include the St. Dominic Press device. quarter-cloth with illustrated paper-covered boards. Saint Dominic's Press (illustrator).…

oblong 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. unpaginated. Sewell 66. Written and illustrated by W.R. Macklin and H.A. Rigby. A description of the sixteen pictures in Christ's Hospital Chapel by Frank Brangwyn. Includes a general essay and descriptions, with illustrations, of each. Covers sunned at edges. Tanning on and along spine. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. St. Dominic's Press (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, 1923. The Ditchling Press. Very good copy in very slightly marked paper wrappers as issued. Wood engravings by Eric Gill & David Jones. Woodcut illustrations. (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Published by special permission of His Excellency the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Printed wrappers. Nice copy. Scarce piece of press ephemera. The four page substance of the pamphlet by Dom Gilbert Higgins is basically a plea for funds.Bookplate of Evan Gill.

Five illustrations after Frank Brangwyn's paintings in Christ's Hospital. Oblong 4to., original white linen spine with printed blue paper covered boards with illustration on upper cover, a superb copy. Frank Brangwyn was a long time inhabitant of Ditchling and paintings and drawings of local people were often incorporated into his work. This book begins with "There is no finer of more representative example of the work of Frank Brangwyn than the sixteen pictures in Christ's Hospital.and nor is there anywhere a decorative scheme more grandly planned". The pictures are immense and beautiful, these illustrations giving a taster of the real thing.…

4 leaves. 8 unpaginated pages. 16mo. 9 centimeters by 12 centimeters. Dusty but very good indeed. Evan Gill 272 describes the first edition of 1923 and a subsequent edition of 1929, but makes no mention of an undated issue. Wood engravings by Gill: lawyer's wig on cover-title; bird in cage on verso of third leaf; angel before tombstone on verso of last leaf. 'WITABEL WATLO' engraving [by David Jones?] on recto of third leaf. Prob. Taylor & Sewell 117c.…

Variant edition printed on machine paper. Illustrated with diagrams of movements &c. by Dunstan Pruden. Pp. viii, 112. 8vo., original printed buff paper wrappers, some wear to spine and edges, upper wrapper apparently tipped onto book, one ex-library stamp but still not a bad copy. The mimes, with full directions, include 'The Stations of the Cross', 'The Rosary', 'St. George and the Turkish Knight', 'Harlequinade' and 'Sir Galahad'.…

Limited edition, one of 500 copies from a total edition of 600, 4to, (viii), 41, (2) pp. 8 small wood engravings by Philip Hagreen plus the press device by Eric Gill, small piece torn from the corner of the fly leaf. Original linen backed boards, a little scuffed. Taylor & Sewell A176a.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. With a fine wood-engraving of a pipe, image size 7 x 6 cm. Removed from a an album or endpaper, but face in fine condition. Basil was a Ditchling resident.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Booklet, stitched. 19 x 13cm. 16pp. Cover illustration by Desmond Chute, David Jones engraving inside. 55 items listed followed by adverts. Stitching now loose. [J28].

Small 8vo. Pages: viii + 24 + [4 blanks]. Original cream paper wraps: title and price in red and engraving in green on front. Wraps discoloured, rubbed, sl. turned at edge, and stained, with covers loosening and loss at foot of spine. Internally sound and tight, but quite heavily foxed. Dated ownership inscription on flyleaf. Titlepage vignette and 15 engravings. Collection of whimsical poems about places like Hampstead Garden Suburb and people like G. K. Chesterton and Bernard Shaw. Taylor & Sewell A125b. With: H.D.C. Pepler, Aspidistras and Parlers. St. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1927. 4 leaves. 13 x 9 cm. Two woodcuts and initial letter by Gill. This was one of the Rhyme Booklets (No.9) in St. Dominic's Press Book List published 1930. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Good condition.…

5 wood-engravings, one repeated on upper cover, by Mary Dudley Short. One of 450 copies, monogrammed and numbered by Pepler on the title-page. 12mo., original black cloth backed, printed paper covered boards with wood-engraving of a cow puppet on upper cover., water marking on boards and some wear to headcaps, usual browning to free endpapers, otherwise good. Works written by Hilary Pepler for his puppet theatre.…

By Johan Picus, Erle of Myrandula.expressed in balade by Sir Thomas More, Knyghte, sometime Lo. Chancellour of England. Second edition in smaller format with a new preface. Initial letters printed in red throughout. Sm. 8vo., original blue printed paper wrappers, a very good uncut copy. A ballad detailing the pleasures, pains and vicissitudes of earthly love and the constancy and the higher aim and joys to be found in the love of God. Inserted loose is a 4 page prospectus from 'Pepler & Sewell, publishers at the St. Dominic's Press' of English works of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Handset in Caslon and printed on hand-made paper. David Jones engraving `Dominican Friar' on title-page. Quarter black canvas, black and green patterned paper-covered boards titled in black and with an engraving of children. Some light wear. A very good copy. `Booklist 1930 notes an edition of 480 copies.' (Taylor & Sewell A158).…

Second edition. Octavo. pp viii, 36. 10 textual wood engravings and two diagrams by Eric Gill; sample engravings at rear (not in the first edition of 1920) by Desmond Chute, David Jones and Eric Gill. Linen-backed grey paper boards. Spine slightly darkened. Covers a bit rubbed at the corners. Very good. No dustwrapper.…

First edition. Small octavo. pp [iv], 62. Title-page wood engraving by David Jones. Cloth-backed silver paper boards with cover engraving by Desmond Chute. Tipped onto the front pastedown is the plate of the St. Bede's Hawkesyard Library. The covers have largely de-silvered over time. Some rubbing to edges. Sporadic spotting. Good.…

[16] pp. Condition: Self wrappers, sewn. Fine. [16] pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies (this being #71). Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [43pp]. Paper-covered cloth lettered in black at the upper board. Errata slip laid-in. A touch of minor spotting to the top edge, else in virtually fine state with dust wrapper, rubbed at the upper edge with one short jagged tear, a touch of dust soiling and some unsightly red off-set staining to the margins of the rear panel. The three errors noted on the errata slip have all been neatly corrected in pencil (and could be easily erased if desired).…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 24mo. [ii], 22pp. Illustrated with two small wood engravings, one repeating the cover image. A fine, unopened and untrimmed copy. Issued as Welfare Handbook, No.4.

4pp. One sheet folded as issued. Slightly dusty with a few spots.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Title-page vignette and 13 costume designs by Thomas Derrick. Stiff green wrappers, titled and decorated in black. Book label of Evan Gill. A fine copy, Rare.

5 wood-engravings, one repeated on upper cover, by Mary Dudley Short. One of 450 copies, monogrammed and numbered by Pepler on the title-page. 12mo., original black cloth backed, printed paper covered boards with wood-engraving of a cow puppet on upper cover. A few marks to the boards, otherwise good. Works written by Hilary Pepler for his puppet theatre.…

Small engraved vignette of Christ with cross on title page, repeated on upper cover. 8vo., original dark blue printed wrappers, a very good, crisp copy. 19 poems by Mother Mary Thomas (Caroline Mercer) 1867-1949 of Tyburn Convent. She was the author of a number of booklets on the English martyrs and at least two novels 'The House with the Dummy Windows' and 'The Anchoress's Window'.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Single leaf of hand-made paper printed in red and black. Nice copy. Np, nd, Taylor & Sewell G 11.

First edition. Octavo. 41 pages. Quarter leather. Religious verse.Free endpapers lightly tanned. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges and slightly marked. Very good. Very scarce: Library Hub lists only two copies.

Hardcover. First edition. pp. 26. Slim 8vo. Navy cloth over b&w patterned paper boards, with title label to front board. Printed on handmade paper, and with untrimmed edges. Woodcuts by David Jones and Mary Dudley Short. Corners lightly bumped,scuff to ffep, contents clean and crisp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Folded sheet forming 8pp, sewn but unopened. Title in red & black, small piece nipped from lower corner of first leaf [natural paper flaw], else a fine copy. ** Title with Eric Gill's woodcut Angel & Gravestone c.3 x 3 cms, and final leaf with Ditchling Press device also woodcut by Gill. *** Scarce. Amongst Eric Gill's earliest wood-engraved work : and one of the very first pieces produced by Pepler's Ditchling Press. *** In this same year, Gill also designed a woodcut bookplate for Everard Meynell, 'an artist manqué, a journalist, and finally a bookshop-keepr, where he specialised in 17thC poets and sold prints by Eric Gill and Lovat Fraser'. Everard was the older brother of Francis Meynell, and died of tuberculosis in 1926 [see Meynell : My Lives]. See Gill 262 : and Taylor/Sewell A7. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 12mo. 40 pages. 130 by 95 mms.A S. Dominic's Press imprint bound with Original publisher's beige line cloth back strip and black matt paper boards, a variant with no titling on cover. Design and layout with different sized lettering, only two woodcuts, almost certainly by Eric Gill, one a small circular vignette of a lamb with a cross on the title page the other on page 11 of two robed figures, a man and a woman, with a large heavy cross. On the rear of the title page is printed 'Nihil Obstat: S. Georgius Canonicus Kieran-Hyland, S.T.D. Imprimatur: Petrus Episcopus Southwarcensis.' With the plain bookplate of Eric Gill's younger brother and biblio grapher Evan Gill reading 'E Collectione Evan Gill Liverpool.' Faint scuffing, no inscriptions, very good indeed with very clean text. .…