dominics press (93 Ergebnisse)

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

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.

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.

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'.

Paperback. Zustand: 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].

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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).

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.

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: 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.

Soft cover. Zustand: 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.

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

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'.

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.

Soft cover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. .

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Handset in Caslon and printed in black on Batchelor hand-made paper. Five wood engravings and a press device by Eric Gill. Sewn into pictoral wrappers, a bit soiled at extremities. A very good copy. First published in 1916.

8vo, (2), 131-136 pp. One wood engraving by David Jones, light marginal browning. Sewn as issued, some mild soiling. Including "Of Things Necessary and Unnecessary" by Eric Gill. Taylor & Sewell F1. Evan Gill 69(s).

8vo, (1), 62-68 pp. One wood engraving by David Jones, some light soiling and marks. Taylor & Sewell F1.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. [One of 500 copies.] Printed in Caslon Old Face in black (the title-page in black and red) on Batchelor hand-made paper. Illustrated with 20 wood engravings by Eric Gill; 1 by Eric Gill and John Beedham; 3 by Desmond Chute; and 1 by John Beedham. Grey handmade paper wrappers titled in black. A fine copy. First edition. (Taylor & Sewell A55, Gill 372).

Hardcover. First edition. 69 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 200 on batchelor hand-made paper. Wood engravings by David Jones, et al. Jones served in World War I. After the war he embraced Roman Catholicism and joined a small community of Catholic artists headed by craftsman Eric Gill, among whom he began to develop a unique concept of art and the function of the artist. Bright, very fresh copy. RANSOM 53. Backstrip slightly toned. Orig. beige cloth spine and dark buff boards. Very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. Circa 40 pages. 15 by 22 cms. Original publisher's unbleached coarse linen boards, printed in red-and-black, edges uncut. "WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE DELIVERANCE OF CONSTANTINOPLE FROM THE BARBARIANS" Father Vincent Mcnabb translates and contributes a forword.,) With the Eric Gill bookplate of his younger brother Evan Gill, his bibliographer. Bookplate shows a form of swastika against a tower on a hill with flowers. Loosely inserted is a 4 page prospectus for the book with a specimen page and suggesting a price of 10 shillings and sixpence with postage at 3d. Limited edition (200 copies) of the Akathistos Hymn. This hymn to the Theotokos, a title given to Mary in the Orthodox Church, celebrates "the Deliverance of Constantinople from the Barbarians" in 626. Translated from the original Greek by Fr Vincent McNabb, the sub-title gives Mary's title in full: "Our Holy, Immaculate, Most Blessed, Glorious Lady Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary." McNabb's Foreward laments that the Latin West "have drifted away even from the western Lady-love which gave them Ave Maris Stella and Salve Regina." One of 200 copies printed at St. Dominic's Press in September 1934. The text is arranged in 12 sections, numbered I - XII. The Greek inscription was engraved on wood by Philip Hagreen and printed in red on the front board and again after the printed title. The text concludes with a brief Bibliography and Liturgical Notes by Donald Attwater. Taylor and Sewell notes that this edition was "printed and published chiefly at the suggestion of Count and Countess Bennigsen, Eastern-rite Catholics then living in Parkhill Road, London NW3 close to St. Dominic's Priory." Very good indeed. Excellent condition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Handset in Caslon. One of 400 copies on English handmade paper. Single wood engraving by Eric Gill amidst the advertisements. Grey paper wrappers printed in black on the front, top edge trimmed. Spine worn. A very good copy. (Taylor & Sewell A28, Gill 5) In this copy the "& 6D." has not been crossed out from the "Price One Shilling & 6D." on the front cover. The pagination '5' is present. The advertisements are dated 1.vi.18.

One of 200 numbered copies, this no. 56. 5 wood-engravings by David Jones, 3 by Eric Gill: fan shaped design as tail-piece, Lawyer's Wig and St. George and the Dragon. 12 other illustrations by Chute, Harold Purney, Joe Cribb, Hilary Pepler and John Beedham. Pp. x, 69. 8vo., original cloth backed boards with the originalblue dust jacket printed in gold stuck down on the pastedowns boards. Jacket rather faded and chipped at the spine, otherwise a good, uncut copy. Notes at the beginning suggest that "Stock-taking' might have been a more appropriate title as the material was collected from racks and gallies in the printing office during the stock-taking. A very attractive book.

Second edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 55. Five wood-engravings [by Desmond Chute], which are so much in the manner of Eric Gill that they are often wrongly attributed to him. The Press device on the title-page, however, is by Gill. Cloth-backed brown paper boards. Printed on mouldmade paper. On the front free endpaper is the 1927 ownership signature of the Catholic writer Daniel Sargent who was himself published by the Saint Dominic's Press in 1930.Spine rubbed and lacking the printed title-label. A small hole in the front and rear endpapers, this being a flaw in the paper. Bump to fore-edge of front cover. Very good. Scarce.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. [One of 1300 (+ 200 signed) copies.] Illustrated with 12 wood engravings or devices of which 11 are by by Eric Gill. Quarter grey cloth, with black spine titling (occasionally it is black cloth and unlettered), red paper-covered boards repeating the title-page. Half-title very lightly yellowed. A fine copy. First edition. Although printed at the Westminster Press, this book is always associated with the Saint Dominic's Press as being the first joint production of Gill and Pepler. A prospectus describes it as 'a sociological satire containing an account of a cinema entertainment in Satan's Circuit and an appreciation of No.27, an English working man'. (Gill 259).