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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. KB58.102, [viii] pp. Quarto. Brown cloth with gilt title within a box on the front cover, faded gilt on the spine. Spine a bit sunned with some light rubbing at top and tail. Interior clean and unmarked. Red and black title page. Limited edition of 550 of which this is number 470. Printed on a handpress at Dropmore on cream wove paper hand made by Hodgkinson of Wells (with attendant uneven fore- and bottom edges. A collection of eleven sermons from Mons. Knox: Success; Homage; Greatness; Truth; Light; Zeal; A.M.D.G.; Individuality; Life; Permanence; Heroism. Knox (1888-1957) was an English Catholic theologian and classicist, well-known for his new translation of the Bible, among other feats of scholarly brilliance. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 102 pages.

See Knox's entry in the Oxford DNB, along with those of his father Edmund Arbuthnott Knox, his brothers Ronald, Dillwyn and Wilfred, his wife the 'Mary Poppins' illustrator Mary Shepard (daughter of Ernest Shepard) and his daughter the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald. At the time the present material was composed Knox had been involved with Punch for more than four decades (1904-1948), holding the editorship for the last sixteen, with the magazines circulation rising to a peak of almost 200,000 as he approached his retirement. He was well aware of Punch's place as a national institution - according to the Punch historian R. G. G. Price, colleagues remarked that 'working with him was a little like helping to edit the Journal of Hellenic Studies' - and the respect he felt for the magazine is apparent in the present material, which comprises two talks, both given immediately after Knox's retirement. Apparently unpublished, the material provides an astute and entertaining overview of the magazine, its achievements (including, Knox claims, the invention of the modern cartoon, of the name Crystal Palace, and of the institution of Poppy Day) and its place in British social history; and are well-written with wit and evident pride and including some personal observations. Of the four items, one (Item Three) is in autograph, the others typed; with each page in all four on a separate leaf. The first talk is complete, the second lacks three pages of twenty-two; of the two drafts the typescript (Item Four) lacks two pages, while around half of the autograph (Item Three) is present. The material is in good overall condition. While there is a degree of overlap, the first talk (Item One, 1948) deals with Punch's place in the British social history, and the second (Item Two, c.1949) with the politics of the magazine, with Knox addressing its Radical origins from a firmly Conservative standpoint. Items Three and Four are drafts of Item One. ONE. Complete carbon typescript of talk entitled '100 Years of Punch', headed 'Hampstead Subscription Library. November, 1948'. 18pp, foolscap 8vo. Single-spaced on eighteen leaves (the first two larger than the others). Slight creasing to first few leaves, but in good overall condition. Complete; with a duplicate copy that lacks the last page. Knox begins with a lighthearted explanation of his intentions in giving the talk: 'what I am going to say is really no more than a personal impression of Punch. Let me at once, and at the outset correct a possible misapprehension. I have not myself been connected with Punch for a hundred years. The first printed contribution I made to it was in 1905, so that for a good deal of the history of the paper, which was started in 1841, I have to trust to the records and the memories of others, and to the bound volumes of the past.' While it is, as he explains, 'that earlier part with which I have nothing to do that I should like to speak chiefly tonight - a Victorian period of Punch about as distant from the age we now live in as ancient Greece or Rome', but first of all he would like to say 'a word or two about recent Editors'. He describes how, 'despite the lapse of time and the stupendous changes in our national life the publication of Punch has been continued unbroken week after week', apart from in 1946, when 'two consecutive numbers failed to appear, and under my Editorship. This was due not to my own shortcomings but the shortcomings of coal. But it broke the continuity and we had to be content with two cartoons published by courtesy of The Times. Doubtless all the former editors turned in their graves to reproach me.' He gives an account of the removal of the celebrated Punch table (carved with initials of contributors, and now in the British Library) from Bouverie Street during the Second World War, and describes the portraits of contributors which hang on the walls of the dining room, in a line which 'runs round three walls and a half, and nobody knows what will happe.

First, Limited Edition. Quarto, 102 pages, brick red cloth, untrimmed fore-edge, light 'fingerprints' on top cover, some warping to the book from poor storage. Copy no 173 of only 550 copies ( of which only 50 were signed by Waugh, and issued in a special binding). Handsomely hand-printed on handmade paper. The topics include Truth, Zeal, Success, Individuality, A.M.D.G., Heroism, Greatness, Light.