Pepler Hilary (69 results)

Paper Wraps. Condition: Good. 35 pages. Minor wear.

PF. Condition: New.

Trade Paperback. 47 pages. Two plays. Pepler was a founder of the Catholic craftsman community, The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, at Ditchling, and was a close associate of Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton. One of 500 copies on machine-made paper (following the first edition of 100 copies on handmade paper). Second edition. Wrappers chipped, thus good to very good.…

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 26 Pages Cover A Bit Worn From Handling O/W Sound.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Printed at S. Dominic's Press Ditchling. 8pp. 5 engravings by Eric Gill plus title page dragon. Inscription to page 2, Post and packing will be less than quoted by abe.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated, but issued between 1926 and 1932. Single sheet of paper. Condition: Very good. Size 8 by 5 inches. Printed in black and red. The illustration is a reduced version of Eric Gill's engraving of Madonna and Child. For further reference, see St.Dominic's Press: A Bibiliography 1916-1937 by Taylor & Sewell ref.B.39). The small rhyme sheets each have a short poem by H.D.C.Pepler (unsigned) and are headed by a small engraving. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated, but issued between 1926 and 1932. Single sheet of paper. Condition: Very good. Size 8 by 4 1/2 inches. Printed in black and red, variant issue. Illustration by Mary Dudley Short. Three stanza poem with wood engraving of a sailor dancing. For further reference, see St.Dominic's Press: A Bibiliography 1916-1937 by Taylor & Sewell ref.B.28a). The small rhyme sheets each have a short poem by H.D.C.Pepler (unsigned) and are headed by a small engraving. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated, but issued between 1926 and 1932. Single sheet of paper. Condition: Very good. Size 8 by 5 inches. Four stanza poem, printed in black and red, with an engraving of a dormouse. Variant issue. For further reference, see St.Dominic's Press: A Bibiliography 1916-1937 by Taylor & Sewell ref.B.27a). The small rhyme sheets each have a short poem by H.D.C.Pepler (unsigned) and are headed by a small engraving. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Three-quarter decorated board covers with leather spine; boards are near fine with minimal darkening and wear; text is fine (bookplate with offset), closed text sides lightly dusty, spine shows wear with very small piece missing at top and bottom, but is firm; 4.5" x 6", deckle-edged paper, hand printed with original woodcut frontispiece and end-pieces; hand numbered (91) and initialed by playwright; one of 1 of 100. 46 pages; no dust jacket. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. [vi], 62, [2] pages. In the original printed paper covers. Pages lightly browned throughout. Priced ink to the front cover 2/6.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Thus. Quarter green buckram with paper covered boards and paper title label to spine. Slight wear to edges of spine, a little marking to boards. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers, clean text throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper (Geoffrey A.M. Whittall) and name to front free endpaper. Reprinted from the 17th edition of 1850, with woodcut of ices houses by Eric Gill on p165. An early production from Pepler and Gill, who later established the St. Dominic's Press. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5 x 7.5 inches (12.5 x 19 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: vi, 194.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Small 8vo, 7 preliminary pages, 26 pages, "The Price of This Book is Five Shillings" text printed in red and dated 25.x.23, illustrated with wood engravings by Eric Gill, near fine condition in decorated paper covered boards and cloth spine, title label on front board, top and bottom of spine bumped and rubbed, text in fine, clean condition. Eric Gill (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cover illustration and frontispiece by David Jones.An early example of the St. Dominic's Press founded by Eric Gill and Edward Johnston. The unattributed play and illustrations by David Jones reflect the religious ethos of the press. A very good copy apart from some glue marks from the previous owner's bookplate on the plain pages not effecting text or frontispiece illustration. Also contains a further small illustrated plate on front end papers. David Jones (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With preface and notes by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler. Illustrated with 6 wood engravings by Eric Gill and 3 by David Jones. 8vo. [173 x 131 x 15 mm]. vii, 26, [1] pp. Original blue cloth with printed paper label on upper cover. (Slight toning to cloth with minor fraying to the head of the spine). Internally clean, overall a presentable copy. The title is taken from one of the poems which was included by Gill to celebrate the seventeenth birthday of his daughter Petra. Eric Gill and David Jones (illustrator).…

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 125 pages with woodcuts throughout the publication. Hardcover / Original publisher's illustrated Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Hilary Pepler, also known as Douglas Pepler, was born at Eastbourne to a Quaker family and educated at Bootham School. After school, he tried several occupations including land surveying, the tea trade and engineering. In the early 1900s, Pepler moved to Hammersmith, London with his wife Clare Whiteman, and obtained employment with London City Council in the department of child-care. He developed an interest in social theory and how to improve the lives of working people in the face of industrialisation, writing several tracts on the subject. On a practical level, he was instrumental in the introduction of free school meals; by any standards, a very considerable achievement. His experience of Social Work however, left him skeptical as to the ultimate value of such initiatives and most inclined to support self-help as a better means of eradicating poverty. Hammersmith at the time was something of an Arts and Crafts enclave and Pepler became deeply involved in the movement and the socialist politics of Fabianism. He soon became friends with Edward Johnston, later meeting Eric Gill. These three formed a close bond, spending many hours debating social and artistic issues. Pepler with Susan and Stephen (1916). Notwithstanding Gill's move to Ditchling in 1907, Pepler continued to develop his ideas and maintained contact. One major initiative that he was involved in was founding the Hampshire House Club in 1907, a working men's club in Hammersmith with a strong political and didactic agenda. When war broke out, the organisation was used as a basis to organise workshop facilities for refugee Belgian craftsmen in a structure not unlike what the Guild was to become. Indeed, lessons learnt from this experience were to inform the way the Guild was set up. Another major project for Pepler was writing The Devil's Devices which was published in 1915 by Hampshire House itself. It is a satire, not just opposing capitalism and industrialisation, but also Trade Unionism, Government and even general education which he sees as an unnecessary distraction in the lives of the working classes. He gives support to the Distributist ideas of small workshops, owned by the workers, as the preferable mode of economic entity but goes beyond most thinkers by declaring everything else being the work of the devil. What he seems to be proposing borders on a benign form of anarchy with no central provision, and his views have obviously moved a long way beyond what could be appropriate for an official with LCC. It is of little surprise that he was by now looking for different employment. (Source: The Guild of St.Joseph and St. Dominic).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A scarce first issue dated 1916, with red George and the Dragon illustration to front cover. Publisher's wraps bound with string. Some age-toning to covers, corners very lightly curled, edges untrimmed resulting in protrusion. Binding is strong and pages remain bright, without spots or significant handling marks. One spot of residue to inner rear cover. Illustrated with five engravings by Eric Gill. A very scarce example of the true first issue, published during Gill's formative years spent in Ditchling. Eric Gill (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Signs of wear at cover corners. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Booklet, stitched. 13 x 9.5cm. [8]pp. Six engravings and a press device by Eric Gill. Covers age discoloured and slightly soiled. Inside some toning to paper. Printed in numerous editions, this variant not the bibliography.

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Soft cover. Condition: G+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Softcover with modest wear, one paper cover is detached but present thus good plus. Lovely example of small press printing. Eric Gill and others (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First and Limited Edition. No. 431 of 450 copies, twenty-fourmo size, [58] pp., numbered and initialled by HDCP. 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." Pepler met Edward Johnston and Eric Gill while living in Hammersmith; Pepler and his family would eventually move to Ditchling to join Gill, who was one of the most important artists to provide illustrations for the St. Dominic's Press. Other artists who provided illustrations included David Jones, Desmond Chute, Philip Hagreen, and Mary Dudley Short, among others. This work a compilation of the following plays: "The Horse", "The Ox and the Ass", "St Martin", "The Cat Burglar", "Running Water", and "Crockodile". Pepler "had his own puppet theatre at Ditchling" and his puppets performed "The Ox and the Ass" at an international marionette festival in 1929. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in quarter blue cloth over paper-covered boards, this the alternate binding noted in the bibliography with a brown paper label on the front board with black lettering and ruled border, top edge rough-cut, fore- and bottom edges uncut, numbered and initialled by Hilary Pepler on the title page, with five wood-engraved illustrations (one repeated) by Mary Dudley Short; twenty-fourmo size (5 3/8" by 3 7/8"), with [58] pages; limited edition of 450 copies, this no. 431; note that while the title page has the date "1929" the colophon is dated "1928". ___CONDITION: Near fine: the boards without wear, the corners straight and without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a few extremely light, stray marks on the paper boards and light indication of slight damping to the cloth of the spine (with no evidence in the text block). ___CITATIONS: Taylor and Sewell, no. A174; 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. Short, Mary Dudley (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Booklet in 8 leaves (wrapper plus six), printed rectos only, and string-bound. Early issue of this Ditchling publication by Pepler, with engravings by Eric Gill. Measures 120 x 87 mm. Some moderate toning and soiling; bit of staining to rear wrapper. Size: 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Book. …

1st Edition [Gill/Corey/Mackenzie 259]. viii, 123, [5] pp. B/w woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill. 7-1/2" x 5" A solid copy of the second book Gill illustrated, with a total of 11 woodcuts including the five triangular devices. One of 1300 non-"proof" copies priced at 2s. 6d. A bit cocked. Extremity wear; spine darkened; spotting to boards; abrasion to paper overlay of rear board. Internally clean and sound overall, with only minor foxing to endpapers and occasional very minor soil to margins. About VG. Beige quarter cloth stamped in black, red paper over boards printed in black.…

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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback, card covers. 19 x 13cm. [4], 110pp, [2]. Variant edition printed on machine paper. Illustrations by Dunstan Pruden. Edges of wraps a little worn. Gift message on first blank leaf. Contents very clean. [A218a].

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Limited. Unbound booklet of leaves, [14]pp in total, appears incomplete, some leaves repeated, 15 wood engraved illustrations by Eric Gill (some of which duplicates on repeated leaves). Printed in red and black., no limitation page, 220 copies stated as being produced, butactual number likely to be less, as Pepler may have detsroyed some copies as he was not happy with the book. Incomplete, but very scarce. [775] Size: 310mm. x 250mm. Eric Gill (illustrator). …

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.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Card covers in clean, tidy condition, very slightly rubbed on the spine, Eric Gill illustration, contents clean, 47pp, not dated, c1919 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gill, Eric (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 8pp, 4 leaves, sewn, woodcut illustration by David Jones, engraved capital G by Eric Gill and one other by an unknown artist, not dated but c1929. There is some confusion over the artist responsible for the title engraving of Aspidistras, it seems most likely to be David Jones rather than Eric Gill Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Jones, David and Gill, Eric (illustrator).…