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Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1933. 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.|Taylor & Sewell A159a

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1928. First edition. One of 250 copies, this no.73. Printed on Batchleor hand-made paper. 4to., original full beige linen with printed paper label on upper cover, errata slip tipped in plus a spare binding label. Very good copy.||Tipped onto the front pastedown is an als dated November 1929 from Pepler to Mr. Frank Glenn about this book as well as details about ordering specially printed notepaper and bookplates. The prospectus is inserted loose and there is a St. Dominic’s printed note: “Readers will be interested to know that a copy of this book was presented to Our Holy Father the Pope...”|Taylor & Sewell A159 With letter from Pepler on Press paper

Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1933. 8 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. No. 128 of 250 copies. Printed in Bembo type on Portal’s handmade paper. Sm. 4to, mustard-yellow Welsh sheepskin with title in a pattern of rules in gilt on the upper cover, spine titled in gilt. A fairly good example of a notoriously weak binding, spotting and marking to the sheepskin, spine a little rubbed, usual offset from turn-ins.||John Sampson was an Irish linguist and scholar, best known for The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales (1926) and for his examination of Welsh Romani folk stories. The text for this powerfully illustrated Gregynog Press book was edited by John Sampson’s literary executor Dora Yates who kept considerable control over all the stages of production. The mustard-yellow binding was at her behest - she had demanded that it must be bound in a ‘gipsy colour, either red or yellow’.Agnes Miller Parker was one of the greatest of the female wood engravers from of the first half of the 20th century. She… Read More