Pertinent & impertinent : an assortment of verse

Hilary Pepler

RA Collection: Book

Record number

13/3280

Author

Imprint

Ditchling, Sussex: Printed and published at St Dominic's Press, 1926

Physical Description

8 unnumbered pages, 69 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (wood-engravings), music ; 21 cm.

General Note

With wood-engravings by Desmond Chute, David Jones and Harold Purney. Also includes two wood-engravings by Eric Gill (see Gill, E. Eric Gill: a bibliography (2nd ed.), page 233.
`Pertinent and Impertinent

Note 1. Title “Stock-taking” might have been a more accurate title as the following matters were collected from racks and gallies in the printing office at that annual event. The original idea had been to set up the Pertinent verses in italic for a London publisher with the author’s illustrations reproduced on zinc blocks. But this did not pass the second reading. Some survivors will be recognized.



Note. 2. Authorship. Except where otherwise stated the author of Nisi Dominus is responsible for the Rhymes and notes.

Note. 3. Edition of two hundred copies, price 10s. 6d., of which this is No. 32.’ --unnumbered page 5.
Errors in pagination: pages 58-59 misnumbered 50-51; pages 62-63 misnumbered 54-55; pages 66-67 misnumbered 58-59. All subsequently corrected in pen.

References

M. Taylor and B. Sewell, Saint Dominics's Press: a bibliography 1916-1937. (1995). (p.83)., A139

Provenance

The back pastedown carries the book-ticket of `Stanley Scott, The Bothy [...] '

Copy Note

Copy number 32 of 200 numbered copies.

Binding Note

Bound in quarter-linen, grey paper-covered boards.

Subject

Illustrated books
Comic verse
Satire
Wood engravings
Private press books

Contributors

Desmond Chute, Illustrator, wood-engraver
David Jones, illustrator, wood-engraver
Harold Purney, illustrator, wood-engraver
Joseph Cribb, draughtsman
Hilary Pepler, author
R. John Beedham, illustrator
Eric Gill ARA, illustrator, wood-engraver
Stanley Scott, previous owner
St. Dominic's Press, publisher