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The Devil's Devices or Control versus Service. By Douglas Pepler, with Woodcuts by Eric Gill Hammersmith: Hampshire House Workshops, 1915. First edition, one of 200 'proof' copies signed by Gill and Pepler, 8vo, original cloth-backed printed epaper boards, publisher's slip tipped to front pastedown ('I have been grieved to learn ...'), bookplate of Augustus Theodore Bartholomew (1882-1933), Cambridge librarian, covers slightly rubbed [Evan Gill 259: 'This is no. 1 of S. Dominic's Press publications]; Cottage Economy by William Cobbet. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Hammersmith: published by Douglas Pepler at the Hampshire House Workshops, 1916. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed printed paper boards, wood-engraved diagram by Gill, inscribed by Eric Gill 'to Mrs. Louisa Bourne, from E & E Gill, Hopkins Crank, Ditchling, Sunday March 3, 1918' on front free endpaper, wood-engraved bookplate of one Basil Truscott Hargrave [Evan Gill 313: 'This is no. 3 of S. Dominic's Press publications']; The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare. With Engravings by Eric Gill and an Introduction by Gilbert Murray. [New York:] printed by Hague and Gill, High Wycombe, for member of The Limited Editions Club, 1933. 2 copies, each one of 1500 signed by Gill, 8vo, original pigskin, original card slipcases, one from the library of Eric Gill's daughter Petra Helen Gill (1906-1999), with her bookplate (designed by Gill), spine of the other copy slightly dry; Handworkers' Pamphlets No. 4. Art and Manufacture. London: Fanfare Press, 1929. First edition, one of 60 copies signed by Eric Gill ('Eric G'), single unsigned gathering of 8 leaves, white paper wrappers, a few spots to rear wrappers [Evan Gill 21]; Uncle Dottery. A Christmas Story by T. F. Powys. With two wood-engravings by Eric Gill Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1930. First edition, one of 200 copies signed by Powys, 8vo, original black quarter cloth [Evan Gill 394] (6) Provenance: Property of an English collector.