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St Dominic's Press. Collection of St Dominic’s Press books from the library of Dunstan Pruden (1907-1974), Ditchling: St Dominic's Press, 1921-34, comprising: 1. Pertinent and Impertinent. An Assortment of Verse, 1926, woodcut vignettes by Eric Gill David Jones and others, a few page-numbers corrected in manuscript, bookplate of Dunstan and Anne Pruden, original cloth-backed printed boards, spine worn, boards discoloured, 8vo, number 65 of 200 copies, 2. The Common Carol Book. A Collection of Christmas and Easter Hymns, 1926, woodcut vignettes by Eric Gill bookplate of Philip and Angela Lowery, closed marginal tear in pp. 49/50, original cloth-backed printed boards, printed label to front, spine sunned and rubbed, cloth slightly brittle, discolouration and soiling to boards, 8vo, number 154 of 225 copies, 3. Patron Saints. A List compiled by J. H. Whale, 1930, woodcut title-device by Eric Gill bookplate of Philip and Angela Lowery, original cloth, cloth on spine perished, pale mottling to boards, wear to extremities, 8vo, number 90 of 100 copies, 4. Silversmithing. Its Principles and Practice in Small Workshops. By Dunstan Pruden, 1933, woodcut vignettes (one full-page), contemporary cream paper boards, woodcut labels 'From Dunstan Pruden / Ditchling Common, Sussex' mounted to front board, small 8vo, 5. Songs without Clothes ... by Eric Gill 1921, bookplate of 'Kilbride' (i.e. Valentine Kilbride, 1897-1982, weaver in the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, or a family member), original linen-backed boards, 8vo, 6. Geoffrey Chaucer A Study in Genius and Ethics by Fr Vincent McNabb, 1934, bookplate of Dunstan and Anne Pruden, original cloth-backed boards, slightly discoloured, 8vo, number 29 of 300 copies, 7. Diary with Dominican Calendar and XII Wood-Engravings, 1928, vignettes by David Jones and others, bound with approx. 30 blank leaves at rear of which 14 with original pencil-sketches (of a crucifix and other subjects), bookplate of Philip and Angela Lowery, original cloth-backed boards, spine worn, front board detached, 8vo, 8. Le bœuf et l'ane, et deux autres pièces pour marionnettes, 1930, marginal spotting, bookplate of Dunstan and Anne Pruden, original quarter morocco, spine chipped at head, 4to, number 109 of 120 copies, together with: 8 other books, including Eric Gill's personal Bible (Oxford: University Press, 1902, Gill's woodcut bookplate, ownership inscription 'E. E. Gill 1905', possibly one of Gill's siblings, original cloth, bound upside-down, 8vo) and 2 other St Dominic's Press titles; and 3 typed letters signed from Dunstan Pruden to 'Rodney' or his daughter Angela Lowery, one of which enclosing a carbon typescript of an article 'The Art of the Goldsmith' (also present, 6 foolscap sheets) (Qty: 20) Provenance: 1) Dunstan Pruden (1907-1974), silversmith in the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic at Ditchling from 1934. 2) Angela Lowery née Pruden (1937-2018), silversmith and daughter of Dunstan Pruden, late of Upton St Leonards, Gloucestershire. 3) Thence by descent. Evan Gill 390 (Pertinent and Impertinent, mentioning the binding of linen-backed grey paper boards only), 391 (The Common Carol Book), 8 (Songs Without Clothes; variant binding a). One other copy of Patron Saints traced in auction records, appearing in 1963.