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Buy this book on-line ANDERSON**, GWYNETH: : A TIME TO SPEAK: Poems in Pamphlet VI.[Author SIGNED copy.]**UK.KENT,THE HAND AND FLOWER PRESS,1951. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,24mo wraps,author SIGNED,dated and warmly dedicated,1st edn,inscrptn with an ink hand-written,signed on genuine (BBC watermark) BBC headed-notepaper,1pp signed letter to dedicatee laid in,along with a 2nd Class French Metro train ticket! VG+. Dedication to title-page reads: "April 1955.Helena Hughes, With all good wishes for the future from Gwyneth Anderson". The BBC headed-notepaper (an ink line crossed over address) reads as follows:"120 Adelaide Rd,London,NW(?)3.I thought you might like to have this as you know and like Ridworths'(?) poetry.There is much I'd like to alter, at this date, but that always the way.Gwyneth." Pink yapped card wraps lightly grubbed;spine/backstrip slightly sunned with rust spots and rusty but solid staples.Title design on upper wrap and hand and rose publisher colophon to rear wrap by Bert Pugh.Minimal shelf- wear and creasing to all edges.Contents bright,tight and clean apart from rust spots to middle pages.Paginated 167-196. Printed at The Ditchling Press,Sussex on Arnold & Foster mould-made rag paper.
Poems in Pamphlet appeared monthly,in identical format and each pamphlet is devoted to the work of a writer hitherto not published in book form in England.The Ditchling Press was originally St Dominic's Press founded in 1916,by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler.It was set up in a disused stable in Ditchling,using a 100 year old Stanhope handpress,a folio Albion press and two founts of Caslon Old face type.Pepler favoured the earliest printing methods used in Europe,though his partner Cyril Costick introduced some more modern techniques later.As the use of a handpress was physically tiring and could become monotonous,there were seldom more than 500 copies of any book produced.The paper used for virtually all the publications was handmade,and was produced by the mill of Joseph Batchelor & Son Ltd.,at Little Chart,Kent.The St Dominic's Press published not only books,but also pamphlets,broadsheets,posters and miscellaneous items such as calendars and Christmas cards.A number of important artists and craftsmen worked for the press,most notably Eric Gill, David Jones, Desmond Chute, Philip Hargreen and Mary Dudley Short.In 1936 Pepler retired.His partner Cyril Costick,his son Mark and son-in-law Gerard Falkner took over.New machinery was purchased and the business was moved to Ditchling village and renamed The Ditchling Press.
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