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PEPLER, Hilary Douglas Clerk. The Devil's Devices or Control versus Service, Hammersmith: The Hampshire House Workshops, 1915, 8°, FIRST EDITION, limited to 200 "proof" copies, this copy numbered "X" and signed by Douglas Pepler with his inscription on the limitation leaf, "We gave up this game as too proud," wood-enraved plates and illustrations by Eric Gill, original hessian-backed red pictorial boards. [Gill 259]
Inserted at the front is a one-page manuscript "preface" by Pepler, to R. N. Green-Armytage, dated 26th June, 1919, headed "Ditchling" and stating, "Here is a preface - no better way of beginning than that. It is the cause of my not writing to you for I have been doing nothing else but these prefaces ... I received Fr. John's amazingly beautiful verses".
Inserted at the front is a one-page manuscript "preface" by Pepler, to R. N. Green-Armytage, dated 26th June, 1919, headed "Ditchling" and stating, "Here is a preface - no better way of beginning than that. It is the cause of my not writing to you for I have been doing nothing else but these prefaces ... I received Fr. John's amazingly beautiful verses".