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After Pepler’s arrival in Ditchling, he set up his own press, the Saint Dominic’s
Press, which began producing work in 1916 with the help of Johnston and
Gill. Other craftsmen came to join them including Desmond Chute who
worked with Gill and his first apprentices Joseph and Laurie Cribb.
Soon the group had expanded to include the carpenter George Maxwell, the engraver
Philip Hagreen, the important hand-weaving revivalist Ethel Mairet, and the silversmith
Duncan Pruden amongst others. Together under the inspiration of
Gill and Pepler they founded the Guild of St. Jospeh and St. Dominic on
Ditchling Common in 1920 under the Roman Catholic spiritual guidance of
Father Vincent McNabb.
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The inscription reads:-
Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people and for the cities of our
God: but the Lord will do what is good in his sight
The inscription reads:-
actus sequitur esse "action flow from the essence" The Game, September 1921
Circular Device. Original proof of an illustration
on p. 31, volume I, no. 2 of The Game. Wood engraving
with quill through numbers 27 and 30 (to
denote the work of Edward Johnston the calligrapher on
pages 27 and 30); a printer’s dabber beneath numbers
28 and 29 (to denote the work of the printer H.D.C.
Pepler on pages 28 and 29), and a graver through the
numbers 28 and 31 (to denote Gill’s own engravings on
pages 28 and 31). Image size 3.8 cms in diameter. S.
Dominic’s Press. 1916.
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