Riches: Welfare Handbook No. 3
Ditchling: St. Dominic’s Press, 1919. 16mo, plain typographic sewn pamphlet, superfine paper, 24pp. Limited issue, unnumbered. Wrappers and pages show slight rippling and toning. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The third volume in the Welfare Handbook series by St. Dominic’s Press, printed and designed by Eric Gill. ‘Being extracts from The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as translated from the Latin Vulgate by the English College at Rheims, A.D. 1582.’ This miniature publication gathers all of the major quotations from the New Testament on the subject of wealth and riches, and sold for the price of one shilling. With a linocut drawing of Christ rebuking the moneychangers by Gill, prefacing the title page. A scarce pamphlet and piece of ephemera from St. Dominic’s Press, the short lived Catholic artisanal guild and letterpress founded in Gill’s native Sussex. A nearly fine copy. Near Fine.
Price: $250.00