Hampshire House Workshops - The Devil's Devices, by Douglas Pepler

The Devil's Devices or, Control versus Service. By Douglas Pepler. With woodcuts by Eric Gill. 8vo, pp.viii,126 + ad, Published at The Hampshire House Workshops, Hammersmith, London, 1815.

[One of 1,300 standard copies.] 12 illustrations, 11 being from wood-engravings by Eric Gill. Canvas-backed pictorial red paper boards, lettered up the spine. Half-title just slightly yellowed. A near fine copy.

First edition. Although printed at the Westminster Press, this book is always associated with Saint Dominic's Press as being the first joint production of Gill and Pepler. A prospectus describes it as being 'a sociological satire cotaining an account of a cinema entertainment in Satan's Circuit and an appreciation of No.27, an English working man.'