THE DECORATIVE PAINTINGS IN CHRIST'S HOSPITAL CHAPEL 1913 - 1923 by Macklin, W. R. and H. A. Rigby - 1925

(Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1925).. First edition. Small oblong 4to. (20) pp. Original cloth backed printed boards. Title vignette and 5 illustrations after paintings by Frank Brangwyn. Covers slightly bowed, a few light marks, else a very good copy. Taylor & Sewell, A134.

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1925. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Publisher's original quarter cream-coloured cloth over printed blue paper-covered boards. Spine darkened & spotted. Endpapers darkened. With five full-page b&w illustrations. Based on Frank Brangwyn's paintings at Christ's Hospital Chapel. . Very Good. Boards. 1925.

[Privately Printed, St. Dominic's Press, Ditchling,, 1925]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with title-vignette and 5 full-page illustrations after paintings by Brangwyn in the text; original blue boards blocked and lettered in black, white cloth back, uncut, a near fine copy. Printed at St. Dominic's Press by H.D.C. Pepler. Very scarce. Taylor & Sewell A134

Ditchling: Printed for Christ’s Hospital by H. Pepler at St. Dominic’s Press, 1925. Five illustrations after Frank Brangwyn’s paintings in Christ’s Hospital. Oblong 4to., original white linen spine with printed blue paper covered boards with illustration on upper cover, a superb copy. ||Frank Brangwyn was a long time inhabitant of Ditchling and paintings and drawings of local people were often incorporated into his work. This book begins with “There is no finer of more representative example of the work of Frank Brangwyn than the sixteen pictures in Christ’s Hospital...and nor is there anywhere a decorative scheme more grandly planned”. The pictures are immense and beautiful, these illustrations giving a taster of the real thing.|Taylor & Sewell A134

Printed at St Dominic's Press, Ditchling, by H.D.C. Pepler, 1925, 1st edition. White cloth spine, blue paper covered boards with black lettering and a small illustration of a head to the front board. Oblong format, 8.25ins x 10.5ins,unpaginated. Comprises title page, 6pp text, sub title followed by 5 pages of drawings of the murals each faced by a page of text, colophon. Free endpapers browned. Previous owners name to top of blank page between the endpaper and the title page. White spine a bit browned, overall VG.