- I N C L I N E
- P R E S S
"It's quite plausible y' know, that if one is not sufficiently circumspect, the necessary virtues of life could be as deadly, or as much pleasure, as the vices."
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- being something less than a footnote to limited edition publishing in the nineteen thirties, with newly commissioned illustrations by Romey Brough.
- Stanley Scott
wouldn't have been surprised to find a copy of
The Seven
Deadly Virtues
on a bookshop shelf. After all, he himself owned a copy
of this collection of quotations illustrated by Denis
Tegetmeier with an introductory essay by his
father-in-law Eric Gill. What did surprise him was that
this copy was not only bound differently than the copy he
owned, but even stranger, it had the same number: seven.
What follows is Scott's determined attempt, almost twenty
years after the book was published, to get to the bottom
of this bit of publishing sculduggery. Any fellow
bibliophile will sympathise with his curiousity, and yet,
as letter follows letter, one begins to wonder: does this
way madness lie?
- 150 copies were printed in Monotype Caslon with a little Imprint to aid the display, on Zerkall mould-made paper. The marbled paper used in the binding was made by Victorial Hall.