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David Jones

Male : Poet and artist. became a Catholic 1921. Went to live with Eric Gill at Ditchling. Illustrated for the St Dominic's Press 1923-4. Engaged to Gill's daughter, Petra, they never married and he remained single after she married Denis Tegetmeier
Nationality : Anglo-Welsh Place of Birth : Brockley, Kent

Date of Birth : 1895 Date of Death : 1974 Age : 79

Education : Camberwell School of Art & Westminster School of Art
In Parenthesis (1937 Faber) - with intro by T S Eliot. Ltd Signed Edition of 70
(In) Penguin Modern Painters : David Jones (Penguin 1949)
The Anathemata : Fragments of an Attempted Writing
(1952 Faber) (1963 Chilmark)
Epoch and Artist : Selected Writings
(1959 Faber) (1964 Chilmark)
In Parenthesis
(1961 Chilmark Press, US) - with intro by T S Eliot
In Parenthesis
(1963 Faber) - 1st pb ed
The Fatigue
(1965)
The Tribune's Visitation
(1969 Fulcrum Press) - 150 signed
An Introduction to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(1972 Clover Hill Editions) - 330
Word and Image IV : Exhibition Catalogue
(1972 National Book League)
The Sleeping Lord & Other Fragments
(1974 Faber £2.95) - 150 signed
The Kensington Mass
(1975 Agenda Editions) - Edited by Rene Hague
Use and Sign
(1975)
Letters to Vernon Watkins
(1976 Univ of Wales Press) - Edited by Ruth Pryor
The Dying Gaul & Other Writings
(1978 Faber) - Edited by Harman Grisewood
Introducing David Jones : A Selection of His Writings
(1980 Faber) - ed by John Matthias
Dai Greatcoat : A Self-Portrait in His Letters
(1980 Faber) - ed by Rene Hague
The Painted Inscriptions of David Jones
(1980 Gordon Fraser) by Nicolette Gray
The Roman Quarry & Other Sequences
(1981 Agenda) (1982 Sheap Meadow, US)
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G C BATEMAN : A Countryman's Calendar
(1927 St Dominic's Press)
R John BEEDHAM : Wood Engraving
(1920 St Dominic's Press, Ditchling)
- intro & appendix by Eric Gill
(1929 St Dominic's Press. 2nd Ed) - et al
R CAMPBELL : The Gum Trees
(nd. 1930 Faber Ariel Poem 30)
Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(1929 Cleverdon)
F COVENTRY : The History of Pompey the Little
(1926 Golden Cockerel Press)
T S ELIOT : The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
(1954 Faber Ariel Poem)
E FARJEON : The Town Child's Alphabet
(1924 Poetry Bookshop)
Eric GILL & H PEPLER : In Petra - Being a Sequel of Nisi Dominus
(1923 St Dominic's Press)
H MUNRO : The Winter Solstice
(1928 Faber Ariel Poem)
H PEPLER : Libellus Lapidum
(1924 St Dominic's Press)
Pertinent and Impertinent
(1926 St Dominic's Press)
Kathleen RAINE : Solitary Perfectionist
(1974 Golgoncoz Press)
W H SHEWRING : Hermia and Some Other Poems
(1930 St Dominic's Press)
Jonathan SWIFT : Gulliver's Travels
(1925 Golden Cockerel Press)
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The Book of Jonah
(1926 Golden Cockerel Press) - 175
Offered in 1991 for £1250
Llyfr y Pregeth-Wr
(Ecclesiastes) (1927 Gregynog Press)
The Chester Play of the Deluge
(1927 Golden Cockerel Press)
Offered in 1999 for £250

PERIODICALS
The Game
(St Dominic's Press), The Woodcut, and many others

Pictures
"Vexilla Regis" & "Flora in Calix-Light"
(Kettle's Yard, Cambridge)

READING
Robin Ironside : David Jones
(1949 Penguin Modern Painters)
David Blamires : David Jones, Artist & Writer
(1971 Manchester Univ Press)
Jeremy Hooker : David Jones - An Exploratory Study of the Writings
(1975)
Rene Hague : A Commentary on the Anathemata of David Jones
(1977 Skelton)
Samuel Rees : David Jones - An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Research
(1977)
(Ed) Rene Hague : Dai Greatcoat - A Self Portrait of David Jones in His Letters (1980 Faber)
William Blissett : the Long Conversation - A Memoir of David Jones
(1981 OUP)
Paul Hills : David Jones
(1981 Tate Gallery)
Nicolette Gray : The Painted Inscriptions of David Jones
(1981 Fraser)
Douglas Cleverdon : The Engravings of David Jones
(1981 Clover Hill Editions) - 260 of 370
(Ed) Anthony Hyne : David Jones - A Fusilier at the Front (1995 Seren £14.95)
Keith Alldritt : David Jones - A Life
(2004 Constable £18.99)

Related Writers

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Golden Cockerel Press
Gregynog Press
Jonathan Swift


See also

Thomas Stearns Eliot
Eleanor Farjeon
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill
St Dominic's Press