The Devil’s Devices, or, Control versus Service

1915

Special Collections BT738 PD39 1915

London: Hampshire House Workshops

On 4 August 1904, Gill married Ethel (later Mary) Moore in Chichester. In 1905, they moved to Hammersmith and soaked up the influences of the Arts and Craft movement, begun by William Morris and his Kelmscott Press, the earlier Chiswick Press, and the then active Emery Walker and T.J. Cobden-Sanderson of the Doves Press. One key figure Gill met was Harry (later Hilary) Douglas Clark Pepler, a printer and writer, who was also a social worker for the London County Council. In 1915 Pepler, who had a strong dislike for cheap and shoddy work, produced his The Devil’s Devices, or Control versus Service, which contains some of the earliest examples of Gill’s wood engravings: the ‘Calvary’ triangular device, and ‘The Symbol of Christ Crucified’.