St. Dominic's Press

Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler (1878?1951) was an English printer, writer and poet. He was an associate of both Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton, working on publications in which they had an interest.

He founded in 1915 or 1916 the St. Dominic's Press, which published important editions for the Ulysses Bookshop in High Holborn, London owned by Jacob Schwartz, to 1937. These included works of James Joyce (in fact pirate editions), but also George Bernard Shaw, John Drinkwater, Augustus John, Chesterton and John Collier.

He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1916; and was a founder with Gill and Desmond Chute in 1920 of a Catholic community of craftsment at Ditchling, Sussex, that took the name stub. You can help BambooWeb by .