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Lying on my desk as I write is a modest little hardback volume entitled Change: The Beginning of a Chapter in 12 Volumes , edited by John Hilton & Joseph Thorp. It was printed and published in January 1919 at The Decoy Press, Plaistow, London. Herbert Rooke, The Torch The appearance of the word Plaistow in the address is enough to suggest that this booklet has something to do with the Curwen Press, whose printing works was in Plaistow. And indeed on page 122 of Joanna Selborne�s British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940 a footnote tells us that, �The Decoy Press, Plaistow, was Thorp�s publishing imprint only, not a printing press, used sometimes by the Curwen Press when it was impolitic to use their own imprint.� This was one of those times, for Change was a radical publication, calling for a new post-war order based on socialist and spiritual values. Eric Gill, The Decoy This idealistic publication did not find a ready market�of the announced 12 volumes, only two appeared