Drinking Songs and Other Songs by W.R. Titterton and C.K. Chesterton (Association Copy)

Author: Titterton, W.R. & Chesterton, C.K
Title: Drinking Songs and Other Songs
Publisher: Cecil Palmer
Date: 1928
Place: London & Edinburgh
Dimensions: 8vo. 22.5cm x 15cm

xi + 64pp.
Signed, limited edition, inscribed association copy.

Red cloth boards, gilt titles to top board and spine. T.E.G. Spine sunned.
Number 17 of 100 copies of the Signed Edition, limited and signed to the limitation page. Scattered foxing throughout, else VG.

Association copy, inscribed by the author to Robert Blatchford to the second blank prelim page.
The author was a close friend and biographer of G.K. Chesterton, who introduces the present work with a short essay on the merits of song and revelry as set against the seriousness of discussions he and the author have had about topics like "Fabianism, The Higher Criticism or The Sex Problem in modern fiction." It is on another one of these Serious Matters - namely the importance and legitimacy of religion - that Chesterton would have a spirited public debate with Robert Blatchford - the editor of Clarion who had written a rationalist Credo, entitled God and My Neighbour, and to whom the present volume is fondly inscribed. The core of Chesterton's rebukes appear in the first volume of his Collected Works (1986, San Francisco: Ignatius) under the heading The Blatchford Controversies.