David Kindersley's story of his apprenticeship with Eric Gill: half a century on from its first publication, this entirely new edition, with fresh illustrations, carries great historic interest. Fiona MacCarthy, the renowned Eric Gill biographer, characterises it in her foreword as a 'first hand account, so full of atmosphere and detail'. And Kindersley took from Gill the things he needed... a strong belief in skill, a Gill-like generosity of spirit in passing these skills on to successive generations and a tradition, still continued by his wife Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley, of the workshop as a valid way of life.