Roy Lewis (1913 – 1996) was an English journalist and small-press printer. For ten years in the 1950s, he was Washington correspondent for The Economist and then a feature writer on The Times. In 1957, while still working as a journalist, he set up the Keepsake Press, a private printer of limited editions in Ravenscourt Square, Hammersmith, London. The Death of God, subtitled “a Curious Narrative Dream Dreamed By Roy Lewis in the Year MCMXLIII When He Was Living in Dibrugarh in Assam and on Waking Recollected and Written Down By Him” was published by the Keepsake Press in 1959. The book is hand-set in a Gothick typeface (described in the book as’a reverent type’), with initial capitals cut in lino by Roy Lewis’s daughter Elizabeth. The publication, limited to 60 copies, was dedicated to Gordon Symes, who liked the fantasy when he first read it in India. This is a rare and very collectable publication. Approximately 270 x 205mm (10.5 x 8in); the book has just 16 pages. And please follow me, as I regularly add other publications from my collection.
