In the summer of 2012, author and fine-press impresario Henry Wessells commissioned Ernest Hilbert to write an anti-war poem for a then-untitled fine-press art book to be issued as the second in a series by Temporary Culture, Wessell's own press, which specializes in collectible science fiction and art books. The completed book, "Against the Art of War", includes three aquatint etchings by Judith Clute, a Canadian artist resident in London. The finished book, issued in February, 2013, was letterpress printed by David Wolfe of Portland, Maine, and hand-bound in paste paper boards, in an edition of 26 lettered copies, signed by the authors and the artist, and five numbered copies reserved for artist, authors, and printer.