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8vo. 62, (1)pp. Handset in 'Subiaco' type and printed in black and red on Batchelor's hand-made 'Hammer and Anvil' paper. Initials drawn by hand in blue by Graily Hewitt.. Full limp vellum, spine titled in gilt. One of 150 copies on paper. A near fine copy. Housed in a custom blue slipcase. Ashendene Bibliography, No. 18.
A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.
(Ashendene Press) (Bible in English)
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1904.
Price: $1,500.00
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Folio. 230, (1)pp. Translated by W. Adlington. Printed in black and red, with initials in red and blue. Later custom full maroon morocco by Denny; spine lettered in gilt; maroon endpapers with morocco doublure; followed by marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. One of 165 copies on paper. A near fine copy. Ashendede Bibliography, No. 33.
The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse Containing The metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius Interlaced With Sundry Pleasant & Delectable Tales : With an Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupid & Psyches set out in the Fourth, Fifth, & the Sixth Bookes. ...
(Ashendene Press) Apuleius, Lucius
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1924.
Price: $1,750.00
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Folio. Two voloumes. Publisher's cloth-backed patterned paper boards, printed paper labels. One of 225 copies on Batchelor paper. Printed in red and black. Labels rubbed, cloth lightly soiled, inner hinges cracked but strong. A very good set of perhaps the most impressive productions of the Press. In a contemporary protective slipcase, lightly worn at edges. The first work to be printed in the new Ptolemy type. Ashendene Bibliography No. 36.
The First Part (and the Second Part) of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha
(Ashendene Press) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1927-1928.
Price: $3,500.00
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Folio. Full publisher's calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands; gilt device blocked onto the upper board, gilt spine titles. No. 81 of 390 copies, signed by Hornby. viii, 172pp, Bibliographical descriptions, examples of woodcuts, specimen pages of most of the books of the press. BInding lightly rubbed else a fine copy. Ashendene Bibliography, No 40. The last book of the Press.
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV - MCMXXXV
(Ashendene Press) Hornby, Charles Harry St John; Ashendene Press
Chelsea: Shelley House (Ashendene Press), 1935.
Price: $2,500.00
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Folio. One of 200 copies on paper. Quarter leather. Spine in six compartments with prominent raised bands; gilt titles; vellum boards. Printed in double column in black, red and blue, with initials in red and blue. Light rubbing at the hinges else a near fine copy. The last of the Ashendene books printed in the Subiaco type. Ashendene Bibliography, No. 35.
Spenser's Minor Poems, Containing the Shepheardes Calender, Complaints, Daphnaida, Colin Clouts, Come Home AGain, Amoretti, Hymnes, Epithalamion, Prothalamion, Sonnets, and Svndrie Other Verses
(Ashendene Press) Spenser, Edmund
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1925.
Price: $1,500.00
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Folio. viii,364pp. Printed in Ptolemy type. Publisher's full white pigskin. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt titles. One of 240 copies on paper. A fine copy. Housed in a quarter morocco drop down clamshell case by D. F. Bogardus. With the publisher's prospectus laid in. Ashendene Bibliography No. 37.
(The Peloponnesian War) Thucydides Translated into English by Benjamin Howett, M.A., Late Master of Balliol College and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
(Ashendene Press) Thucydides
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1930.
Price: $7,500.00
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8vo. xvi + 95pp + colophon. Introduction by Walter W. Seton. Original full limp vellum with silk ties. Printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with untrimmed edges.Title in gilt on the spine. Facsimile reproduction of the first four pages of the original manuscript written at Florence in the year 1496. Blue initials and main text in red and black. One of 286 copies on paper. A fine copy. Housed in a protective chemise and a slipcase of blue cloth with marbled paper sides. Ashendene Press, No. 30..
Vita Di Santa Chiara Vergine Composta Per Vgolino Verino Cittadino Florentino
(Ashendene Press) Verino, Ugolino
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1921.
Price: $750.00
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