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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 58 [1] pp. A few text illustrations. 8vo, publisher's boards with printed paper labels on front cover and spine. First edition; one of 250 copies (plus one on vellum); this copy unnumbered. Very slight tanning to the endsheets; vertical dampstain along the spine with shallow chipping at its extremities; light soiling to boards. Inscribed, but not signed, "with the author's compliments," 1906.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 58 [1] pp. A few text illustrations. 8vo, publisher's boards with printed paper labels on front cover and spine. First edition; No. 6 of 250 copies (plus one on vellum). Labels a little tanned; slight rubbing to boards. Feb. 1907 ink gift inscription from [Mrs.] Elizabeth Ashbee on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Original publisher's light brown paper covered boards with printed paper labels on cover and spine. Number 88 (in pencil) of 250 numbered copies. Printed in "Endeavour" type on handmade paper, with a couple vignette woodcut illustrations designed by Ashbee. Boards a bit soiled, spine shows wear, internally near fine.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
ASHBEE, C. R.. Echoes From the City of the Sun. Essex House Press, London, 1905.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 58 p. 251 copies. Six b&w woodcut illustrations and six examples of music. Grey paper covered boards. Cream labels with black print. Spine label chipped at top without affecting letters. Pencil notes front endpapers. Charles Robert Ashbee (1863 - 1942) was an English designer and entrepreneur who was a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement. He set up the Essex House Press after William Morris's Kelmscott Press closed in 1897, taking on many of the displaced printers and craftsmen. Between 1898 and 1910 the Essex House Press produced more than 70 titles, including this volume of Ashbee's own poetry.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Ashbee, C. R.. Echoes from the City of the Sun, Being Poems and Songs. Essex House Press, 1905.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, original paper covered boards, paper labels to upper cover and spine. 23.5 x 18cm. 58pp, [1]. Woodcut illustrations and music in text. Number 30 of an edition of 250 copies. Pasted onto the free front end-paper a label signed by the author, C. R. Ashbee. A little rubbing and marks of wear to the boards. Inside contents clean and unmarked.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Essex House Press, London, 1905. Limited edition of 251, this being no 20. Book condition: very good. Grey boards lightly soiled. Paper labels to spine and front. Wood engraved illustrations, printer's device at end. The book has only been partly opened with most pages still uncut at upper edge. Bookplate of Ken Tomlinson to front pastedown. No jacket. This volume came from the collection of private press books built up by the Tomkinson family. Michael Tomkinson (1841 - 1921) established Tomkinson Carpets in Kidderminster and was a major collector of books and Japanese antiquities. Although some of his collection was sold after his death his son, Geoffrey (1881 - 1963), continued and grew the private press collection and published 'A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses Public and Private in Great Britain and Ireland' (1928). When Geoffrey died in 1963 his son Kenneth (1918 - 1985) continued to add to two generations of Tomkinson family private press books. This collection was recently broken up and sold. Charles Robert Ashbee (1863 - 1942) was an English designer and a prime mover in the Arts and Crafts movement. Ashbee set up the Essex House Press after William Morris's Kelmscott Press closed in 1897. He took on many of the printers and craftsman who had been working at Kelmscott Press. Ashbee designed two type faces for Essex House (Endeavour and Prayer Book) both of which were based upon Morris's Golden Type. This volume is printed using Endeavour and includes six songs together with their melodies (the melodies being mainly 17th or 18th century). A rare and intriguing book with an interesting provenance.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom