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Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. quarter cloth over holland-backed boards, paper cover label and paper spine label. 94 pages. Illustrated by Reginald Savage. First edition limited to 200 numbered copies. Essex House Press Bibliography p. 74. Ransom 41. With two loose tissue guards. Boards and spine showing only the slightest hint of soiling, else a fine copy. Printed with three drawings by Reginald Savage under the care of C. R. Ashbee at the Essex House Press. A fine press edition of Victorian poet Thomas Hood's timeless satire about the corrupting influence of money. Miss Kilmansegg is the foolish, spoilt daughter of a banker, who insists on having an artificial limb made out of gold after she loses one of her legs in a riding accident.a truly cautionary tale. quarter cloth over holland-backed boards, paper cover label and paper spine label
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: The American edition of C. R. Ashbee's Essex House edition of the Prayer Book of Edward VII. Folio (11 x 14 inches). [14], 386, [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Printed in red and black throughout. "Authorised American edition . The designs and the type throughout are those of the English edition . and are the work of C.R. Ashbee, of the Essex House Press . The proofs were corrected by the House of M. Walter Dunne . and the printing was done at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts . The bindings are from designs drawn and executed at the bindery of M. Walter Dunn. Exclusive authority for the publication of this American edition . was issued to M. Walter Dunne in March MDCCCCIV, by the Essex House Press, of Camden, Gloucestershire, England, by the Guild of Handicraft of London, England, and by Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, printers to His Majesty King Edward VII." (colophon). Publisher's purple cloth with multicolor coat of arms on front within a gilt border, gilt spine lettering, black endpapers. Minor wear to corners and front cover with a splotch of lightening, else a very clean and sturdy copy.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Description: , 96 pages. Red, black and white frontispiece. Printed in "Prayer Book" type in red and black. Frontispiece cut by W.H. Hooper. Printed at Essex House, Campden, Gloucestershire., pages unopened Limited edition, One of 200 copies, number 96 , slight wear to edges, some pages uncut, book in very good condition , quarter leather and marbled paper on board. Tall octavo Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Shelly, Percy Bysshe. PROMETHEUS UNBOUND, A LYRICAL DRAMA. Edward Arnold, (Strand, UK, 1904.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Description: small 4to. later quarter leather over black cloth, leather cover label with gilt. (iv), 96 pages. Printed by C.R. Ashbee at The Essex House Press, Campden, Gloustershire, in an edition limited to 200 copies on hand-made Batchelor paper with a special watermark; type hand-set in 18-point Prayer Book, black and red, a variation of the 12-point Endeavour designed by Ashbee (Ransom p.268). Rebound in later quarter leather over black cloth boards. A fine copy, both externally and internally. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Ashbee, cut by W. Hooper. The Essex House Press became (1898-1909) one of the industries of the Guild of Handicraft founded by Ashbee in 1887, and printed its books on two Albion presses previously used by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, manned by his former employees. later quarter leather over black cloth, leather cover label with gilt
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. (14) 386 (1)pp. Original purple cloth with with beveled edges and intricate four color design of a miter drawn and executed at the bindery of M. Walter Dunne with decorative gilt borders, gilt ruling and lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Blue silk moiré endpapers with lion imprints. Foredge uncut. Frontispiece woodcut with red lettering. Title page with elaborate woodcut border red lettered rubric. Eight pages of table of content, each with pictorial woodcut, decorative border and red lettered rubric and page indicators for respective contents. Beautifully illustrated with historiated headpieces and initials. Illustrated tables for proper lessons, psalms on certain days and calendar in red and black. Two full page woodcuts on pages 350 and 351. Printed in red and black throughout. The authorized American edition of the Prayer-Book of King Edward VII. The designs and type throughout are those of the English edition published by Royal warrant, and are the work of C.R. Ashbee of the Essex House Press. R. Catterson-Smith assisted in the preparation of a few of the blocks which were cut in England by W.H. Hooper and Clemence Housman. The proofs were corrected by the house of M. Walter Dunne under the direct supervision of Angus Frederick Mackay. Asides of the binding this edition distinguishes itself from the limited edition of 1892, which is bound in decorative gilt-stamped vellum, in that the text is not girded with decorative floral borders. Binding with light wear along edges, light fraying at head and tail of sunned spine. Some dark staining at lower right corner of front cover retaining purple color. Two small chips at upper parts of front endpaper. Inked inscription on first front free endpaper. Starting after first front free endpaper. Water staining at upper right border and foredge diminishing rapidly going through page 90. Light age toning along edges of block. Binding in overall good+, interior in good+ to very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 43 of 200 (220) copies printed in red and black by C.R.Ashbee in his `Prayer Book' type on Batchelor handmade paper. Woodcut frontispiece by C.R.Ashbee. Limp vellum with green silk ties, lettered in gilt on spine, edges uncut. Covers a little splayed and handled. Neat ownership inscription. A very good copy. Critics have found little good to say about Ashbee's art-nouveau typefaces known as `Endeavour' and `Prayer Book''. However, this large dark letter looks well here, split by long and short lines of verse on the big page and by red used for notes and characters.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Ashbee, C.R.. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. M. Walter Dunne, New York, 1904.
Price: US$594.00 + shipping
Description: folio. Bound in full red leather, black leather gilt cover title label, leather pastedowns and endpapers, in black cloth slipcase. (xvi), 386, (2) pages with a laid in supplement of viii pages. and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David; Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches (of King Edward VII.). First North American edition published with the express permission of the Essex House Press and printed in America by the Plimpton Press. (see Ashbee p.73). In a lovely professional rebinding in full red leather. Minor mildew spotting to the final few leaves not affecting the text. Very minor moisture stain only affecting the first two blanks of the textblock. A lovely copy. Partially printed in the Endeavour type (as well as in the great primer type) specially designed for this book by Ashbee and also known as the Prayer Book type. Illustrated throughout with designs by Ashbee. A fine production printed in red and black throughout. Bound in full red leather, black leather gilt cover title label, leather pastedowns and endpapers, in black cloth slipcase
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Description: Large 4to, pp. [2 (blank)], [14], 386, [2 (colophon, blank)], with loosely inserted Supplement showing Variants in the Prayer Book of the American Church (pp. viii, uncut); printed in red and black throughout with numerous historiated woodcut borders and initials; small stain to lower margin of first leaves, otherwise clean throughout; in the publisher's gilt purple cloth, arms of Canterbury, Westminster and London blocked in gilt and colour to upper board, top-edge gilt, others uncut, glazed blue endpapers embossed with lions rampant; spine very slightly sunned, but an excellent copy.Authorised American edition of the Essex House Press Book of Common Prayer, published in celebration of the accession of Edward VII. The title is framed within scenes of London and Westminster and faced by a woodcut of Edward VII enthroned on the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, surrounded by portraits his six predecessors of the same name (with Edward IV standing in front of Caxton's press, one of the notable developments of his reign). The following pages are littered with woodcuts and initials, including not only Biblical scenes but also portraits of British monarchs, a procession of notable figures in English history (from St Alban to the nineteenth century), and a group of figures consulting books in a chained library. The Prayer Book of Edward VII, designed by C.R. Ashbee of the Essex House Press, was first printed in England and here reprinted despite its at-times heavily Anglocentric illustrations in the United States. A loosely inserted Supplement showing Variants from the Prayer Book of the Church of England in the Prayer Book of the American Church includes a large initial with a portrait of Theodore Roosev elt. Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 96 pages. Folio, 29.5 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 67 of 200 of 220 (20 printed on vellum). Frontispiece by C.R. Ashbee with text printed in red and black in Endeavour type. Wide text margins, bright copy, top front tie lacking, backstrip lettered in gilt. Orig. full limp vellum with yapp edges. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine 1/4 leather and beveled, oak wood boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text in one compartment. A folio measuring 14 by 10 1/2 inches with hand wrought metal clasps on the front board (the rear clasps are missing from the rear board). The absence of any wear to the leather or any date on the spine strongly suggests a more recent rebind of the pigskin covered spine. The contents are extremely clean and free of soiling. The print is in black and red with the edges untrimmed. A limited edition of only 400 copies of which this copy is identified as number 179. 387 pages of text including the colophon. Illustrated throughout with wood block designs by C. R. Ashbee. This volume comes with "A Key To The Principal Decorations In The Prayer Book of King Edward VII, as Designed and Carried Out by D. R. Ashbee." laid-in, published by The Cambridge Society of New York and Montreal, M. Walter Dunne, President, which is a small quarto in wraps 14 pages with the rear cover loose and shallow chipping around the edges of the front cover.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto; in white buckram lettered in gilt to the spine; 4 preliminary leaves; [iii]-lvi, 59, [1] page, with illustrations including map; the edition limited to 75 copies issued on the Essex House paper, of which this is number 45; there is a previous owner bookplate on the upper pastedown; the spine is a bit darkened.~~Housed in a red cloth drop-back box with green morocco label to the spine; there are a couple of light stains to the box. Very Good binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Description: 60 pp. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. 8vo, publisher's white buckram, gilt-lettered at the spine. First edition; No. 11 of only 75 copies issued on Essex House paper. A very attractive copy: the spine is very slightly tanned and with some very minor soiling to the cloth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2254.46 + shipping
Description: First Essex House Press edition, number 119 of 150 copies only, printed on vellum and hand illuminated. Goldsmith's poem, first published in 1770, is a pastoral elegy and political polemic which depicts an idealised, and supposedly lost, rural lifestyle. It is presented here as the twelfth work in the Essex House Press Great Poems Series. The Essex House Press was founded by Charles Robert Ashbee and Laurence Hodson following the closure of William Morris's Kelmscott Press in 1897 and "came from the heart of the arts and crafts movement" (Franklin, p. 64). Ashbee bought the Kelmscott Press's Albion printing presses after William Morris's death, and employed one of the Kelmscott compositors, Thomas Binning. In 1902 "a bindery was established in the Guild, under the direction of Annie Power, who had been a student of Douglas Cockerell" (Crawford, p. 400). Power provided the illuminated letters for this work, alongside Florence Kingsford Cockerell (1871-1949), one of the leading book illuminators of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, who studied calligraphy under Edward Johnston and predominantly worked for the Ashendene Press. Franklin, p. 237; Ransom, Essex House Press 51. Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist, 2005; John Mansfield Thomson, Farewell Colonialism: The New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-07, 1998. Octavo. Original vellum, spine lettered in gilt, rose and "Soul is Form" blind-stamped to front cover. Printed in Caslon type. Hand-coloured frontispiece and colophon vignette with tissue guards, by Charles Robert Ashbee, illuminated letters in gilt, red, blue, and green by Florence Kingsford Cockerell and Anastasia Power. Neat familial ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Covers starting to bow, as often, light sporadic foxing, a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2703.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 94pp. One of 200 copies. This copy accompanied by one of Savage's original engravings for the book: the scene on p. 24 of the titular heroine tumbling from her spooked steed. A delight printing by C. R. Ashbee, who here applies his talents to the humorous longform poem by Hood. Bound in quarter buckram with blue paper-covered boards, with paper labels to upper cover and to spine. Some exterior soiling, minor chips to spine label, corners sparsely rubbed. Engraving is matted. A near fine selection.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.