Burkitt, F. Crawford. The Hymn of Bardaisan. London: Edward Arnold, 37 Bedford Street, Strand, Printed at the Essex House Press, MDCCCXCIX [1899], 1899.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover. 24mo (6" x 4.25"), gray paper over boards, white paper title stamps on front cover and spine. 30 pp. CONDITION: Good, small losses to head, foot, and edges of spine, moderate wear to extremities. Limited to 300 copies. From the printer's note: "this is the second book printed at the Essex House Press, which was founded by Laurence Hodson and C.R. Ashbee, in the hope to keep living the traditions of good printing that William Morris had revived."

Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.

[ESSEX HOUSE PRESS]; BARDAISAN.. The Hymn. rendered into English by F. Crawford Burkitt.. London Press of the Guild of Handicraft.under the supervision of C.R. Ashbee, 1899.

Price: US$272.25 + shipping

Description: One of 300 copies; 12mo; printed in black & red, woodcut illustration and device; publisher's powder blue boards with printed title label to spine and upper cover, spine slightly toned, overall very good. The second book to be produced by the Essex House Press, published by Edward Arnold. Ransom 3.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

[Essex House Press]. BARDAISAN. The Hymn of Bardaisan, rendered into English by F. Crawford Burkitt. Printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft, Limited . for Edward Arnold [Essex House Press], London, 1899.

Price: US$334.60 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London, Printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft, Limited . for Edward Arnold [Essex House Press], 1899. Sextodecimo, 32 pages, printed in red and black, with woodcut printer's device and large historiated initial. Original grey-blue papered boards with printed paper title-labels to the spine and front cover; edges uncut; covers slightly tanned and marked; tiny patch of surface loss to the spine; endpapers lightly discoloured; an excellent copy. The second publication of the Essex House Press of Laurence Hodson and C.R. Ashbee, and one of only 300 copies. The 'Hymn of the Pearl' or 'Hymn of the Soul' is a Syriac text found in the apocryphal 'Acts of Thomas', sometimes attributed to the Assyrian Gnostic writer Bardaisan. 'A Bibliography of the Essex House Press', page 5.

Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Burkitt, F. Crawford. [Binding, Fine- Douglas Cockerell] The Hymn of Bardaisan. Essex House Press, London, 1899.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 12mo. Early Arts & Crafts style binding (1902) by Douglas Cockerell with his binding signature in rear dentelle, "19 DC 02." Full polished calf with leaf motif stamped in front and back near the spine forming a darker brown. AEG. The second book of the press, with compositors and a pressman coming over from the Kelmscott Press. Binding somewhat rubbed at spine and corners. An early example of a sparing, but distinctively Arts and Crafts binding by the famous English bookbinder, Douglas Cockerell.

Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.