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Price: US$173.16 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A small but attactive collection, comprising 9 prospectuses and lists, some with woodcut initials, some with press-marks, printed in black or red and black in Caslon Old Face or C.R. Ashbee's `Endeavour' type, all on hand-made paper, some specially watermarked. In fine or near fine condition. Present are: (1) Shelley's Adonais (Jauary 1900), (2) The Poems of Shakespeare (Apr. 1900), (3) Walt Whitman's Hymn on the Death of Lincoln (March 1901), (4) A Coronation Masque Entitled The Masque of the Edwards (May 1902), (5) Chaucer's The Flower and the Leaf (Oct. 1902), Much information is found in the prospectuses that is not elsewhere to be found.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
C.R.Ashbee. The Masque of the Edwards of England. Edward Arnold, London, 1902.
Price: US$237.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A masque of the Edwards of England written by C.R.Ashbee as a pageant for the time of the Coronation of Edward VII, 1902. Printed under Ashbees care at the press of The Guild of Handicraft at Essex House. The drawings by Edith Harwood are printed in six colours from stones by Sprague & Co. Ex library with discreet stamps. Damp stain to the covers top edge but barely discernable to the pages.
Seller: Wadard Books PBFA, Farningham, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$288.60 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Oblong folio. 45, [3] p : incl. col. illus., col. plates ; 29 x 41 cm. Original publisher's beige textured cloth lettered black on front cover with Essex House vignette Full pages colour illustrations by Edith Harwood of the Pageants of the Kings. Number 45 of 300 numbered copies. Faint bowing to covers as usual. Fine copy About fine.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This valuable and rare book is missing a few plates, but we do not have a copy to compare to tell you which ones. Print dealers would probably LOVE to harvest these plates and sell them as framable art. If you will contact me, I can send you photos of each page to show you which ones we DO have. This book includes 11 full page color plates. There are 18 full pages of text, two which have b/w illustrations. Nearly all the pages have separated from the spine. Original linen cloth hardback covers are present. By Essex House Press. Published in England by Edward Arnold, 37 Bedford Street, Strand; and in America by Samuel Buckley & Co., 100 William St. New York. This is copy # 20 of only 300 paper copies, 20 on vellum. This one is paper. Rare and valuable. (BR) Box 228
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.
C R Ashbee. The Masque of the Edwards of England A Coronation Pageant. Edward Arnold, London, 1902.
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Description: A limited edition copy of this courtly masque written in the early twentieth century to honour King Edward VII. This masque follows the history of the 'Edwards' of England. It features Edward the Confessor, the Lawgiver, The Second, The King of Chivalry, The Fourth, The Child King, The Founder and the King (VII). This pageant was written especially for the coronation of King Edward VII and was finished in the week of the ceremony. Printed at the Guild of Handicraft Press at Essex House. Illustrated throughout by Edith Harwood. Limited edition, number 55 of 300. Charles Robert Ashbee was an English architect and designer. He was a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement. In a full cloth binding with pictorial boards. Externally, generally smart. Tidemarks to the bottom of the front and rear boards, resulting in a small amount of cockling to the tail of several pages but no permanent tidemarks. Bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional spots. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$543.97 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-printed raw linen over boards. Some wear to spine, with panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Some stainging also evident to boards. Tissue guards to plates. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Limited edition: No. 172/300.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 45 pages; Description: 45, [3] p : incl. col. illus., col. plates ; 29 x 41 cm. Subjects: English drama - Masques and mystery plays - Works. From the colophon: 'Written by C.R.Ashbee as a pageant for the time of the crowning of the king [Edward VII], and printed.at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft at Essex House. The drawings.are by Edith Harwood.in part .touched by hand'. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: #115 OF 300 PAPER COPIES. ALL TISSUE GUARDS ARE PRESENT. THERE IS A 3" STAIN ON THE FRONT COVER BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER THAT IS VERY FAINT AND ALMOST THE SAME COLOR AS THE CLOTH. A BIT OF CORNER WEAR. THERE IS SOME RIPPLE TO THE PAGES. DESPITE THE FLAWS AN ATTRACTIVE AND PRESENTABLE COPY INSIDE AND OUT. DOMESTIC SHIPPING AT THE STANDARD SINGLE VOLUME RATE. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING TO BE DETERMINED. Size: OBLONG FOLIO
Seller: BRIER ROSE BOOKS, TEANECK, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$604.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-printed raw linen over boards. Some wear to spine, with panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Some stainging also evident to boards. Tissue guards to plates. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Limited edition: No. 172/300.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 45 pages; Description: 45, [3] p : incl. col. illus., col. plates ; 29 x 41 cm. Subjects: English drama - Masques and mystery plays - Works. From the colophon: 'Written by C.R.Ashbee as a pageant for the time of the crowning of the king [Edward VII], and printed.at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft at Essex House. The drawings.are by Edith Harwood.in part .touched by hand'. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Edith Harwood. Oblong folio. Original cloth with stamped design. Two small glue marks on the front pastedown, where a bookplate was presumably affixed, else fine. One of 300 numbered copies on paper. Laid in is a single leaf folded announcing the Essex House Bindery. A beautiful book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$5700.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong folio. Rebound by Jan Sobota in illustrated, four-color vellum, in marbled paper-covered boards slipcase. 45, [3] pages. Limited to 320 copies, of whicht his is one of 300 numbered copies printed on paper. Essex House Press Bibliography, page 71. This particular copy has been rebound by Jan Sobota in full vellum with various inlays featuring the crowned King Edward VIII. The drawings are by Edith Harwood, and have been in part printed from stones by Messrs. Sprague & Co., and in part touched by hand.The Book is folio, printed in the 'Endeavour' type., on grey O.W. paper, L3 3s. The subjects of the hand-colored illustrations respectively, are: 1) The Prolocutor and the veiled centuries flinging the seed into the lap of the little Twentieth Century. 2) The Crowning of Edward the Confessor. 3) The Crowning of Edward the First. 4) The Crowning of Edward the Second. 5) The Crowning of Edward the Third. 6) The Crowning of Edward the Fourth. 7) The Crowning of Edward the Fifth. 8) The Crowning of Edward the Sixth. 9) The Crowning of Edward the Seventh. Written by C.R.Ashbee as a pageant for the time of the crowning of the king [Edward VII], and printed.at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft at Essex House. Rebound by Jan Sobota in illustrated, four-color vellum, in marbled paper-covered boards slipcase
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$7475.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong folio. 49pp. From an edition of 300 copies, this is one of twenty printed on vellum. Illustrated with ten lithographs by Edith Harwood, eight of which are double-page and show the coronation processions of the eight Edwards. As a deluxe copy, the illustrations are hand-painted by Harwood in watercolor and often graced with gold leaf, which particularly emphasizes the grandeur of the proceedings and highlights the crowns and garments, as if the pages themselves were bejeweled. The result is a sumptuous and charming panorama of English history. Text is printed in red and black. Bound in buckram-covered boards. Some splitting between text block and rear paste-down, mild discoloration to upper board, else a near fine copy, with all the protective tissues present.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.