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Price: US$4983.29 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1932 (first thus). Tall quarto, [ii] (title leaf, verso blank), 182 pages printed in red and black Subiaco type, with woodcut initials printed in green and blue, and a large woodcut printer's device printed in red on the colophon. Original overlapping orange vellum by W.H. Smith & Son, lettered in gilt on the spine, with silk ribbon ties; all edges uncut; vellum slightly rubbed at the edges; essentially a fine copy. A superb example of private press printing. This is one of 328 copies on Batchelor handmade paper, with a further 25 copies printed on vellum. The colophon reads in full: 'Printed by C.H. St J. Hornby at the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea, with the help of H. Gage-Cole, Pressman, and A.J. Fisk, Compositor, and finished in July of the year 1932. The initial letters in colour are by the hands of Graily Hewitt & his assistants Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley'. Ecclesiasticus, a collection of ethical teachings attributed to Joshua ben Sirach, is one of the biblical apocrypha. The text of this edition was collated by A.D. Power using the Authorised and Revised versions, with reference to versions in Greek, Syriac, Latin and the original Hebrew.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [ii], 182 pp., 11.5 x 7.75 in., original orange-dyed flexible vellum, short title blocked in gilt on the spine, fore-edge uncut, four orange silk ties; original marbled-paper slipcase. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. Chapter headings and shoulder notes in red, the blue and green initials hand-colored by Graily Hewitt and two assistants. "[Q]ualities which separately had triumphed in many Ashendene volumes were assembled as before the final curtain of an opera. Short chapters and sections showed the poetic setting of Subiaco which best suited that type, as in Dante, Lucretius and Spenser. Red headings and shoulder notes, frequent and varied intervals assist the reading of a miraculous text" (Colin Franklin, The Ashendene Press, p. 187). One of 328 copies. A bright and fresh copy, fine in all respects, with no fading to the bold orange vellum covers. A touch of rubbing at the slipcase tips and a small abrasion on one side of the slipcase. Ashendene Press Bibliography 38.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 4to (11.5 x 8 inches). 182pp. Original overlapping full orange vellum by W. H. Smith & Son under the direction of Douglas Cockerell, with matching colored ties (four in total, two on each cover), gilt spine. 328 copies printed. Manuscript initial letters in red, blue and green by Graily Hewitt and his assistants, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Ecclesiasticus, a collection of ethical teachings attributed to Joshua ben Sirach, is one of the biblical apocrypha. The text of this edition was collated by A.D. Power using the Authorized and Revised versions, with reference to versions in Greek, Syriac, Latin and the original Hebrew. "In my humble judgement it is one of the most satisfactory of the books of the Press." (Hornby 38). A fine copy.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5724.10 + shipping
Description: One of 328 copies on paper. 4to. Printed in red and black with hand-painted initials in blue and green by Graily Hewitt, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley. In the original orange-vellum, bound by Douglas Cockerell at the W. H. Smith Bindery. Four silk ties. Housed in custom-slipcase. An uncommonly fine copy, the orange-stained vellum still vibrant, especially to the spine which is prone to fade. Internally fine, the pages clean and crisp. 'In my humble judgement it is one of the most satisfactory of the books of the Press' (Hornby 38).
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom