The Ashendene Press (3 results)

Hardcover. First Edition. Nice bright clean copy, near fine, trival wear, no bumps.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. [2], 182pp. Publisher's original orange vellum, bound by W. H. Smith with their pallet to lower turn in, title, publisher, and date in gilt to spine, silk ties. Hint of fading to spine, but otherwise bright and clean. Housed in a Cockerell paper covered card slipcase. One of three hundred and twenty-eight copies on paper, with twenty-five on vellum. "Printed in Subiaco type, with chapter-headings and shoulder-notes in red. All the coloured initials are filled in by hand in red, blue, or green by Graily Hewitt & his two assistants" (Hornby, 'A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at The Ashendene Press MDCCCCV-MCMXXXV', page 90). Hornby himself thought it was "one of the most satisfactory of the books of the Press" (ibid, page 92). Ashendene XXXVIII Size: 4to.…

Traduction de Messie J. Amyot, editee et corrigee par Paul-Louis Courier. [Text in French]. Pp. [iv]+iv+164(last blank), printed in red & black, text illustrations (4 full page), the decorative initials drawn in blue by Graily Hewitt and his assistants, printer's mark C in red at colophon; narrow cr. 4to; qr. vellum, lettered and ruled in gilt, turquoise papered boards with vellum corner-tips, circular gilt design by Gwen Raverat at centre of upper board, the edges of the paper very slightly chipped; uncut; within patterned papered slipcase, which is slightly worn; lower hinge tender, a little light foxing; printed by C. H. St. John Hornby, The Ashendene Press, Chelsea, 1933. Edition limited to 310 copies; this being one of 290 copies printed on paper. Franklin pages 242-3. *The penultimate book from The Ashendene Press. The wood-engraved illustrations by Gwen Raverat are described by Colin Franklin (The Ashendene Press, page 243), as 'the only worthwhile original illustrations in an Ashendene book'. The Ashendene Daphnis et Chloe was intended for publication in 1931, but that edition was printed on Japanese vellum, and because the sheets were packed before the slow-drying ink had sufficiently hardened, all but 10 copies had to be destroyed.…