Lot 179
Ashendene Press.- Book of Songs and Poems (A) from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, one of 150 copies on paper, 1904
Hammer Price: £1,900
Description
Ashendene Press.- Book of Songs and Poems (A) from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, one of 150 copies on paper, Subiaco type, printed in red and black, initials by Graily Hewitt supplied by hand in blue, original limp vellum, spine titled in gilt, uncut, [Franklin p.237; Hornby XVIII], 8vo, Ashendene Press, 1904.
⁂ According to Colin Franklin this "is one of the most charming works of a modest sort that the Press produced...This book might be seen together with the Ecclesiasticus, for it is something like a diminutive version of it." The Private Presses p.61.
Description
Ashendene Press.- Book of Songs and Poems (A) from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, one of 150 copies on paper, Subiaco type, printed in red and black, initials by Graily Hewitt supplied by hand in blue, original limp vellum, spine titled in gilt, uncut, [Franklin p.237; Hornby XVIII], 8vo, Ashendene Press, 1904.
⁂ According to Colin Franklin this "is one of the most charming works of a modest sort that the Press produced...This book might be seen together with the Ecclesiasticus, for it is something like a diminutive version of it." The Private Presses p.61.
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