Description
Essex House Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Poems..., one of 450 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece and decorative initials ?by C.R.Ashbee, 1899 § Bunyan (John) The Pilgrims Progress, number 747 of 750 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece by C.R.Ashbee, 1899 § [Ashbee (C.R.) An Endeavour towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris [being an Account of the Work and Aims of the Guild of Handicraft...], number 225 of 350 copies, wood-engraved frontispiece and initials by George Thomson, bookplate of Edward Harmon Virgin, 1901 § Hood (Tom) Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg, one of 200 copies, signed and inscribed "To Miss Grace Parker from C.R. & Janet Ashbee Sep. 1907" on front free endpaper, wood-engraved plates by Reginald Savage, some staining to lower edge, original cloth-backed boards, worn & stained, 1904 § Ashbee (C.R.) Kingfisher out of Egypt, one of 750 copies, signed and inscribed by the author "To Bro. F.C.Tilne, hero of 'Art & Reason' with greeting & good will from the Author..." on verso of title, illustrations, title lightly browned, original vellum-backed boards, rubbed, printed at the Alcuin Press, 1934, the first three all original limp vellum, yapp edges, the first with ties, the third a little wrinkled by damp causing staining to endpapers, v.s., Campden, the first four printed at the Essex House Press (5)
Lot 81
Essex House Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Poems..., one of 450 copies, Essex House Press, 1899 & others from the press (5)
Hammer Price: £600
Description
Essex House Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Poems..., one of 450 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece and decorative initials ?by C.R.Ashbee, 1899 § Bunyan (John) The Pilgrims Progress, number 747 of 750 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece by C.R.Ashbee, 1899 § [Ashbee (C.R.) An Endeavour towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris [being an Account of the Work and Aims of the Guild of Handicraft...], number 225 of 350 copies, wood-engraved frontispiece and initials by George Thomson, bookplate of Edward Harmon Virgin, 1901 § Hood (Tom) Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg, one of 200 copies, signed and inscribed "To Miss Grace Parker from C.R. & Janet Ashbee Sep. 1907" on front free endpaper, wood-engraved plates by Reginald Savage, some staining to lower edge, original cloth-backed boards, worn & stained, 1904 § Ashbee (C.R.) Kingfisher out of Egypt, one of 750 copies, signed and inscribed by the author "To Bro. F.C.Tilne, hero of 'Art & Reason' with greeting & good will from the Author..." on verso of title, illustrations, title lightly browned, original vellum-backed boards, rubbed, printed at the Alcuin Press, 1934, the first three all original limp vellum, yapp edges, the first with ties, the third a little wrinkled by damp causing staining to endpapers, v.s., Campden, the first four printed at the Essex House Press (5)