Works by Mr. C. R. Ashbee TECHNICAL AND CIVIC. ^Chapters in Workshop Re-construction and ^ Citizenship The Treatises of Cellini on Metalwork and Sculpture. 1898 London Survey Publications (see separate List) An Endeavour in the Teachings of John Ruskin aud William Morris. 1901 American Sheaves and English Seed Corn. 1901 Socialism and Politics : a study in the re- adjustment of values. 1906 A Book of Cottages and Little Houses. 1906 ^Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry. 1908 Modern English Silverwork, 1909 The Trust Deed of the Guild of Handicraft. 1909 ^ Should we Stop Teaching Art. 1912 A^The Hamptonshire Experiment in Education. 1914 Where the Great City stands. 1917 Frank Lloyd Wright “ Eine Studie seiner Scliilderung.” 1904 The American League to enforce Peace. 1917 'Jerusalem. 1918-20... ■ Jerusalem. 1920-2 , 8 (Essex House Press) (Essex House Press) (Batsford) (Essex House Press) (Batsford) (Allen & Unwin) (Essex House Press) (Wachsmuth) (Allen & Unwin) (Murray) (Murray) POETRY AND BELLES LETTERS. The Masque of the Edwards. 1902--. The Last Records of a Cotswold Community The Essex House Song Book. 1905 Echoes from the City of the Sun (a book of poems). 1905 ■■■ Conradin (a ballad). 1908 ••• The Private Press ; a study in Idealism. 1909 -'The Building of Thelema (a romance of the workshops). 1910 ^^-Lyrics of the Nile. 19I?J^ (Essex House Press) Palestine Note Book. 1918-1923) (Dent) (Essex House Press) (Doubleday, Page & Heinemann) Many of the above works are out of print ; application for them should be made to the Publishers , or failing that to the Author C. R. ASHBEE, Godden Green, Sevenoaks, Kent. PRIVATE PRESS as we upder~- The stapd it at the present day ip Epg~ purpose lapd apd Aiperica is a Press whose 0 f a objective is first of all a p sestbctic Private ope, a press that if it is to have Press, real worth cballepges support op a basis of Stapdard, caters for a liipited rparket apd is pot cop~ cerped with the questiop of the Coipiperial deyelopipept of priptipg by ipaebipery. It is of such a Press that I wish to give a brief accoupt apd ip so doipg to estiipate pot oply its yalue ip the Ipdustrial sebeipe of tbipgs, but also that of other presses of a siipilar character. The questiop ipvolyed is, what future lies before tberp ? How are they to be ipaiptaiped apd at whose charges ? It is ope of these little ipatters of which we hear ipuripurs every pow apd agaip ip the side issues of life j— ipatters that have to do with Idealisip ip Ipdustry. The life of the Essex House Press is boupd up ip~ tiipately with that of the Guild of Handicraft, apd this iptiipacy is likely to coptipue. The Press ip its work largely reflects the ethical purpose of the Guild, apd it has the sarpe sigpificapce ip regard to Stapdard ip workipapsbip;— that stapdard which the Guild ip its other productiops has sought to ipaiptaip. As a copsequepce it has suffered apd is likely to coptipue to suffer the satpe terpporary eclipses that coipe to all updertakipgs ip the deyelopipept of ipoderp ipdustry, whose aiips are pot priiparily coipipercial. It is ipy object ip the presept essay, to give ap accoupt of this, to show the reasops why it has beep so, apd to suggest the reipedies as far as they apply to sipall priyate Presses whose objective is fipe workipapsbip apd high Stapdard. I pick up the thread of the story of our little Press where I left it ip a receptly published work 'Craftstpapsbip ip Coip~ petitive Ipdustry, 1908' apd ip the bibliography of the Press issued ip 1904, wbep ap exbibitiop of its work was held ip Lopdop. The lipk betweep the Essex House Press apd the 3 Kelrrjscott Press to which allusion was made in both those publications was a slight ope, but a yery real ope both in sentiment and ip the tradition of workmanship* When the Press of the rnaster craftsman was closed, the Guild of Handi~ craft with the assistance of Laurence Hodson and with a yiew to keeping alive the traditions, purchased the presses, and all the plant of the Kelrnscott Press with the exception of the type and blocks. In addition to this, and what was of R O A D. even more yalue, the Guild made arrangements with the principal compositors and pressmen on the Kelrnscott Staff to enter the Guild. This was done and the new venture was then started at Essex House in Mile End, of which a block by Geo. Thompson is here shown* We further had the benefit of the help of most of those who had assisted 'William Morris in his work. Mr. Ellis edited for us, Mr. Batchelor made the paper, Mr. Hooper and Mr. Keates cut new blocks, 4 I Mr. Prince made pew dies from my designs. Ink and yellun? also were obtained front? tbs same sourcos as of old, and tbs Kslrpscott traditions carrisd or? as systematically as possible. When the Guild of Handicraft moved front? London to the little town of Cbippmg Carnpdsn in tbe Cotswolds, tbe Press, still retaining tb® na«?s, was n?oysd witb tbe rest of tbe Guilds workshops into the old silk nt?ill, to which fhe na«?e of Essex House was giyen, and bere its work was carried on till its removal to the Nornt?an Chapel close by, where this book with others of the later issues have been printed. In the first of five books just referred to, I used the Press The as an illustration of an unfortunate truth in nt?odern economic Private life that 'the cheap shop brings down the good shop.' What Press all business n?en, whether they conduct Presses, Builders* and Yards, Silversmiths*, Joiners*, Blacksmiths* or Jewellers* Indust- shops know to be an axiom* is fine need for continuity rial in business. What all of us l?owever who are artists, and Mach- who deal with businesses first front? fhe point of view inery. of Standard of excellence know to be also an axion?, is that continuity in business is not, under fhe present con- ditions of Industrialism, possible where Standard is a first consideration- Modern Industrialism makes no provision for Standard. The fundamental reasons for this are not far to seek. They lie in fhe present conditions of Industrial Machinery, in its use and abuse. The deyelopement of standard, excellence in craftsmanship* are matters of human con- tinuity; under the existing conditions of Industrial Mach- inery the men do not count, the human continuity is not a matter of any consequence. We may build the Standard up, we do so continually, but under existing conditions scarce is it built up when it is knocked down again. This can be clearly and pointedly illustrated by the work- ings of a good printing Press. What are its prime needs ? Scholarship and skill, in designers, readers, compositors, and pressmen* The man who thinks out file format of a book must study it in eyery detail 5 he must, apart from Gw difficult question of desigpipg fhe type, kpow where to get his paper, apd ipk, apd get theip good; he ipust upderstapd ftw balapce apd arrapgerpept of his pages, he ipust have fhe ipep actually at call who cap set up apd chapge his proofs for hiip, apd he ipust pot be perpetually haippered by the copsideratiop that cost has always fipally to deter- ipipe his results. ^ T be coippositor ip the pext place ipust be skilled ip the ipakipg of the page, flriply filled apd without rivers, without also those silly furbelows, flourishes apd lipes which coipe out of the ordipary cases, apd which are ap excuse for the absepce of good desigp; apd lastly perhaps ipost iipportapt of all, the pressipap ipust have learped to work cleaply apd with feelipg, he ipust kpow how to upderlay properly, he ipust be versed ip five dryipg of his ipks apd, -a very difficult apd rare attaipipept, for few have learpt it,— he ipust kpow how to hapdle yelluip if special copies are to be pripted op that ipaterial. t©*. Now it is obvious that if the differept ipep who peed this expert kpowledge, are perpetually disturbed, if they are takep away froip their work to ipipd ipachipes, or have set before theip coipipercial stapdards; have to look after lipo- types apd so forth, if their copstapt apd first thought is the ipaiptepapee of the labour upiops that are to protect their livelihood, they cappot be thipkipg of Stapdard ip work- ipapsbip. Priptipg as a craft for theip disappears. If iporeoyer coipipercial copditiops ipilitate agaipst their workipg together at the right ipoipept, i.e., whep the good book is to be produced; if the coippositor breaks dowp, or the pressipap has suddeply to be replaced by the ipachipe Note. Thousapds of proofs were pulled for the Kipg's Prayer Book apd for the abapdoped sebeipe of the Bible, For the latter the Press spept sixty poupds ip experiipepts apd sorpe 70 drawipgs were prepared to arriye at ope speciipep page. This expepditure was ipdepepdept of tixpe ipapy of us put ip as desigpers apd orgapizers— ipy owp tiipe apd ipy partper's, which was pot paid for at all. 6 bapd, because be bas bad to look for another job, or the good paper cappot be got because tbe recept deipapd for tbe forip required bas beep too sipall; if tbe pecessary tiipe be pot allowed for dryipg tbe sheets apd dryers bave to be put ipto tbe ipk; if all or apy of these break dowp, the good book breaks dowp. The work of a priyate press of high stapdard therefore is of a pature that requires the keepipg together of a certaip group of traditiops, apd all those who have worked at the problerp of priptipg as ap Art would I feel sure epdorse this fact. It is updoubtedly borpe out by the two ipyaluable studies ip this directiop that as pripters apd book loyers we possess froip the Kelipscott apd Vale Presses. Mr. Cockerell's bibliography of fine Kelipscott Press; apd Mr. Ricketts' 'Defepce of the reviyal of Priptipg,' which without supplyipg what ope would have wished to see, -a Biblio~ graphy, -gives a practical ipsigbt ipto the workipg of frig Vale Press; these two cbaripipg little works proye Traditiop. i®. The work of the Essex House Press divides itself fitly The ipto two periods, the first wbep it was upder ipy persopal work of superyisiop froip the year 1898 to the year 1906, the secopd the whep it was upder the superyisiop of ipy friepd apd colleague Essex Dr. A. K. Cooiparaswarpy up to five presept tiipe, apd the House books issued duripg these two periods respectively show Press, frig bias of those who directed its work. t@>.The Bibliography givep at the close of this essay gives the publicatiops ip detail with a few potes upop each, apd I add ip further illustratiop extracts froip the Colopbops apd iippressiops of soipe of the press iparks apd cuts that froip tiipe to tiipe baye adorped the books. It was the desire of those of us who were at work op the Press to draw ip the assistapee of as ipapy artists as possible who were ipterested Note. Whep we issued the Kipg's Prayer Book, we had duripg frig last two ipoptbs of its productiop 45 capcellatiops frorp Aiperica. We wapted to dry our sheets a little lopger but they were ip too great a hurry to wait for that ! They would have therp wet or pot at all. 7 ip the revival of priptipg as ap art. All their parpes appear ip the Bibliography, but as the cuts rpade for the press at differept tirpes have beep desigped to fit certaip pages apd types, I baye selected oply such as cap be readily adapted to tbc foripat of tbe presept book. Arpopg these boweyer will be foupd work by Williaip Strapg, Laurepce Housipap, Walter Crape, Paul Woodroffe, Fred Griggs, Regipald Savage, Edipupd New, Edith Harwood, Alec Miller, Pbillippe Mairet, Dr. Cooiparaswarpy apd rpyself. A few words blocks apd op character of will pot be out It is of course book as a dude work of touch, but if ship to the sidered apd garded as rather tbap this depar- ditiop will pardoped. I baveplaceed has always the rpost Regipa 1 d blocks, apd cut hiipself House Bup- about these the style apd the desigpers of place here, upfair to apy whole to ip- so differept a the relatiop- page be cop- the cuts here- illustrative decoratiye, ture frorp tra- perhaps be Op this page what for rpe beep ope of pleasipg of Savage’s ope that he for the Essex yap, Chris- tiap with his burdep at the Slough of Despopd ; apd op the page followipg I show his wood-cut for the Essex House Press editiop of Shakespeare’s poerps with the illustratiop to Vepus apd Adopis. There is about both these blocks a delicacy apd grace that well fits then? for the page. Obserye ip both the touch of roipaptic lapdscape, apd the ipystery that suggests the rerpoter tpeapipgs of the poet. illustrations to Torn Hood’s Miss Killrpansegg, of wbicb tbc episodes of tbe Christening of tbe bciress, ber accident in tbc park, and tbe bowing down before tbe Golden Calf are bere giyen. Obserye in 12 the second of these the delicate iropy ip the draughtsrpapship to illustrate the words of the text:— 'A thousand yoices cry 'stop her!* Apd ope old geptlerpap stares apd stapds Apd shakes his head apd lifts his hapds, Apd says ' How yery irpproper!’ All these three illustratiops of Toip Hood have a fascipa- tiop eptirely their owp, they are ipstipct with the wit apd hurpour of the poerp, they poipt out hupdreds of faptastic thipgs that the poet has rpeapt, his iropy, his bitterpess, his kipdlipess, his geptlepess apd they do it ip a ipapper eptirely their owp. Yery differept ip style though they go pot ipappropri- ately op opposite pages are the work of Walter Crape whose illustratiop to Wordsworth’s 'Ode op the iptirpatiops of Iiprportality’ is here giyep op page * 4 , apd Paul Woodroffe’s cut for Browpipg’s 'Flight of the Duchess.’ These two drawipgs, as was Laurepce Housrpap’s block for Teppy sop’s Maud op page \ 6 , were desigped for the vellurp series to which further referepce is ipade below. Walter Crape’s drawipg is a delightful piece of work ip his later style, but it loses, as do ipapy of these blocks desigped for yelluip, frorp the absepce of the colour, the prisrpatic rays roupd the halo epcirclipg the childrep dapcipg op the shore, are peeded to giye yalue to the dapce. This absepce of colour is less poticeable ip Paul Woodroffe’s drawipg with its all- white back groupd. Woodroffe is a staiped glass desigper as well as a book illustrator, perhaps there is a little of the feelipg of the rpassipg of figures agaipst a white groupd which we oftep see ip his pictorial work ip glass. It is ipterestipg to pote ip corpparipg the book illustra- tiop ip black apd white, of the four or fiye ipasters whose work is here showp, how their colour sepse apd decorative feelipg have affected their hapdlipg of the woodblock. We are rerpipded of the appositepess of a retpark of Burpe dopes’ how that whep he was at a loss for a ipotiye ip a book illustratiop he would look at a piece of old tapestry or glass. Returpipg agaip to Laurepce Housipap’s block for l 3 4 mammKImKM Tennyson's Maud referred to above, and which I show here or? page t6, it is worth pointing out that it has an interesting history. It represents a collar boration between Laurence Housrnan, Reginald Savage, and Miss Clerpence Housrnan who cut the block. The Press indeed is rnucb indebted to Miss Housmap for her skilful apd sympathetic cutting, apd son»e of the Prayer Book blocks, potably the Nicoderpus visitipg Christ, which I show at the close of this essay arpopg the alphabets, with a i5 iWiin w iftffi" Mfc i M r >iM rtr i i purpber of others frorp rpy desigp, are by her bapd. i©*. Op the opposite page I give Edrpupd New's characteristic CT block of Dover's Hill, Cotswold Hill as it was called ip Shakespeare's tirpe, which he did for rpy book ‘The Last 16 - -• - • ••■■ - s.-vs>'v *. Records of a Cotswold Coipipupity.' It has adrpirably caught the spirit of t be great greet? aipphitheatre op the wolds where the farpous garpes were played ip Shakespeare's day. There are browsipg sheep, hawthorpe bushes, the suggestiop of fhfi lypches below, apd reipipders of the old village corpipupity apd the op ep fields. Of Edtpupd Mew's work I place also op the pages followipg sorpe chartpipg cuts of his Lopdop Churches ip illustratiop to the Press's editiop of Wrep's Pareptalia. C V] if ali'. m i I msH ! m Xh i\i czw t@. Very differept agaip is the work of Williarp Strang. Here we baye a rpaster of almost agressive vitality, bis lipe absolutely differept frorp tbe others apd bis touch stropg apd firrp eyep to coarsepess. But there is ip Strapg’s wood block work as ip his etcbipg apd his paipt- ipg, a largepess, a burpapity that tpakes his uglipess loye~ able. He has also, witpess the borders to the Essex House editiop of Erasipus* Praise of Folie which I show here, a grotesque apd buoy- apt hurpour that iparks the ipap; ope cappot help likipg these ugly people topipg op the title page. For a kipdred reasop we feel a partiality for Taip o’ Sbapter apd biscorp- 4 li mm i\ x t • 1 1 » 1 1 1 1 1 _ //i • • »» 20 A V: L ciruiiiimnvaimiimimiu mim r f papiops l)alf seas over, with the landlady growing 'upco gracious/ This block toget- her with the ope I have set opposite it op pages 22 apd 23 are frorp wood-cuts to Burps 7 pocrp op the ope hapd, apd op the other to Coleridge's Apciept Mariper, both of which were dope for the vellurp series. The Press has beep fort- upate ip hayipg had a good deal of work frorp Strapg's hapd frorp tirpe to tirpe, but it is a rpatter of the utrpost regret that we were peyer able to carry out the great upder- takipg of the Lecterp Bible for which we were plappipg sorpe 200 wood block illustratiops frorp his hapd apd for sorpe of the preparatory cuts of / — V - & - b T ^ ^ ,/h — y ( ‘(/k/sssss - ws 21 which be bad ipade sorpe seventy studies. Tbe filial blocks we prepared for tbis work are too large ip fonpat to give here, but sorpe of then? baye beep pulled as sarpple pages. Irppossible also to giye bere is tbe poble series of tbe Doipgs of Death, issued ip portfolio as well as ip book forip apd pripted ip two colours, tbe effect of tbe bigb lights beipg got by the white of the paper froip below the browp of the first priptipg. 22 i@>. Ii? this series there is the sarpe sort of ipood as ir? the little cut here showp, fhe rpood of griippess apd deterrpipatiop, these rpep are callous apd stoical as they cord the albatross roupd the peck of the dooiped Mariner. Strapg is pot oply a fipe designer of black apd white he is also a great portrait draughts^ rpap, apd ip each of his portraits there is sorpe touch of his sitter's uglipess reyealed ip the beauty of the 23 draugbtsrpapsbip. I baye beard bi*P say 'All tpy life have I, tried to draw sorpetbipg pretty arid baye peyer yet succeeded. Those wbo like rpyself baye sat to bin? for our portraits apd prize tbe results arpopg our household possessiops, are also grirply copscious of ap uppleasapt sorpetbipg ip ourselyes tbat we dop’t like to rpeptiop but tbat our loye of trutbfulpess would pot baye us copceal. 4©^ Returpipg agaip to tbe work of Paul Woodroffe, I giye bere ap exarpple of bis border work together with a desigp for a Cbristrpas Carol 'The spow lay op the groupd,’ which the Press sept out as a corpplirpept to its Subscribers, it wept with Woodroffe’s drawipg for rpusic which has great cbarrp, apd which the Press was glad to have the privilege of usipg ip the Essex House Sopg Book of which I speak below, t© These two pages were desigped for black apd red so I place tberp as far as it is possible ip the rpapper plapped, the seyep little verses of the poerp were ip black with the refraip ip red:— The spow lay op the groupd, The stars sbope bright, Whep Christ Our Lord was borp Op Ch^isttpas night. Yepite, adore rp us Dorpipuip. Op the followipg pages I put the rpusic. c© It is a pity that ip the drawipg of rpoderp rpusic, the copveptiops of uglipess which have beep brokep dowp ip typography still hold sway,— but tbep rpusic apd pbilistipisrp so oftep go together, i© After these blocks of the staiped glass paipter we pass to apotber artist of a quite differept rpapper, F red Griggs. His style is akip to that of Edrpupd New but he carries the rpetbod op further. Op pages 28, 29, 30 apd 31 are sorpe exarpples of his drawipgs of houses apd gardeps. These were dope by birp of buildipgs apd restoratiops of rpipe, apd rpade to illustrate tpy book op f Cottages apd Little Houses.’ Fred Griggs is peculiarly happy ip repderipg ip black apd white the Cotswold a |\ i#rj - ^ : 4 ^' iWi We character, the stope apd slatipg, the craftsrpapship apd grey- colour of the wolds. The buildings showp are all of then} ip Carppdep, apd rpy oply regret is that the lirpits of space rpake it i impossible for ipe to give ipore. Perhaps it is the direct appeal that his style rpakes to ap architect, which 25 gives bis drawing its chief interest to one who is first concerned with building. The blocks are beautiful in tbenjsel ves as book illustration, but they are aboye all truthful renderings of the buildings I have put up. With the rpajority of architectural drawings,— the hard a?ecbanical 29 drawings of the Royal Academy draughtsman, and the picturesque and sloppy architecture of the picture painter,— this is not the case. The architect's needs are first of all •■ . _ * "* .u .■&?£ — - -•— . fc X & truthfulness and accuracy, but there are need also of feeling and sympathy? unless the draughtsman can in a book 30 illustratiop give both these things, bis work is pot good work. Fred Griggs giyes sorpetbipg rpore beside, be giyes us cbaripipg little touches of local colour apd thought, such thipgs have little place ip rpechapical Ipdustry, but they are 3t of the essence of architecture. Among the last of the illustrators of the Press of whom? I propose here to speak are Edith Harwood and Philippe Mairet. Of the former I give an alphabet among the sequence of alphabets to be found at the close of this essay, of the latter I give on the opposite page an illustration to file Ballad of Copradip which Mairet illustrated for rpe and which was issued ip 1908. The cut represents the Sybil appearing to five young Hohenstaufen as he rides south- ward into the orange groves to regain his Norrnan inheri- tance. Of Edith Harwood's work I arp unable to give ipuch in illustration,— her principal designing?— the delightful dancing and play of children,— was done for ‘The Masque of the Edwards,' the largest book in size printed by the Press, moreover it was corpbined with colour block print- ing and pulled on grey paper so that any rendering here is impossible. The dainty little alphabet, one bloomer to eyery yerse, which she prepared for the Vellum Chaucer ‘Flower and Leaf' gives an example of her manner. It must be borne in mipd however that all these initials are carefully thought out for hand colouring in which form on yellum they were finally issued. i©>. Following Edith Harwood's alphabet will be found four of my own, the ten line pink, the three line pink, the the psalter alphabet, and the letters for the Gospels, etc., in the King's Prayer Book. It remains now only to speak of the designs and cuts of the two books which are typographical the largest works undertaken by the Press, and upon each of which the Press was engaged for nearly two years,— the Prayer Book of King Edward VII. and Dr. Coomaraswamy's Mediseyal Sinhalese Art. I have more to say of the latter book below, but I give on the pages here following some examples of his drawings. They are interesting from many points of view. Their meaning and purpose the reader will search for himself in the text of the work, but they have a special typographical interest. They represent the application of line to Indian motives, 32 a^d they illustrate its use in the rendering °f oriental syrpbolisrn, pattern, and craftsmanship. Thus the block J: s" here giyen is front? a painted box, while the drawings below are of ffower and leaf forays characteristic of Sinhalese V VI VII VIII 1 IX design. On the page opposite are a larnp, a cresset, exarnples of conventional fforal and animal decoration, and at the bottom 34 of tbs page tbe orparpepted bolt of a Sinhalese door. Op tbe pext two pages are sorpe delightful exarpples of rpetal work apd door furpiture apd arpopg tberp a writer’s style with the orieptal parpes of the yarious parts, tbs proportiops of 35 which are determined by fixed capops. The font? of the letters made by tbe writer is determined by tbe weight apd balapce of tbe ipstrurpept. Tbe book is a mine of wealth for the craftsman apd the designer ip all those domestic arts which the machine is little by little starving to death; rpore to say later ir) its proper Of my owi) work op the here apd op the pages, where is rpade to the the cuts. The which appeared site each other, baptisipg of St. Arpbrose. The are for the Cat~ Visitatiop of the impossible to irpportaptblocks of the page apd pot adrpit of this, cuts of which the teacbipg of the Appe rpay be ta~ of file lipe work ip soipe cases file Cattersop Smith drawipg from The cut sbowp theproclaipatiop it was drawp soop after the death of the old Queep. I said at the outset that the Essex House Press reflected the ethical purpose of the Guild of Hapdicraft, apd that it had the saipe sigpificapce ip regard to Stapdard ip workrpap- ship. I tbipk this rpigbt be illustrated by a short accoupt of the pripcipal books produced by the Press duripg the last 12 years. 38 but of this I shall baye place. Prayer Book I give two followipg special referepce book soipe of first two of these, textually oppo~ represept the Augustipe by St. cuts that follow ecbisrp apd the sick. It has beep giye the ipore because the size file bapdlipg do but the two little first sigpifies the yirgip by St. kep as examples ip which I had assistapce of who did the ipk mypepcilstudies. op page 42 is for of his Majesty, I group these upder five heads:— (a) Technical books, or books dealing with the Crafts. (b) Religious apd Puritap books. (c) Hurpapistic books. (d) Books dealing with the work apd ideals of the Guild itself. (e) Books op oriental subjects. Upder the first of the above headings would corpe the Treatises ip Me~ tureof Bepvepu- I translated frorp tpy Guild rpetal book like Sir "Wren's Parepta- ap architectural as a coipipept op rpercialisrp, — op sire of the thorities to turp their Trust ipto the rpopey value ‘The Cottage 28 to 31; ‘The fine LopdopSur- Mr. Stebbipg’s Worth'; apd, the issued by the of Silyer De~ fall upder the works, apd ip all Tech- nical tal W ork8?Sculp~ to Cellipi which Books, the Italiap for workers; also a Christopher lia, valuable as treatise apd also Modern Corp~ the itchipg de~ ecclesiastical au~ the Churches of cash; apd realise of their sites; book ' (see pages publications of vey Corprpittee ; ‘Church of last book so far Press, tpy Book sigps. All these headofTechpical of therp the gos~ Colophop to the far as the Press pot up to the pel of Standard has beep preached. The first of the series sets forth the purpose, as was copcerped. If the fulfiltpept was oftep epdeavour it was pot for wapt of trying. It reads thus :— ‘ Here epd the treatises of Bepyeputo Cellipi op rpetal work apd sculpture, rpade ipto English frorp the Italian of the Marciap Code by C. R. Ashbee, apd pripted by bin? at fhe 39 Guild's Press at Essex House, with the assistance of Laurence Hodson who sought to keep living the traditions of good printing refounded by Williarn Morris, fhe rpaster craftsrnan, and likewise of T. Binning and J. Tippett, corppositors, and S. Mowleip, pressrpap, who cainc to Essex House frotp the Kelrpscott Press to tbat end. Begun April, 1898; finished October, 1898.’ The second group of Essex House Press publications is rpore important, it coinprises books that are even ipore than classics. Many question been books of Prayer are so often they are so rich The answer is rpen have loved deyotions, to which they held The Book Prayer, and the Version of the wrangling of and fhe cold higher critic- will re inain greatest stand- the English is not ipappro- that fhe two pri- hayeinEngland titpes has the asked, why and Devotion collected, why in adornment, not far to seek: to honour their enoble that rpost sacred, of Coinrnon Authorized Bible, for all the the Churches touch of the istp, are and perhaps the two ard works in tongue, and it priate I think yate presses who done rpost to carry on fhe Kelrpscott traditions of good printing* should have produced the two leading books in this direction:— the Doyes Bible and the King Edward VII. Prayer Book. Of this Prayer Book I giye the Colophon as I think the parpes of those who rpade it deserye recording: 'Here ends the Prayer Book of King Edward VII. 5 printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft; begun at Essex House, Bow, London, E. in MDCCCCI. and finished at Essex House, 40 Carnpden, Gloucestershire, ir> August, MDCCCCIII. The designs and the type throughout are by C. R. Ashbee; R. Catterson~Srnith assisted in the preparation of sonje of fhe blocks, which were cut by W. H. Hooper, and Clernence Housrnan* The proofs haye been corrected by Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, His Majesty's Printers ; the cornpositors are T. Binning, W. Hill, Archie Rarnage; and the pressipen R. Eatley, T. Jeliffe, junr., and S. Lodder. The binding has been done under the direction of Miss A. Power, in part at the Bindery of the Guild of Handicraft, and in part by Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode. Cinder heading also other deyo~ of interest.— tation of Thornas a which Alec the block to nr)y de~ Crantper Mornynge ranee of fhe garet, first Wynkin de last but not littlePuritan haye had a do with the English thought} the second we selected tional books *The In?i~ Christ' by Kerppis, for Miller cut SSornarpents sign} the Psalter; the Ren? e rpb~ Lady Mar- printed by Worde; and least three books that great deal to forrnation of Progress, Penn's Of the first Bunyan's Pilgriin's Fruits of Solitude, and Woolrpan's Journal, of these I have spoken on page 8. I wish I had space also for Sayage's picture of John Woolrnan the gentle American Quaker expostulating with the inn keeper;— he and Christian at the Slough always reipain for us ernblernatic figures. There is a vital connection too between the teaching of Woolnjan and this question of Standard. The New Jersey f 4 X Quaker was the first man who directly applied Christian Ethics to industrial conditions. He is the first Socialist of tl^e age of Industrialism. He carpe at the beginning °f it all, and he foresaw. He discoverd Gw tendency of machinery, he condemned cheap labour as unchristian, and he weighed up to a nicety the growing materialism of his time and ours, he weighed it up and found it worthless. That is what Woolman's journal means to us as producers and as men of affairs. This book was sent out by the Essex House Press with the guarantee of the Pease family ib England, and it is good to think that t here are still Quaker sufficiently see the prac~ of ethics up~ production- ph°n of sets it ends t John w of friends the Esse would d recording a m an b e him- T book ha on the guar John Pease families discerningto tical bearing on sound The Colo~ book thus 'Here Journal of man the best To whom House Press honour by his work in worthy of this end. the been printed antee of Mr. and other friends, with a frontispiece by Reginald Sayage, and under the care of C. R. Ashbee.’ HuToan-^ *.P ass bow to the humabistic books. It is an open istic Books. question with many of us, whether in these days of disintegrating religious formulae on the one hand, and rapid industrial eyolution on the other, a humanistic ideal is not vital to us, whether it is not one of the first things we haye to set before ourselyes. Such indeed is my belief as an artist, and I see in the constructive arts, Gw divine protest 42 of frie individual against tl)G deadening materialism of the machine. These constructive arts, in which so many of us are engaged, arc fighting the battle of human, of personal, of spiritual expression against the tendencies of industrial development, and they are fighting it in their own little way with just as much earnestness as Quaker Woolipan when he travelled to England, or John Bunyan when he wrote in the Bedford Gaol. These men stood for freedom of thought and speech, we stand for freedom to labour imaginatively. It is the fight of the human spirit either way. ^ Among the humanistic books then, -the books that express this sense of fhe emancipated human spirit,— that the Essex House Press has issued, are Hoby’s Courtyer, Cballoner's Praise of Folie, Harrington's Book of Friend- ship. These books baye all got in them much of the breath of life; but their peculiar interest for us is less in their source, less in the Italian of Baldassare Castiglione, the scholarly Latin of Erasmus, the classical Latin of Cicero, than in the fact that the three contemporary translators, Hoby, Cballoner, and Harrington, were fine Elizabethan humanists, men who had that quality which in modern life most of us are without, and that they were among the founders of English Prose. ^ This sympathy ip burpapisrp betweep them apd us of a later day, apd the fact that their writipgs ip the yirgin English of their utterance are re-issued from the Press of the Guild of Handicraft is sigpiflcapt of a poipt worth em~ phasizipg. The Guild is ip itself a humanistic experirpept, has for pear a quarter of a ceptury beep so, apd is likely to coptipue to be. In its work, its life, its teaebipg and the methods of its membership, it has consistently set before itself a humanistic ideal. It stands indeed for the sustained effort of a body of men to express their individuality, out- side the influences of industrial ipacbipery. I say sustained, but this is and has been in the face of constant handicaps, that baye defeated our work, and scattered our traditions; the mere fact that our Press has been twice broken off and 43 Books dealing with the work apd ideals of tbc Guild. recorptpepced is ip itself evidence enough ! I would like rpy artist colleagues, often so intolerant of everything but Standard of excellence, to bear tbis in rpipd ; and to iny socialist friends, and rny business friends, wbo so often ignore tbc artists's purpose, for sorpetbipg that to tbein seerns greater, I would point out that we of the Guild of Handicraft set two things before us, Standard of work and Standard of life. In our ideal tbe two are inseparable; in so far we clairn to be burpapists in rpoderp industry; burpapists, rpay be, wbo have to work along tbe line of least resistence, and take what tbey can get. With tbe burpapistic productions of tbe Essex House Press I put also tbe little series of yellurn books— there were 14 of then?,— each containing one of the great poerps of the language,— and likewise the edition of Shakespeare's Poerps. Personally I would like to refer also to a little abortive effort to issue the poerps of Ben Jonson as a pendant to the Shakespeare. For sorpe of us these poerps are alrpost as great as those of Shakespeare, but the public— even our own lirpited apd enlightened public, would not respond. It has always beep the fate of this giant of English classics to be pot read, but ' talked op.' I pass pow to the books dealing with the work apd ideals of the Guild, a branch of the work of the Essex House Press that has always beep for rpe the rpost vital apd iptirpate, apd has beep the cause incidentally of its second rpost irpportapt production 'The Essex House Sopg Book.' Most of the books under this beading with I think Gw exception of the Sopg Book, are likely to be epbetperal, they were written to fulfil sorpe rporpeptary purpose, to explain, to preach, or to set forth sorpe idea, they are pope of tberp classics apd pot rpeapt to live. "Whether we put under this head the yarious addresses before the Carppdep School of Arts apd Crafts, or 'the Endeavour ip the Teachings of John Ruskip apd Williarp Morris,' 'the Last Records of a Cots wold Corprpupity' or the reprint of articles op the 'Work of the Guild,' they all have a connection with its constructive work, apd they are but as rportar ip the joints 44 of a greater rebuilding, or rather effort at rebuilding, i© The one exception is the Essex House Song Book, and this, after the Prayer Book of King Edward VII. is, in my opinion, the best book produced by the Press. We lost a great deal of mopey oyer it, as ope does op most of the good things; apd since the public, pot even our limited public, would touch it, the edition, after printing had already corpipepced, had to be cut down to 200 copies, apd eyep that was finally rerpaipdered. The book boweyer represents rpapy years of careful labour apd scholarship. It is a hurpap docurpept of soipe value, apd apart froip its rpusical apd literary quality it has a distinct educational purpose of its owp. It is quite possible that with the growth of that fiper civilization which we see fonpipg ip so ipapy places ip England apd Aiperica as a protest to the corppeti- tiop, the poise, the squalor apd the ipechapisip of modern life, the Guild Sopg Book ipay be reprinted. I should welcorpe a cheap edition, it would be a boon to tpapy sing- ers, apd the Essex House issue is pow practically impossible to get. To this book I will allude po further here as I ipade special reference to it ip the concluding chapter of 1 Crafts- ipapship ip Competitive Industry' © when I dealt with the future of the Guild as a fact apd as ap idea. The last of our Essex House Press issues have beep Books those upop which the Press has beep chiefly engaged during op the past two years, the books op Oriental subjects issued Oriental under the direction of Dr. A. K. Cooiparaswarpy* Of the Subjects books the chief is the history of ‘Medieval Sinhalese Art/ to sorpe of the blocks of which I haye already referred (pages 34 to 37). Ip foripat the same as the Prayer Book, this book is undoubtedly ope of the noblest of the Press productions apd ranks as a fine example of modern print- ing. It is a labour of love ip more senses than ope, the work of ap enthusiast ip fine printing as ip Craftsmanship, it is the work also of a map whose Eastern origin apd training, as well as his knowledge of tho West, makes it possible for >© which see, pages, 230 apd 23 1. 4 S him to take a wide view of the relation of East apd West, the impact of the ope upop the other. Dr. Cootparaswaipy^s history is pot oply a bistory of Ipdiap Craftsrpapsbip, it is also a critique of tbe Westerp view of life, of the Westerp copteippt for tbe fiper, ipore sepsitiye, ipore spiritual tbipgs. Tbe work shows up clearly apd ipercilessly tbe corrodipg ipffuepce of tbe West upop tbe civilizatiop of tbe East, while ip its aspiratiop for reforrp apd recopstructiop, it is keeply sympathetic with the Westerp rpoverpept kpowp as the Arts apd Crafts. Ip effect the book says— ‘here we have the very tbipg still goipg op ip Ceylop apd Ipdia, which you, bavipg destroyed, are pow cluipsily tryipg to recreate; ip the light of this fact, pot oply the Art of the West, but the social problems of the East peed recopsideripg . 7 ^ Like all the other Essex House Press productiops tbep, these orieptal books have a rpotiye for their publicatiop, they are copstructive. They also imply Stapdard, but Stapdard from apotber aspect, they imply a criticism of Westerp methods apd ideals by the East. ^ Dr. Coorparaswarpy sets this forth ip some of the rpipor publicatiops, issued from time to time while the big history was priptipg-ip 'The Deeper Meapipg of the Struggle 7 apd ip The Aims of Ipdiap Art . 7 The I bave beep at some paips to poipt to the idea that has idea ipspired, apd with the support of the public will I hope bebipd. still coptipue to ipspire, the work of the Essex House Press. I would like ip copclusiop to repeat the geperal questiop: What is the object or purpose of the ‘Private Press 7 ip our time? What cap it do? What are its lirpitatiops? What positiop ought it to occupy, apd how, if we admit the peed for it, is it to be rpaiptaiped ? ^ I use the word ‘Private Press 7 as defiped at the outset, viz.: of a press whose objective is first of all ap esthetic ope, a press that challenges support op the basis of Stapdard, that caters for a limited market, apd whose aim is pot the commercial developipept of priptipg by ipacbipery op a large scale, but of priptipg as ap art; whose object is to make of each book-pot merely a book, but ap artistic upit. 46 t© It will be seer) from all I have said that I do pot regard the priptipg by ipacbipery as distinct from priptipg by bapd to be tbe poipt of cleavage, bard apd fast, betweep tbe Commercial apd tbe Private Press. That is pot tbe real distipctiop. Tbe distipctiop is ope of degree apd of purpose. Macbipe pripted books cap be, apd oftep are, produced witb as ipucb beauty as bapd pripted books. I belieye I arp right ip sayipg that tbe books of tbe Vale Press were pearly all pripted by ipacbipery. Tbe distipctiop is ope of work~ shop orgapizatiop apd of fipapce. Tbe real differepce lies ip tbis, tbat it is pot wortb tbe while of the great Corprpercial Houses to pay coptipuously for the high skill, Stapdard apd experiipept peeded for efficieptly doipg the aesthetic work. Why should they do it ? The rpore keep the corppetitiop grows betweep the giapts, the rpore peed is there to strip off all useless accessories. Ip a fight for existepce the arpepities rpust go. t© At the sarpe tirpe it is impossible for the Private Press to coptipue doipg this work if it has also to adapt itself to the copditiops of the great corppetipg market} these are primarily the copditiops set by ipdustrial ipacbipery. The questiop resolyes itself ipto ope of orgapizatiop apd fipapce. t© How far the orgapisers of other Priyate Presses ip Epglapd The apd America see eye to eye with ipe I cappot say. It requires Future I tbipk ap iptirpate acquaiptapce with fhe copditiops of of the ipdustrial ipacbipery to grasp the logical copsequepces of Priyate fhe problem?— to realize where the uprestraiped developipept Press, of ipdustrial ipacbipery is leadipg us. To ipe fhe case has come clearer from tbe experiepce pot of a Press oply, but from the copduct of a putpber of differept workshops, ip all of which I have lost ipopey, to all of whom I baye acted as desigper, apd ip all of which the questiop of Stapdard was the first questiop. <©. Ip all of them? ip the workshop of the builder, the cabipet maker, the carver, the blacksmith? the silversmith? the jeweller or the pripter, I fipd the same tepdepey: the tepdepey of ipdustrial ipacbipery upder advapeed coippeti~ 47 tive conditions to destroy Standard, to limit human develop~ rt)ei)t, to check individuality, to discourage enterprise and invagination. A press is no exception to the rule. How then are we to remedy this? Who is to pay for the coptinous production of good work?— to take the case of the printers alone— as it does not pay the great printing bouses. All tbe really great works of Art are produced at a sacrifice, Tbe Kelmscott Cbaucer 1 did not pay/ Tbe Prayer Book of King Edward VII. Mid not pay/ It seems odd to bave to admit tbis wben at tbe time tbe vellum copies were still printing, for which tbe Press was to receive twenty ~-seven pounds, tbe retail price being forty pounds, tbey were changing bands for oyer three hundred pounds a copy; but book loyers fail to realize that the capricious prices they pay for books do not affect the producer,— except harmfully. t©- What the producer, the artist, before all things desires, is to be let alone, to be allowed to go on with bis work. He does not care to gamble in bis own productions, the one and only thing that interests him is the continuance of bis pro~ ductive work, and be is prepared to sacrifice a great deal in life and the requirements of life— in order to be allowed to go on with bis work. Book <©■ It is I think to the book lovers and book collectors— to Loyers people like the members of the Club of Odd Volumes,— to and the whom one is justified in making an appeal, that they should Artistic each individually study the problem, that they should not Tradi~ play into the bands of the Trade and countenance the tion* gambling which destroys printing traditions, that they should help individually and. collectively to lift the craft of printing off the Commercial plane— help the Priyate Presses to 1 continuity of tradition/ and perhaps most important of all help the artists by their countenance and encouragement to combine among themselves. There is room enough for taste, but little room in these days for 1 bread jealousy/ may be the latter is an unhappy and an inevitable result of of the keenness of the competition for such work as is left to the craftsman- But those who have the giving of the bread— the gepuipe book lovers-ipay at least giye it with copditiops that shall help the future of the craft. I have called this Essay a study ip Idealisrp; the craft of priptipg has always occupied a upique place, perhaps because of the power of tb e pripted word, apd because all the great pripters have beep Idealists. For ipy part I as ap artist look to a tirpe wbep the idealisip I aip preachipg shall pass daily through every effort of huipap creative activity. S 49 HE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCI- ATION OF THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT LTD. Printed for tbeSbarebolders of the Corppapy, a few copies op Essex House Press Paper. Caslop type. Quarto. 1898. THE TREATISES OF BENVENUTO CELLINI ON METAL WORK AND SCULPTURE. Translated frorp t!)e Italian of tl )e Marciap Codex by C. R. Asbbee, dedicated to Gw Metal Workers of the Guild of Handicraft, intended botb as a practical text book for craftsrpep, to wbicb epd Gw clicbets of Plop were inserted, apd also as a corppapiop book to John Addipgtop Syrpopds' translation of Gw Autobiography. 600 copies. Cloth cover. Caslop type. A few copies bound by Douglas Cockerell apd Miss Power. Quarto. 1898. 3 THE HYMN OF BARDAISAN. Rendered into English verse frorp the Syriac text by F. Crawford Burkitt. Caslop type, ip black apd red, with ap initial W by C. R. Asbbee, apd cut by W. Hooper. Paper boards. Sorpe of Gw copies bound by Douglas Cockerell apd Miss Power. 300 copies. t6rpo. 1899. 4 . JOHN BUNYAN’S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. Edited frorp the earliest editions by Japet E. Asbbee. Caslop type, ip black apd red. With a woodcut froptis- i 65 S. twdU o w r ^y\ A - . Ax piece by Reginald Sayage: ' Cbristiap ip tbe Slougb of Despopd. Boupd ip yellurp. Seyeral of One special bipd~ ipgs by Douglas Cockerell; sorpe— desigped by C. R. Asbbee, of tbe Pilgrirp witb load apd staff— by Miss Power; or ip boards witb tbe saipe desigp caryed ip bolly, rose, or ebopy, by Alec Miller. t6rpo. -]So copies. 1299. , r BEAUTY’S AWAKENING, A MASQUE OF WINTER AND SPRING. Pripted for tbe Art Workers’ Guild, ip Caslop type, 25 copies oply, op Essex House Paper, ipost of wbicb were priyately distributed. Tbe type was tbep electroed apd used for fhe special purpber of the 'Studio.’ Quarto. 1899. L SHELLEY’S ADONAIS. Tbe first of a series of great poerps of tbe lapguage, pripted op yellurp. Caslop type. Tbe ipitials rubricated. A wood~ cut block by C. R. Asbbee, cut by W. Hooper, apd coloured by bapd. 5o copies. Yelluip coyer desigped by C. R. Asbbee, witb a rose apd tbe rpark 'Soul is forrp.’ Crowp octayo. 1900. -7 RUSKIN AND MODERN BUSINESS. By Geo. Tborpsop of Huddersfield, repripted for tbe Author as a parppblet frorp tbe 'Spectator’ of February 17th, 1900. 5o copies. Caslop type. Srpall quarto. 1900. S SAINT MARY STRATFORD BOW. BY OSBORN C. HILLS. A rpopograpb pripted for tbe Lopdop Survey Corprpittee. Caslop type. Witb structural illustratiops by tperpbers of tbe Corpipittee. Browp paper wrapper. 25o copies. Quarto. 1900. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ACCORDING TO THE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL 66 COPIES, INCLUDING THE LYRICS, SONGS, AND SNATCHES FOUND IN HIS DRAMAS. Arranged apd collated by F. S. Ellis. Caslop type, red apd black, with a woodcut to ‘Vepus apd Adopis.’ by Reginald Sayage. 450 copies. Boupd ip vellurp wrappers. A few copies specially boupd by Douglas Cockerell apd Miss Power. Srpall 4to. 1900. (o THROUGH THE GATEWAY. A volurpe of poerps priyately pripted for tbe Author, Frapcis Williarp Bourdillop. 5o copies. Caslop type. Srpall octavo. Decerpber, 1900. If THE EVE OF ST. AGNES. BY JOHN KEATS. Tbe secopd of tbe great poerps series. Pripted ip Caslop type, op vellurp, rubricated. Woodcut by Regipald Sayage, bapd coloured. t25 copies. 1900. 12 . THE COURTYER OF COUNT BALDESSAR CAST- ILIO, DIVIDED INTO FOURE BOOKES, VERY NECESSARY AND PROFITABLE FOR YONGE GENTILMEN AND GENTILWOMEN ABIDING IN COURT, PALAICE OR PLACE, DONE INTO ENG- LYSHE BY THOMAS HOBY. Edited frorp tbe editio pripceps of t56t, by Japet E. Asbbee. Caslop type. 200 copies, boupd ip vellurp wrappers. A few copies specially boupd by Douglas Cockerell apd Miss Power. Srpall quarto. 1900. U JOHN HUNTER LEAVES ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL, OCTOBER i6tb, 1793. Beipg ap explapatory potice ip parppblet forrp of tbe picture bearipg tbis title, paipted by A. D. McCorrpick, R.B.A. Witb 2 cuts apd a photographic reproductiop of Gw picture. Priyately pripted for the Hospital Authorities, 1901. 67 /; M GRAY'S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. Ti >g third of the great poeips series. Caslop type, op yellurp apd rubricated. Froptispiece by George Tboipsop, cut by W. Hooper, apd bapd coloured. 12.5 copies. 1901. t' WALT -WHITMAN'S HYMN ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Tbs fourth of Gw great poeips series. Caslop type, op yelluip. With froptispiece apd series of blooipers desigped by C. R. Ashbee, cut by W. Hooper, apd bapd coloured. 125 copies. 1901. ft AN ENDEAVOUR TOWARDS THE TEACHING OF / v JOHN RUSKIN AND WILLIAM MORRIS, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK AND AIMS OF THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT, BY C. R. ASHBEE. This was the first book pripted ip the pica type desigped by C. R. Ashbee, apd kpowp as Gw ‘Epdeavour' type. The rpatrices were cut by E. Pripce. The set of woodcut ipitial bloorpers of various crafts apd Gw block of Essex House, Mile Epd Road, E., are by George Tboipsop. Ip Vellurp cover. A few specially boupd by Douglas Cockerell, £. Gree.v > ^ Miss Power, apd E. Greep. Octayo. 350 copies. *901. REPORT BY C. R. ASHBEE TO THE COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST AND NATURAL BEAUTY, ON HIS VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE COUNCIL'S BEHALF. OCTOBER, MDCCCC, TO FEBRUARY, MDCCCCI. Pripted ip 'Epdeavour' type, red apd black. 350 copies, of which 5 o oply were pripted op Essex House Press paper. The reipaipipg 300 were distributed ip the Upited States. Quarto. 1901. A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF 65 o £ H jX4-*~r ! 1 2o / JOHN WOOLMAN IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOSPEL. Printed op tbe guarantee of Mr. Jobp W. Pease apd other friends. Caslop type, red apd black. With a wood block drawr) apd cut by Reginald Sayage: *Jol)P Wooltpap reasopipg with the I^^keeper.' Vellun) coyer. A few specially boupd by Miss Power apd E. Greet). t6tpo. 25 o copies, tpot. THE PRAISE OF FOLIE. MORIAE ENCOMIUM: A BOOKE MADE IN LATIN BY THAT GREAT CLERKE ERASMUS ROTERODAME. ENGLISHED BY SIR THOMAS CHALONER KNIGHT. ANNO MDXLIX. Edited fron) the black letter editiot) of 1549 by Japet E. Asbkee. The woodcuts apd orpaipeptal borders by Williatp Strapg, apd cut by Berpard Sleigb. Caslop type. It has a parebipept coyer, ip ipotley, desigped by C. R. Asbbee. A few copies boupd by Miss Power apd E. Greep. Quarto. 2.5o copies. 1901. SOME FRUITS OF SOLITUDE IN REFLECTIONS AND MAXIMS, RELATING TO THE CONDUCT OF HUMAN LIFE, BY "WILLIAM PENN. Caslop type, red apd black. Froptispiece by T. Sturge Moore. Vellutpcover. AfewspeciallyboupdbyMissPower- apd E. Greep. i6rpo. 2 . 5 o copies. 19m. AMERICAN SHEAVES AND ENGLISH SEED CORN: BEING A SERIES OF ADDRESSES MAINLY DE- LIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES, 1900-1901, ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST AND NATURAL BEAUTY, BY C. R. ASHBEE. Pripted ip the ‘ Epdeayour 1 type, red apd black, coyer. A few boupd by Miss Power apd E. Greep. 300 copies. 1901. THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID FROM THE BIBLE OF ARCHBISHOP CRANMER. Edited, with the old orthography by Japet E. Ashbee. Printed ip the ‘ Epdeayour 7 type, red apd black, with wood- cut bloorpers to each psalrp,drawp by C. R. Ashbee, apd cut by W. Hooper. 2.5o copies op paper, to op yellurp. Lirpp greep yellurp coyer with silk ties. A few copies boupd by Miss Power. Quarto. 1901. THE EPITHALAMION OF SPENSER. The fifth of the great poerps series. Caslop type, red apd black, op yellurp. With froptispiece by Regipald Savage, bapd coloured. The writtep apd gilded letters by Miss Florepce Kipgsford. t5o copies. 1901. A LETTER FROM PERCY B. SHELLEY TO T. PEACOCK, JULY, MDCCCXVI. Priyately pripted for the owper of the MS. 45 copies op paper ip ‘Epdeavour type/ red apd black, covered ip grey cardboard, with 5 copies op yellurp, boupd by Douglas Cockerell. Octayo. 1901. THE OLD PALACE OF BROMLEY-BY-BOW, BY ERNEST GODMAN. Pripted for the Lopdop Suryey Corprpittee, with a pote by C. R. Ashbee, op the folly of destroyipg the old Palace. The drawipgs apd illustratiops are by E. Godrpap apd various tperpbers of the Survey Corprpittee. Caslop type. Ip browp paper wrappers. Quarto. 350 copies. 1902. THE DOINGS OF DEATH. A set of t2 woodcuts desigped by W. Strapg, apd cut by Berpard Sleigh. The priptipg is ip two colours. 140 copies oply pulled, apd the blocks destroyed. Essex House Press paper. The subjects are : ‘ Death apd the Childrep 7 : ‘ Death 70 tbe Kipg'; 'Death the Judged 'Death apd the Dapcers'; 'Death apd the Husbapdrpap'; 'Death apd the Robber'; 'Death the Leech'; 'Death op the Barricades'; 'Death apd the Artist'; 'Death the Lover'; 'Death the Comforter'; 'Death the Mourner.' Folio. 1902. ■ ? THE MASQUE OF THE EDWARDS OF ENGLAND? BEING A CORONATION PAGEANT TO CELEBRATE THE CROWNING OF THE KING, WRITTEN BY C. R. ASHBEE. The drawings are by Edith Harwood, apd have beet) ip part printed frorp stopes by Messrs. Sprague apd Co., apd ip part touched by hapd, while the yellurp copies are all paipted by Edith Harwood. The book is folio, pripted ip the 'Epdeavour' type. 300 copies, op grey O.W. paper, apd 20 copies op velluip. The subjects of the illustratiops respectively, are: 1. The Prolocutor apd the veiled cepturies ffipgipg the seed ipto the lap of the little Tweptieth Ceptury. 2. The Crowpipg of Edward the Copfessor. 3. The Crowpipg of Edward the First. 4. The Crowpipg of Edward the Secopd. 5. The Crowpipg of Edward the Third. 6. The Crowpipg of Edward the Fourth- 7. The Crowpipg of Edward the Fifth. 8. The Crowpipg of Edward the Sixth. 9. The Crowpipg of Edward the Seyepth. * THREE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVEFSOF. Privately pripted, for the owper of the MS. 54 copies op paper ip Caslop type, 6 op yellurp, the forrper ip cardboard coyers, the latter boupd by Miss Power ip white pig, with iplay frorp a desigp by C. R. Ashbee. Srpall quarto. 1902. n CHAUCER'S THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF. 7 l The sixth of the great poeips series. Caslop type, op vellurp. With froptispiece, two~page drawipg of the pageapt, apd oyer So drawipgs of orpaipeptal letters descriptive of the text, by Edith Harwood. t65 copies. 1902. 10 BURNS' TAM O' SHANTER. The seyepth of the great poeips series. Caslop type, red apd black, op yelluip. With froptispiece apd coloured ipitial W by W. Strapg: *Tarp apd the Lapdlady,' apd ‘Tan? pursued by Witch Meg.' The writtep apd gilded letters by Miss Florepce Kipgsford. t5o copies. 1902. 11 MILTON'S COMUS. The eighth of the great poerps series. Caslop type, pripted ip blue apd black, op vellurp. With froptispiece by Regipald Savage : * Coipus apd his revellers,' hapd~coloured. The writtep apd gilded letters throughout are by Miss Florepce Kipgsford. i5o copies. 1902. U THE SNOW LAY ON THE GROUND. A Christrpas Carol, the ipusic by Joseph Moorat, apd drawp with froptispiece apd borders by Paul Woodroffe. 8 pp. Pripted ip 'Epdeavour' type, for corpplirpeptary distributiop arpopg subscribers to the Essex House Press, 400 copies. Quarto. Christipas, 1902. 33 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SIR CHRISTOPHER vV WREN. FROM THE PAR ENT ALIA OR MEMOIRS BY HIS SON CHRISTOPHER. Edited by Erpest J. Epthovep, with 20 drawipgs by E. H. New, together with reproductiops of desigps, diagrarps, etc., froip the %75 o editiop. Ip stiff Irish blue lipep coyer. PA Caslop type. 25o copies. Quarto. 1903. Soipe of the drawipgs of the City Churches frotp this book baye beep subsequeptly issued with the perrpissiop of the Press by Edgar Greep. 72 & AUSGEWAEHLTE LIEDER HEINE'S. Edited by Edrpond Holrnes, with frontispiece drawn and cut by Reginald Savage: ‘The Lorelei and the drowning rnariner.' Printed in ‘ Endeavour' type, cardboard coyer. 25 o copies. 12 on yellurn. Of tbis book about too copies were destroyed by fire. Octayo. 1903. WORDSWORTH'S ODE ON THE INTIMATIONS OF OF IMMORTALITY. Tbe nibtb of tbe great poeins series. Caslon type, witb woodcut frontispiece by Walter Crane, coloured by band. Tbe gilded and painted letters are by Miss Power. i5o copies and all on yellurn. 1903. 3k THE GREAT HOUSE, LEYTON. By Edwin Gunn> Architect. A Monograph printed for fine London Suryey Cornrnittee. Caslon type, with illustrations by rnernbers of the Cornrnittee. 350 copies, of which 200 were reserved for the Cornrnittee. Brown paper wrapper. Quarto. 1903. *7 THE PRAYER BOOK OF KING EDWARD VII. Printed partly in the ‘Endeavour' type and partly in the great printer type, specially designed for the book by C. R. Asbbee, and now known as the ‘Prayer Book' type. The Beatrices were cut by E. Prince. The book is decorated with sorne i5o cuts and borders, designed by C. R. Asbbee, and engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper and Miss Clerpence Housrnan. In the preparation of sorne of the designs for the cutter, C. R. Asbbee was assisted by Catterson Srnitb. 400 copies bound in oak boards, with leather plaited binges and iron clasps; and nine copies on yellurn in white pig and i ... oak boards. In addition to these one copy was specially pulled for the King* Two special designs by C. R. Asbbee, one in white pig in high relief, and one in coloured leather, k 73 with tools of which the dies were cut by W. Hark, have also beer) prepared apd carried out by Miss Power, apd a few others have beep specially boupd by her. Srpall folio. 1903. jg A KEY TO THE PRINCIPAL DECORATIONS IN THE PRAYER BOOK OF KING EDWARD VII., AS DE- SIGNED AND CARRIED OUT BY C. R. Asbbee. Tbis \6 page parppblet was issued ip respopse to a derpapd for explapatiop of tbe syrpbolisrp, portraits, desigps, etc., ip tbe Prayer Book, wbicb it did pot seerp appropriate ip ip apy way to describe ip tbe book itself. ‘Epdeayour ’ type. Octayo. 1903. & SUPPLEMENT SHOWING VARIANTS FROM THE PRAYER BOOK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE PRAYER BOOK OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH. Forrpatsarpe as tbe Prayer Book, apd desigped to accorppapy it for Aipericap use. Sorpe witb tbe portrait of Presidept w xurft* Rooseyeldt ip tbe ipitial bloorper at tbe prayer for tbe Presidept, others blapk by request. 1903. 4 0 COLERIDGES RHYME OF THE ATCIETT MARIFER. The teptb book of the great poerps series, Caslop type, with woodcut froptispiece by W. Strapg. The gilded apd paipted letters by Miss Kipgsford. t5o copies, apd all op vellurp. 1903. A I MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG. A GOLDEN LEGEND. BY TOM HOOD. Pripted ip Caslop type. With woodcut froptispiece apd two other illustratiops by Regipald Sayage: ‘Her Fapcy Ball,’ ‘Her Cbristepipg,’ apd ‘Her Accidept.’ 200 copies with 4 op vellurp. Cardboard apd lipep back coyer. Octayo. 1904. 74 42 . THE ESSEX HOUSE SONG BOOK. A collection of some 200 representative songs of England together with their rpusic, frorn the Middle Ages to our own day. Edited by Janet E. Ashbee. The book is print- ed in 1 Endeavour’ type, black and red, and issued in separate sheets. The various sheets of songs are classified in separate green linen portfolios as follows : Part I. Songs of Praise. Part II. Songs of the Sea. Part III. Songs of Loyalty and the Love of the Land. Part IV. Rounds and Catches. Part V. Songs of the Country and the Tilling of fhe Soil. Part VI. Songs of Sport. Part VII. Songs of fhe Tavern and the Vine. Part VIII. Workshop Songs or Songs of fhe Crafts. Part IX. Songs of Comradeship, Loye, and Courtship* Part X. Miscellany of Song, in which are included. Songs of -One Universities and Songs of Pure Nonsense. Some bound with yellurp backs. 200 copies printed, with 5 on vellum* Small Q-uarto. 1904. SHELLEY'S PROMETHEUS UNBOUND. Printed in ‘ Prayer book' type, red and black. With a frontispiece by C. R. Ashbee cut by W. H. Hooper. 200 copies on paper, 20 on yellum* Bound in limp vellum with green silk ties. 1904. M REPRINT OF AN ARTICLE BY F. ALLEN WHITING IN ‘HANDICRAFT,' OCTOBER, 1903. BOSTOT, MASS., ON THE WORK OF THE GUILD. Printed in Caslon type, with six drawings of Carppden by Edmund H. New, and a cut of old Essex House in Bow by Geo. Thomson* 5o on Essex House paper, others for general distribution. Crown 8y o. March, 1904. (4T REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE CAMPDEN SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, 1903-4. A 24-pase pamphlet drawn tip for the Trustees and for 75 presentation to the Gloucester County Council. Caslon type, not on paper with Essex House Press inark. For distribution in fhe locality. Octavo. 1904. aQ) a may-day interlude. Written by Gerald Bisbop for fine Carnpden children, and first played by then? under tbe direction of Mrs. C. R. Asbbee, at Whitsuntide 1904, in 'One open inarket place, of which a cut by Edrnund New is given on the outer sheet, yrst Pte Printed in Caslon type, 5 oo copies for distribution in fhe village. 24 copies on Essex House paper, of which a few baye been bound by Miss Power. 1904. Orel . 47 CONSCIENCE. A two-coloured block, printed for Mr. Bernard Sleigh, by wborn the block was designed and cut. A few pulls only and all on Essex House Press paper. Folio. 1904. 48 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ESSEX HOUSE PRESS, WITH NOTES ON THE DESIGNS, BLOCKS, CUTS, BINDINGS, Sc., FROM THE YEAR t 3 9 8 to t904. This painphlet— 24 pages— was prepared for an exhibition of the work of the Press in 1904, and was not a conjplete record of all the publications. It has now been superceded by the present voluine, which giyes these in full up to fine year of issue. It contains 9 cuts, and is printed in 1 Endeavour' type. 25 o copies, of which 5 o are on Essex House Press paper. 1904. CICERO’S DE AMICITIA OR BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP. This is in the Latin of Cicero, with the original English of Sir John Harry ngton— the 'Book of F reendesbip ’—set opposite, page for page. The work is edited by E. D. Ross and contains two blocks designed by C. R. Asbbee and cut by Alec Miller. Printed in black and red, in 76 1 Endeavour ' type, yellurp wrapper. i 5 o copies apd to op yellurp. 1904. THE LAST RECORDS OF A COTS WOLD COMMUNITY. BEING THE WESTON SUBEDGE FIELD ACCOUNT BOOK FOR THE FINAL TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF THE FAMOUS COTSWOLD GAMES, HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED, AND NOW EDITED WITH A STUDY ON THE OLD TIME SPORTS OF CAMPDEN AND THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY OF WESTON. By C. R. Ashbee. There is a preface by Sidpey Webb apd ap appepdix by Professor W. S. Hewips. The book coptaips yarious cuts of Carppdep apd of Dover's Hill by Edipupd New, also a rpap of the opep fields, apd ap old cut frorp the Appalia Dubrepsia. 'Epdeavour' type. 225 copies, of which ~/S are op Essex House paper. Boupd ip buckrarp, the rest ip grey boards. Octayo. 1904. 57 DRYDEN'S ALEXANDER'S FEAST. The eleveptb book of the great poerps series, Caslop type, with woodcut froptispiece by Regipald Sayage. The gilded apd paipted letters are by Miss Kipgsford. 140 copies, apd all op vellurp. 1904. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY LORD REDESDALE, K.C.V.O., C.B., ON THE OPENING OF THE NEW BUILDINGS OF THE CAMPDEN SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS. A t2~page parppblet, with a cut by Edtpupd New, pripted ip Caslop type for the Author, op Essex House Press paper, cloth boards. 5 o copies oply. 1904. $ i THE IMITATION OF CHRIST BY THOMAS A KEMPIS. Edited by Erpest Godrpap frorp the earliest Epglish traps- latiops. Of the four books the first three are frorp that of Thorpas Rogers, t 55 o, the fourth frorp that of the Lady 77 Margaret Countess of Ricbipopd, apd printed by Wypkip de Worde ip i 5 o^. The book coptaips bloorpers apd also 2 woodcuts apd bapd~coloured decoratiops, drawp by C. R. Asbbee, apd cut by Alec Miller, represeptipg Rogers tbe Puritap Divipe apd tbe Lady Margaret. It is boupd ip browp calf witb tabs apd pripted ip tbe Kipg's Prayer Book Type op Essex House Press paper, too copies apd to op yellurp. Large Octayo. 1904. f4 GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAGE. Tbe twelfth book of the great poerps series. Caslop type witb woodcut froptispiece by C. R. Asbbee. Tbe illurpipated letters by Miss Kipgsford apd Miss Power. t5o copies apd all op Yellurp. 1904. ST THE ILLUMINATORS. By Carolipe Hazard, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D. A poerp read at tbe ipstallatiop of tbe Eta Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society ip Massachusetts, at Wellesley College, Japuary 17th, 1905, privately pripted for the Authoress. The ipitial apd borders are by C. R. Asbbee. Tbe book is ip three colours, pripted ip the 1 Prayer Book' type. t5o copies. Quarto. August, 1905. AN OCTET OF SONNETS. Privately pripted as a Cbristrpas greetipg for the Author F. A. Hyett of Paipswick House, a cut of which by Edrpupd New is op the title page. 5o copies. Srpall octayo. *905. 77 NORMAN ARCHITECTURE IN ESSEX. By Erpest Godrpap, Architect, Secretary of the Corprpittee for the Suryey of the Merporials of Greater Lopdop. There are photographic illustratiops apd also drawipgs by A. E. 78 Nutter, S. Newcornbe, J. S. Collings, W. H. Godfrey, A. Wom>ersley, and by the Author. The frontispiece is an etching of Waltham? Abbey by Jessie Godrnan- Caslon type. 300 copies. Octayo. 1905. S t MEDIAEVAL ARCHITECTURE IN ESSEX. By Ernest Godipan, Architect, Secretary of the Cornrr)ittee for the Suryey of the Mernorials of Greater London. There are photographic illustrations and also drawings by S. Newcoipbe, S. E. Castle, E. G. Steyenson, A. E. Nutter, and by the Author, the frontispiece is an etching of Laindon Church by Jessie Godipan. 2.5o copies. Caslon type. Octayo. 1905. A CYCLE OF SONNETS. By L. Nightingale. Printed for the Authoress. z 5 o copies. Caslon type, not on Essex House paper. Srpall octayo. 1905. REPORT OF THE WORK OF THE CAMPDEN SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS. 1904-1905. With a block by Edrpupd New, not on Essex House paper. Octayo. 1905. £»/ TENNYSON'S MAUD. The thirteenth book of the great poenjs series. Caslon type with woodcut frontispiece by Laurence Housrnan and Reginald Sayage in collaboration, and cut by Clernence Housrnan, the illuminated letters by Miss Power. \z 5 copies, and all on yellurn. 1905. THE SECOND ADDRESS OF LORD REDESDALE, K.C.V.O., C.B., AT THE CAMPDEN SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS DELIVERED AT THE OPEN- ING OF THE WINTER SESSION. A t6~page parnphlet, with a cut by Edrnund New. Caslon type, not on Essex House Press paper, doth boards, printed 79 Sr iMHMS with perrpissiop of the Author for the benefit of the School. 1905. Ll BROWNING'S FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS. The fourteeptb book of the great poerps series. Caslop type, with woodcut froptispiece by Paul Woodroffe. The illuipipated letters by Rayrpopd Bipps. 125 copies, apd all op yelluip. 1905. U) ECHOES FROM THE CITY OF THE SUN. A book of poeips apd sopgs by C. R. Asbbee. Three cuts by the Author. Pripted ip ‘Epdeayour' type op Essex House Press paper. Grey Boards. 25 o copies, apd ope op yellurp. t9o5. U THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM OF FAISHAPUR. Edward Fitzgerald's Trapslatiop frorp the first repderipg. This is the Orpar Kbayyarp Club Editiop pripted specially for the Club ip the 1 Prayer Book' type. It has ap iptro~ ductiop by Clerpept K. Shorter with a letter frorp Algerpop Charles Swipburpe. The froptisplece apd the ipitial border are desigped by C. R. Asbbee. Boupd ip greep leather with silk tabs. 85 copies op Essex House Press paper apd 17 op yellurp. Octavo. 1905. U A MORNYNG REMEMBRAUNCE, had at the rpopetb rpipde of the poble prypees Margarete Couptesse of Ricb~ rpopde apd Darbye, rpoder upto Kypge Hepry the Sevepth, apd grapdarpe to our Soveraigp Lorde that pow is upop whose Sope Alrpigbtye God have rpercy. Corppiled by the Reverepd Fader ip God, Jobap Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. This is a repript frorp the origipal issue of Wypkyp de Worde. It has a froptispiece by C. R. Asbbee of the Lady Margaret. Pripted ip black apd red, ip the 1 Prayer Book' type. Yellurp coyer. t 25 copies apd 7 op Yellurp. Srpall 5 o > octavo. 1906. % REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE CAMPDEN SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, 1905-1906. With a block by Edipupd New, apd a rpap of the district, coloured by bapd. Not op Essex House paper. Octavo. 1906. {■ MENDICANT RHYMES. By Laurepce Housipap. A volurpe of verse pripted ip the ‘Epdeayour* type. Not op Essex House Press paper. Ip grey boards velluip backed. Octavo. 1906. A BOOK OF COTTAGES AND LITTLE HOUSES: FOR LANDLORDS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS AND OTHERS, WITH SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE COST, THE HOUSING DIFFICULTY, AND THE IMPROVE- MENT OF TASTE IN THESE MATTERS. By C. R. Asbbee. Pripted ip Caslop type. The book coptaips sorpe seyepty illustratiops of bouses built or restored by tbe Author ip differept Epglisb Coupties, arpopg these are cuts by C. R. Asbbee, F. Griggs, Edipupd New, E. Godipap, E. G. Stevepsop, apd Geo. Cbettle. Boupd ip white buckraip apd greep doth. 25o copies of which 5o are op Essex House paper. Octayo. 1906. O SOCIALISM AND POLITICS: A STUDY IN THE READJUSTMENT OF THE VALUES OF LIFE. By C. R. Asbbee, with ap ipitial cut desigped by the Author. Pripted ip Caslop type. Ip grey boards with yelluip back. Not op Essex House Press paper. Octavo. 1906. 7/ THE PICTURE OF KEBES THE THEBAN. Beipg a trapslatiop of the oply extapt writipg of Kebes, disciple of Pbilolaus and friend of Socrates: Translated 1 st (z* V 0T»( . JJCvpif R EG cioCU. ETgi by Hugh E. Seebobtp, apd printed for bin? at the Essex House Press. Caslop type, grey boards, pripted ip black apd red. 5 o copies oply. Srpall octayo. igo 6 . 72) ON THE NEED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COUNTRY SCHOOLS OF ARTS AND CRAFTS. By C. R. Asbbee beipg a repript of tbe Educatiopal Chapter ip bis Book of Cottages, together with further illustratiops. Pripted ip paippblet forrp, 36 pages. Caslop type. Not op Essex House Press paper. Browp paper or cloth wrapper. 1906. 7 ? DR. JOHNSON, AN ESSAY BY ARCHIBALD RAM AGE. Caslop type, too copies, pot op Essex House Press paper, issued ip white cloth boards, with a froptispiece by Alec Miller. 1906. A TALE OF OLD AND NEW JAPAN, BEING A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, NOVEMBER 14th, 1906, BY LORD REDESDALE, K.C.V.O., K.C.B. Privately pripted for the writer. Not op Essex House Press paper. Caslop type. 5 o copies. Octayo. t9o6. 7 r THE DEEPER MEANING OF THE STRUGGLE. A 24~page paippblet by Apapda K. Coorparas waipy . Caslop type. 1,075 copies. Octavo. 1907. % THE AIMS OF INDIAN ART. A 24~page essay by Apapda K. Coorparaswaipy, with a photogravure plate (Nataraja). Caslop Type. 275 copies of which 5 o are op Essex House Press paper, apd 2 op yelluip. Grey wrappers or Kelipscott boards. Quarto. 1908. 82 (y? CONRADIN: A PHILOSOPHICAL BALLAD. By C. R. Asbbee. 6 full-page pictures by Philippe A. Mairet. Printed ip the Kipg’s Prayer Book type op Essex House Paper. Kelrpscott boards. 25o copies with t op yellurp. Octavo. 1908. >1 THE TWO PAINTERS. By A. K. Coorparaswarpy. A i6~page parppblet. 30 copies op Essex House paper apd ope op velluip. 1908. ? s) 779 ERNST LUDWIG-PRESSE. Shakespeare. Sonette. Leipzig, Insel (1909), Or.-Umschl. / 35, — Ubertragen v. Ed. Saenger. Jubil.-Ausg. 1609-1909. 6. Druck d. Ernst Ludwig Pr. Schoner 2farb. Druck auf Old Stratford-Butten. Umschlag unfrisch, innen gut. Sark. 1598. 780 — . Groth. Kl. Quickborn: Volksleben in plattdeutschen Gedichten dit- marscher Mundart. Leipzig, Insel 1912, Or.-Hperg. / 90,— 318 S. 16. Buch d. Ernst Ludwig-Pr. 500 Expl. 781 — . (Thukydides.) Rede des Perikles fur die Gefallenen. (Darmstadt, Ch. H. Kleukens 1921). Or.-Hperg. / 40,— 10 Bl. In kleiner Aufl. gedruckt. Bd. teilweise verblichen, sonst gut. 782 — . Dasselbe in Pergament-Handbd. m. durchgezogenen Biinden, Riicken u. Schaudeckel kalligraphisch handbeschriftet. f 100, — 783 ERNST LUDWIG PRESSE. Goethe. Faust. (Tl. . u. 2). 2 Bde. in 1. Darmstadt 1922-23. 4°, Or.-HSaffian. / 250, — 214, 323 S. Eine der typographisch schonsten deutschen Faustausgaben. Rodenberg 81. Wid- mung auf Vorsatz, Deckel etwas berieben, sonst sehr gut. 784 — . Dasselbe. Tl. 1. Schweinsleder-Handbd. (Schnabel). f 175, — Schoner Einbd. m. Blinddruck a. Riicken, Deckeln u. Innenkanten, handumstoch. Kaptal. 785 — . Riickert, Fr. Lieder und Spriiche der Minnesinger. (Darmstadt, Kleu- kens 1924), Or.-Pp. f 50, — Unpag. 300 num. Expl. Vorsatz m. eigenhand. Namenseintrag Heinrich Jost. 786 — . (Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig.) Die Grosstat der Letter. (Darmstadt, Ch. H. Kleukens 1930.) 4°, Or.-Umschl. f 20, — 6 Bl. Fur die Teilnehmer d. Bibliophilen-Tagung in Bremen gedruckt. 787 — . Ladewig, P. Dantes Vita Nova bei Goethe. ([Darmstadt], Ch. H. Kleukens 1934.) Or.-Umschl. / 35, — 25 S. In 200 Expl. gedruckt. DIE GRENADIERE. ACH Frankreicb zogen zwei Grenadier’, r t Die warGr ? iP Russlarjd gefangen* ) Urjd als sie kan?en ins deutsebe Quartier, Sie liessen die Koepfe bangen- 788 ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. Heine. Ausgewahlte Lieder. (Camden 1903), verzierter Saffian-Handbd. / 400, — 42 S. Sehr schoner Druck in 250 num. Expl. auf Biitten, hrsg. v. E. Holmes, m. Titelkupfer v. R. Savage u. vielen Initialen (alles in Jugenstil). Hervorragender Einband m. Kastenver- goldung a. d. Riicken, Linienvergoldung auf den Deckeln, breiter Innenkanten- sowie Steh- kantenvergoldung und Seidenvorsatz. Tadelloses Expl. ABBILDUNG OBEN. 789 FEININGER. Dreyer, M. Das Tal des Lebens. Histor. Schwank in 4 Aufz. 9.-11. Tsd. Ulus. Or.-Umschl. / 150, — 155 S. 9 lllustr. u. Umschl. v. Lyonel Feininger. Unbeschnitten. 65 *§£ 790 FREYTAG, GUSTAV. Die verlorene Handschrift. 2 Bde. Berlin, Knaur 1923, 4°, Or.-Ln. / 25, — 448; 411 S. mit 40 Or.-Lithos v. OTTO H. ENGEL. Vorsatze stockfleckig, sonst gut. 791 GEIGER, WILLI. Huysmans, J.-K. Gilles de Rais. Berlin, Gurlitt 1919, 4°, Or.-Hpgt. mit Seidendeckeln u. Schliessen. / 120, — 40 S. mit 16 ORIG.-LITHOS v. Geiger. (Der Venuswagen 9). 700 num. Expl. auf Biitten. Druckvermerk u. 1 . Litho von Geiger SIGNIERT. Gutes Expl. im Or.-Schuber. 792 GESCHICHTEN UM MITTERNACHT. Eine Reihe phantastischer Er- zahlungen. Hrsg. v. K. H. Strobl. Wien [usw.], Ges. f. Graph. Industrie (1923). Or.-Bde. a) Poe, E. A. Auswahl seiner Erzahlungen. 179 S., 16 Bildtaf. v. St. Eggeler. Hied. (Rucken berieben). ^20 b) Villiers de l isle Adam. Auswahl seiner Erzahlungen. 173 S. Illus. v. Chr. L Martin. Or.-Ln. / 15, — 793 GOLDSCHMITT. Schiller. Wilhelm Tell. Miinchen, (Schroder) 1922, gr. 4°, Perg.-Handband. f 180, — 128 S. m. 17 Orig.-Holzschnitten v. Goldschmitt. (Meisterwerke d. Welti it. m. Orig.-Graphik, 6.) VORZUGS-AUSGABE Nr. 1-100 (Gesamtaufl. 520 Expl.), jeder Holzschnitt sowie der Druck- vermerk SIGNIERT. Schoner Druck auf Biitten, Handeinband mit durchgezogenen Biinden u. mit Rucken- u. Stehkantenvergoldung, signiert Knorr & Hirth. 794 — . Die Offenbarung Sankt Johannis. Hellerau, Avalun 1923, gr. 4°, Kalbleder-Handbd. u. Hlnmappe. / 300, — Unpag. 33. Avalun-Druck. Sehr schoner Druck v. Hegner in einer urn 1650 geschnittenen Luther-Fraktur. VORZUGS-AUSGABE Nr. 1-180 (Gesamtausg. 450 Expl.) mit einer Mappe mit 2 Folgen d. Holzschnitte, unkoloriert u. koloriert. Alle Holzschnitte in Mappe u. Buch SIGNIERT. Schoner Handband v. Demeter m. Deckel-, Riicken-, Steh- und Innenkantenver- goldung. In Schuber. 795 GRIMMELSHAUSEN. Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus. 3 Bde. Leipzig, Insel 1908. Or.-Pgt. f 100, — XVI, 295; 270; 393 S. Einl. v. R. Buchwald. 4 lllustr. v. Max Klinger. Titel u. Einbd. v E. R. Weiss. Sark. 632. 796 GROSSMANN, RUD. Dostojewski, F. M. Eine dumme Geschichte. Miinchen, Marees-Ges. 1918, illus. Or.-Pp. / 70, 102 S. (5. Dr. d. Marees-Ges.). 37 (18 ganzseit.) Orig.-Lithos u. Umschlag-Litho v. Gross- mann. 200 num. Expl. Unaufgeschitten. 797 GROSZ. Mac Orlan, P. Port d’eaux-mortes. Paris, Au sans pareil 1926, biauer Or.-Umschl. / 600, — 88 S. mit 8 OR.-LITHOS von Grosz. Lang 48. 1220 num. Expl. Eines der selteneren Bucher mit Grosz-lllus. 798 — . Die Gezeichneten. 60 Blatter aus 15 Jahren. 1.-8. Tsd. Berlin, Malik (1930), 4°, illus. Or.-Kt. / 140 , — 126 S., 60 ganzseitige lllustr. 1. AUSG. Lang 55. Gutes Expl. — . s. Nr. 235, 463, 549. 799 GRUNER. (Wackerbarth, A.) Morgenblicke in der Leipziger Allee. Berlin, Langhoff 1793. (Neudruck Leipzig, Ges. d. Bibliophilen 1926.) Or.- p P- / 27,50 42 S. Nachwort v. E. Ebstein. 5 farb. Orig.-Lithos v. Erich Gruner. 350 num. Expl. 66 I X'