£250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 630
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
London: Essex House Press, woodblocks and typeface by C.R. Ashbee, printed by Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswood, London, 1903 [1904]. Folio, number 233 of 400 copies, printed in red and black in Endeavour and Prayer Book types, woodcut illustrations, initials and ornaments by W. Hooper and Clemence Housman after C.R.Ashbee, original calf-backed oak boards with metal clasps with stamp to inside of lower board "Bound by Eyre & Spottiswoode", rubbed, upper board detached, lacking the metal rings that were formerly part of the clasps