Apr 30, 2008 10:00 EST
Books and Prints
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ASHENDENE PRESS
The wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach, commonly called Ecclesiaticus. Shelley House, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1932. One of 25 copies printed on vellum, (and 328 paper copies). The issue binding of full brick red morocco by W. H. Smith & Son [under the direction of Douglas Cockerell], front cover lettered with the title, press, and date all within gilt rules; green silk headbands, vellum pastedowns. 11 1/8 inches (28 cm), all edges rough gilt. Title leaf, 182 pp., printed in the Press's Subiaco typeface with chapter headings and shoulder notes in red. The vellum copies have chapter initials in laid gold, as well as hand-drawn initials in green and blue, by Graily Hewitt, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley. Some minor offset from the leather doublures to the free endsheets. The book is housed in a later slipcase.
A magnificent piece of printing on animal vellum, illuminated throughout. This is generally considered the most colorful (and among the most successful) of all the books of the Ashendene Press. Hornby Ashendene Press Bibliography 38.
Provenance: with the Rockwell Kent designed bookplate of Dexter Cook and Ruth S. Brokaw.
Sold for $13,750
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
ASHENDENE PRESS
The wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach, commonly called Ecclesiaticus. Shelley House, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1932. One of 25 copies printed on vellum, (and 328 paper copies). The issue binding of full brick red morocco by W. H. Smith & Son [under the direction of Douglas Cockerell], front cover lettered with the title, press, and date all within gilt rules; green silk headbands, vellum pastedowns. 11 1/8 inches (28 cm), all edges rough gilt. Title leaf, 182 pp., printed in the Press's Subiaco typeface with chapter headings and shoulder notes in red. The vellum copies have chapter initials in laid gold, as well as hand-drawn initials in green and blue, by Graily Hewitt, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley. Some minor offset from the leather doublures to the free endsheets. The book is housed in a later slipcase.
A magnificent piece of printing on animal vellum, illuminated throughout. This is generally considered the most colorful (and among the most successful) of all the books of the Ashendene Press. Hornby Ashendene Press Bibliography 38.
Provenance: with the Rockwell Kent designed bookplate of Dexter Cook and Ruth S. Brokaw.
Auction: Books and Prints, Apr 30, 2008
