Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(ASHENDENE PRESS.) Hornby, Charles Harry St. John. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV - MCMXXXV. Printed in red, black, and some blue. Collotype and photogravure illustrations by Emery Walker, Ltd., initials by Graily Hewitt, press specimens, examples of woodcuts, facsimile pages, printers' marks, some printed in colors. Folio, full polished calf gilt, front cover blocked in gilt with publisher's device, spine gilt-lettered, slightly rubbed at ends and very slightly but evenly faded; top edges gilt, others uncut and toned; pastedowns and endleaves with some offsetting from binding glue; errata slip tipped in and two loose "Additional Errata" slips laid in at end, scarce prospectus (with three vertical fold creases) laid in; marble paper-covered board slipcase. number 186 of 390 copies signed by hornby and the last book to be printed by the press. Hornby XL. Chelsea, 1935