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(ASHENDENE PRESS.) Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated into English by Benjamin Jowett, M.A. Late Master of Balliol College and Regius, Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford. Printed in red and black from Ptolemy and Blado Italic type with initials designed by Graily Hewitt, shoulder notes in red. Folio, original full white pigskin by W.H. Smith & Son (signed), 7 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3 compartments; usual mild natural discoloration to covers and edges, internally clean. Chelsea, 1930
one of 260 unnumbered copies on paper and the last folio printed by the great press. The elegant side notes are printed in red Blado Italic and Hewitt's initials are from the alphabet designed by Eric Gill for "Utopia," 1906. Laid in is a typed letter signed by Leslie Chaundy, director of booksellers Dulau and Company, Ltd, London, dated 6 March, 1931, to their client and first owner of this copy, J. W. Hancock (of Roanoke, Va.), sharing St. John Hornby's announcement that this was to be the final large folio publication of the press and to reserve a copy immediately. As dates in Ashendene colophons refer to printing, not binding, the letter reflects its actual appearance in spring of 1931 though it had been printed in August 1930--Franklin, The Ashendene Press, page 186; see also 242; Ashendene Bibliography 37.
