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Essex House Press.- Erasmus (Desiderius) The Praise of Folie. Moriae encomium, translated by Sir Thomas Chaloner, number 49 of 250 copies, wood-engraved pictorial borders, plates and illustrations by Bernard Sleigh after William Strang bound in claret morocco, gilt, covers with double gilt rule border with three small dots in corners, upper cover with panel incorporating title interspersed with small leafy sprays in gilt, spine titled and dated in gilt with five raised bands, signed "19 AP 02" at foot of rear turn-in, g.e., slightly rubbed at edges, spine a little faded, 1901 § [Shelley (P.B.)] Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama, number 63 of 200 copies on paper, printed in red and black in Prayer Book type, woodcut frontispiece by C.R.Ashbee, inscribed "Olwen Ward from Archibald Y.Campbell 21 August 1908" on front free endpaper, original limp vellum with ties, yapp edges, covers slightly splaying, 1904, 4to, both printed at the Essex House Press (2) ⁂ Probably bound by Anastasia "Annie" Power, who worked as a binder for the Essex House Press in London and Chipping Campden, although the design has more in common with those of Alice Pattinson. Both were pupils of Douglas Cockerell and signed their bindings with a monogram "AP". See Tidcombe Women Bookbinders plate 44 & figure 129. Olwen Ward Campbell published Shelley and the Unromantics in 1924 and edited a selection of Shelley's verse in 1925.