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Auction archive: Lot number 1123

Hornby, C. H. St John. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at...

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,585 - US$2,377
Price realised:
£2,200
ca. US$4,359
Auction archive: Lot number 1123

Hornby, C. H. St John. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at...

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,585 - US$2,377
Price realised:
£2,200
ca. US$4,359
Beschreibung:

Hornby, C. H. St John. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at The Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV - MCMXXXV, number 385 in a signed edition of 390 copies. Chelsea, Shelley House, 1935. Tipped in library label of C. H. St John Hornby, tipped in letter from Sydney Cockrell, two loosely inserted letters from Viola Maynell, a copy of Sydney Cockerell's obituary of Hornby for The Spectator loosely inserted, plus a three page manuscript draft of the Subscribers Notice for the Work loosely inserted. Brown pigskin, folio. 'This book, the last from the Ashendene Press, was printed at Shelley House, Chelsea, by C. H. St J. Hornby with the help of A. J. Fisk, compositor, and H. Gage-Cole, pressman, and was finished in the month of February, 1935, forty years after the date of the first book printed at the Press.'

Auction archive: Lot number 1123
Auction:
Datum:
23 Apr 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Hornby, C. H. St John. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at The Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV - MCMXXXV, number 385 in a signed edition of 390 copies. Chelsea, Shelley House, 1935. Tipped in library label of C. H. St John Hornby, tipped in letter from Sydney Cockrell, two loosely inserted letters from Viola Maynell, a copy of Sydney Cockerell's obituary of Hornby for The Spectator loosely inserted, plus a three page manuscript draft of the Subscribers Notice for the Work loosely inserted. Brown pigskin, folio. 'This book, the last from the Ashendene Press, was printed at Shelley House, Chelsea, by C. H. St J. Hornby with the help of A. J. Fisk, compositor, and H. Gage-Cole, pressman, and was finished in the month of February, 1935, forty years after the date of the first book printed at the Press.'

Auction archive: Lot number 1123
Auction:
Datum:
23 Apr 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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