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8. ASHENDENE PRESS. Vita Di Santa Chiara Vergine Composta per Ugolino Verino Cittadino Florentino. Reprinted from the original Manuscript with an Introduction and Notes by Walter W. Seton. Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press. 1921.
£598
8vo., original limp vellum with silk ties, printed in red and black with initials designed by Graily Hewitt printed in blue. Collotype facsimiles of the first two leaves of the original manuscript bound after the introduction. A very good copy.
One of 236 copies printed on handmade paper (there were also 10 printed on vellum). The original manuscript of this life of Saint Clare, which is printed here for the first time, was purchased by C.H.. St John Hornby, owner of the Ashendene Press at the Vernon Sale at Sotheby’s in 1918. The manuscript was written by Ugolino Verino, a Florentine poet of some note in 1496, and prior to its identification by the Franciscan scholar Walter Seton in 1919 had been lost for over 300 years. The results of of Seton’s study of the manuscript are summarised in the introduction and notes to this volume.
9. ASHENDENE PRESS. SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Disposed into Twelue Bookes Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues. Ashendene Press. 1923.
£3,500
Folio, original brown leather backed vellum boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Text printed in red blue and black, with initials in red and blue. A little occasional spotting, otherwise a very good copy.
Limited edition of 180 numbered copies printed on paper. An additional 10 were printed on vellum. The Ashendene Spenser was printed in two columns of Subiaco type on the largest Batchelor paper made at the time, with a new “knight in armour” watermark. The book took almost two years of the Press’ time, from January 1922 to November 1923. Sydney Cockerell commented that the book was better off without illustrations, emphasising its typographical excellence. (Ashendene Bibliography XXXII; Franklin pp. 103, 143-144).
10. ASHENDENE PRESS. A Hand-list of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV-MCMXXV. The Ashendene Press. 1925.
£148
8vo., original printed blue wrappers. Printed in red and black. A fine copy.
Limited edition of about 400 copies. With full descriptions of all books and most of the “items” issued up to the end on 1925 and also announcing that Don Quixote is in preparation.
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