ESSEX HOUSE PRESS PUBLICATIONS.
MR. EDWARD ARNOLD has much pleasure in calling attention to the fact that almost without exception these interesting books have all been bought up and become out of print before publication, while one or two that have found their way into the sale-rooms have commanded a high premium.
These books are printed at Essex House, on the presses used by the late Mr. William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, which were purchased by the Guild of Handicraft. Members of Mr. Morris's staff are also retained at the Essex House Press, and it is the hope of the Guild of Handicraft by this means to continue in some measure the tradition of good printing and fine workmanship which William Morris revived.
Subscribers to the complete series of Essex House Publications are given priority for any new book issued, and the number of subscribers is constantly increasing.
Among the volumes expected to be published during the coming season are the following:
ERASMUS' Praise of Folly. SIR THOMAS CHALLONER'S Translation (Elizabethan). With a set of illustrations, borders, frontispiece, and initial by WILLIAM STRANG, and a cloth cover in motley by C.R. ASHBEE. 250 copies. £3 3s.
The Psalms of David. This book will be in the new type with a fresh set of historiated 'bloomers' designed by C.R. ASHBEE. 250 copies.
American Sheaves and English Seed Corn. Essays and Addresses by C.R. ASHBEE.
The Essex House Song Book will be issued in about 100 folio sheets, three or four songs coming on to the sheet of four pages. The sheets will be printed red and black in the new type, with wood-cut embellishments, and uniform in size with the Essex House 'Shakespeare.' Three hundred copies only will be issued, of which 100 are reserved in the first instance for America. The sheets will be published in batches of about ten sheets at a time, at a cost of 1s. a sheet, and over a period of two or three years. Subscriptions can only be received for the whole work, payable as the sheets are ready for delivery. Subscribers to the regular series of Essex House Press Publications will not be expected to subscribe if they do not wish to do so, but will be given first refusal.
Intending subscribers and persons who desire to receive announcements of the forthcoming publications are recommended to enter their names as soon as possible.
The Publications already issued are:
1. Benvenuto Cellini's Treatises on Metal Work and Sculpture. By C.R. ASHBEE. 600 copies. A few still left. Price 35s. net.
2. The Hymn Of Bardaisan, the first Christian Poem, rendered into English verse from the original Syriac, by F. CRAWFORD BURKITT, of Trinity College, Cambridge. 250 copies.
[Out of print.
3. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Edited from the earlier editions by JANET E. ASHBEE, with a frontispiece by REGINALD SAVAGE. Vellum cover. 750 copies. Price 30s. net.
4. The Church of Saint Mary Stratford atte Bow. 250 copies.
[Out of print.
5. Shelley's Adonais. Vellum series. 50 copies.
[Out of print.
6. Shakespeare's Poems. 450 copies.
[Out of print.
7. The Eve of St. Agues. By JOHN KEATS. Vellum series. 125 copies. Price £2 2s. net.
[Out of print.
8. The Courtyer of Count Baldesar Castillo, divided into Foure Bookes. Done into Englyshe by THOMAS HOBY. 200 copies.
[Out of print.
9. Gray's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. The third of the Vellum Series. 125 copies.
[Out of print.
10. Walt Whitman's Hymn on the Death of Lincoln. 125 copies.
[Out of print.
11. An Endeavour towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris. Being an account of the Work and Aims of the Guild of Handicraft. By C.R. ASHBEE. 250 copies. This is the first book in the new Essex House type.
[Out of print.
12. John Woolman's Journal. 250 copies.
[Out of print.
13. Erasmus' Praise of Folly. 250 copies. £3 3s.
14. Perm's Fruits of Solitude. 250 copies.
[Out of print.
These volumes are published on behalf of the Essex House Press by Mr. EDWARD ARNOLD, and can be ordered either from him or from any Bookseller.