AMERICAN SHEAVES & ENGLISH SEED CORN: BEING A SERIES OF ADDRESSES MAINLY DELIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES, 1900-1901 by Ashbee, C.R - 1901

(London and New York: Edward Arnold and Samuel Buckley & Co, 1901. First edition, 1/300 copies (this # 208) printed at the Essex house Press. 8vo. (6), 134 pp. Tipped in erratum slip. Contents leaf printed in red and black, historiated initials throughout. Series of lectures delivered by Ashbee on behalf of the National Trust, in hopes that a similar organization might be formed in the United States. Very good unopened copy. Contemporary vellum (somewhat bowed and darkened), gilt spine title. (9652).

ASHBEE, C.R. AMERICAN SHEAVES AND ENGLISH SEED-CORN: BEING A SERIES OF ADDRES MAINLY DELIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES 1900-1901. London: Edward Arnold/ New York: Samuel Buckley & Co., 1901. 8vo. Vellum. (v 134 pages. Number 124 of 300 copies. A collection of eight lectures given by Ashbee while he was serving on the council of the National Trust. The lectures include such topics as: "On the purpose of the National Trust;" "The country houses of England and the sentim of Elizabethan aristocracy;" "The National trust to the great vainglorious ci of Chicago;" and "On certain aspects of English apathy." Printed under Ashbe care at Essex House Press, this is a lovely piece of Arts and Crafts book design, with rubrications and historiated capitals. From the library of Marjorie and H.D. Phillips, with attractive woodcut bookplate on front end board. Both successful artists, the couple founded the Phillips Collection, America's first Museum of Modern Art, in New York. On untrimmed handmade pap Vellum binding… Read More

London: Essex House Press,, 1901. First edition, number 286 of 300 copies, printing the text of eight lectures or addresses originally delivered by Charles Ashbee on behalf of the National Trust as part of his endeavours to make "the work and objects of the society known in the United States". Title of Ashbee's lectures include "On the Purpose of the National Trust", "The Abbeys of England in the Light of a Lesson in Citizenship", "Chelsea: or the Village of Palaces" and "Of Certain Aspects of English Apathy". Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft was founded in 1888 at Essex House in the Mile End Road, in the East End of London. The Essex House Press was added to Ashbee's enterprise when William Morris's Kelmscott Press closed and Ashbee took over the presses and some of the staff. The Kelmscott fonts were not available and Ashbee therefore designed his own in which he "sought to follow upon the lines laid down by Morris". This present book is printed in the "Endeavour" type. Octavo. Original vellum, spine… Read More

London: Essex House Press,, 1901. C. R. Ashbee's lectures for the National Trust, privately printed by his Essex House Press and specially bound by his bindery to a design possibly by Annie Power First edition, number 7 of 300 copies. The text of eight lectures or addresses originally delivered by Charles Ashbee in the United States in 1900 to 1901 on behalf of the National Trust as part of his endeavours to make "the work and objects of the society known in the United States". Ashbee notes in the preface to this volume that he served on the Council of the National Trust from 1896 to 1901. During his tenure "a series of lectures and addresses on behalf of the National Trust was planned" for delivery in the United States. Titles include "On the Purpose of the National Trust", "The Abbeys of England in the Light of a Lesson in Citizenship", "Chelsea: or the Village of Palaces" and "Of Certain Aspects of English Apathy". Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft was founded in 1888 at Essex House in the Mile End… Read More