THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, & OTHER RITES & CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID ... by [Essex House Press] - 1904

[ London: Printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft / Essex House Press, for Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1904. [12],386,[1]pp. plus [8]pp. inserted supplement. Folio. Half gilt pigskin and wooden boards, with metal clasps and thong ties (most of the latter absent), untrimmed. Printed in red and black, with decorations and initials. Spine still sound but chipped at crown and toe, with cracking of joints, institutional bookplate on front pastedown, pencil gift inscription on first blank, fore-edge of insert dust darkened; internally a very good or better copy. Ashbee's Essex House edition of the Prayer Book of Edward VII, with some 150 cuts after drawings by Ashbee, executed by W.H. Hooper and Clemence Housman. One of 400 copies on paper and ten on vellum, printed in the Endeavour and Prayer Book types designed by Ashbee. Tomkinson asserts that only fifty copies of the insert were printed, specifically to accompany those copies sent to America. The selection of the pigskin for binding was not necessarily wise, as without careful attention, the joints dry and crack (as here). A special adapted reprint was eventually prepared for American distribution by M. Walter Dunne. GRIFFITH 1904.1. RANSOM (ESSEX) 37. TOMKINSON (ESSEX) 37 & 39.