THE POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
According to the Text of the Original Copies. Edited by F. S. Ellis.
- London: Published by Edward Arnold and Printed at the Essex House Press, 1899.
- large 8vo
- publisher's limp vellum, four silk ties, gilt on spine
- 253, (2) pages
Price: $1,500.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 137469
Privately printed in red and black by Charles Robert Ashbee (1863 - 1942) in an edition of 450 numbered copies. (Ransom 9). Covers slightly warped, as usual, otherwise fine, with all four original silk ties. With large woodcut initial capitals by Reginald Savage.
Within a year following the death of William Morris, the Kelmscott Press closed, and several of its workman moved on to employment at the Essex House Press - founded in 1898 by Charles Robert Ashbee (1863 - 1942). Like Morris and his circle, C. R. Ashbee and the Guild of Handicrafts, of which the Essex Press was a key component, sought to demonstrate artistic creativity in a variety of media...printing, book binding, book illustrations, silver, coper, and furniture. C. R. Ashbee, an architect by training, founded the Guild back in 1888 in East London to work with silver and copper. Subsequently the Guild moved to its permanent home at Chipping Campden, Glousestershire where they operated until the Guild was liquidated in 1909.