Ashendene press bridges robert (2 risultati)

One of only 85 copies on Batchelor's 'Bugle' handmade paper, 6 printed on vellum. Printed in black on red in Subiaco type with initials printed in blue and red throughout. 8vo., original linen backed blue paper covered boards, title printed in black on the upper cover. A spine darkened with a little wear to top headcap, boards with some fading and a few small marks, very edges a little darkened but otherwise very good. This was the first time these 11 poems had been published in book form, and here they were only printed in a small number for private circulation. Hornby writes in his bibliography that with his own hand these were "printed during the first few months of the Great War.for private circulation only, 50 copies going to the Poet Laureate & the remainder being distributed by myself.When the book was finished the Press was closed down until the beginning of 1920". With a presentation letter to 'Milford', presumably Bridges's publisher and head of the Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford, from Robert Bridges at Chilswell (the house he built), dated July 1st 1915, so this is one of the 50 copies printed for the poet. He writes "I said I would send you a copy of Hornby's book. Here it is. Pls accept it with my compts.". With the ex libris of Constance Maria Josepha Hugh Smith and Violet Rawson, Lady Leconfield of Petworth House.…

220 x 182 mm. (8 3/4 x 6 3/8"). 2 p.l. (first blank), 20 pp. Original holland-backed blue paper boards. Hand-painted initials in red or blue. Three lines printed in red. Hornby 28; Franklin, p. 239. âBoards a little soiled, tiny chip to head of spine, but an excellent copy, the text clean, fresh, and bright, and the fragile original binding entirely solid. One of 40 memorably beautiful Ashendene Press books issued between 1895 and 1935, this is a collection of poems composed during the year Bridges was named Poet Laureate. Bridges (1844-1930) had written verse since childhood, and he continued to do so while studying and practicing medicine, with his first volume of verse appearing in 1873. Day says he "is probably the master in English of a serene classic style," and notes the poet's lifelong "fervid interest" in "high-quality printing of books," a taste that no doubt drew him to St John Hornby's Ashendene Press. During the period when the present item was in production, Bridges had written to Hornby several times. "I hope that you will not think the little poems unworthy of your press," he said in a letter dated 18-19 November 1914. "One cannot estimate one's own work very surely, but I am willing to be judged by these poems, and am anxious to print them." Hornby set the type for the text with his own hands and issued the work for private circulation only, supplying Bridges with 50 copies and keeping the rest for himself. The last book published before a six-year hiatus at the press because of World War I, this printing constituted the first appearance of these poems in book form, and the present item comprises the only literary first printing of significance done at the Ashendene Press. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 85 COPIES ON PAPER (and six on vellum), none of them for sale. …