A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament…

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Initials hand-drawn by Graily Hewitt with a variant of the titling on the spine

~ A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and The Apocrypha.

Chelsea Ashendene Press 1904

One of 150 copies on a thinner Batchelor 'hammer and anvil' paper, (a further 25 copies were printed on vellum). Printed in Subiaco type in red and black. Blue initials hand-drawn by Graily Hewitt. 8vo., original limp vellum with a variant of the usual gilt lettering on the spine (normally it reads ‘SONGS FROM THE BIBLE’ and here it fills the whole spine ‘SONGS AND POEMS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT AND APOCRYPHA’. An extremely good, fresh copy with two dark marks on the top edge bleeding a little to the very top of the leaves.

A very beautiful piece of printing with four- and five-line initials by Graily Hewitt.

Ashendene Bibliography XVIII; Franklin, The Ashendene Press, p.74-75, 237
Stock ref: 11583
Keywords: Book, Private Press
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