ASHENDENE PRESS. THUCYDIDES. ~ The History of the Pelopennesian War.
One of 260 copies printed on Batchelor Ashendene 'knight in armour' paper, there were 20 copies on vellum. The red initials are from the alphabet designed by Eric Gill for the Press's Utopia, marginal chapter summaries and opening lines, designed by Graily Hewitt, printed in red. Printed in Ptolemy type with Blado marginal chapter summaries. Folio, original white pigskin by W.H. Smith bindery, uncut. Extremely clean and crisp internally, the spine is darkened with some rubbing, tiny split to the bottom of the spine, boards with some soiling, top corners bumped and edges a little darkened but generally a handsome copy of this stately printing.
Translated by Benjamin Jowett, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.
The final Ashendene folio and the first time Hornby had thought to use different type in red for the side-notes which looks rather fine, especially with the perfectly crafted Gill initials.
With the Bathurst family Cirencester Park bookplate on the front pastedown and the original 4pp. prospectus tipped onto the front free endpaper.