The Ashendene Press edition of Horace's Carmina Sapphica

Boston: Anne and David Bromer, 1983. 64mo (i.e., a miniature book approx. 1⅜" x 1"), pp. [20], 46, [2]; text in English and Latin, full crimson morocco, gilt-ruled covers, gilt-paneled spine in 3 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, a.e.g.; fine throughout, with accompanying prospectus (with a portrait of St. John Hornsby at his Albion Press) in a cloth portfolio, together in a morocco-backed clamshell box lettered in gilt. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, copy no. 100), printed on the Ashendene hand press by Linnea Gentry from the original Ashendene plates. The binding of this edition is by David Boubeau of the Thistle Bindery, replicating the binding of the 1923 first miniature edition of these songs by Horace was printed at the Ashendene Press in 1923 for the library of Queen Mary's Doll's House in an edition of ten copies. The plates for the 1923 edition consisted of photographic reproduction of a larger edition of the work issued by the Ashendene Press. Item #70604

Price: $750.00