ashbee new (3 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good binding. Limited Edition. Small quarto; in white buckram lettered in gilt to the spine; 4 preliminary leaves; [iii]-lvi, 59, [1] page, with illustrations including map; the edition limited to 75 copies issued on the Essex House paper, of which this is number 45; there is a previous owner bookplate on the upper pastedown; the spine is a bit darkened.~~Housed in a red cloth drop-back box with green morocco label to the spine; there are a couple of light stains to the box. Very Good binding.

60 pp. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. 8vo, publisher's white buckram, gilt-lettered at the spine. First edition; No. 11 of only 75 copies issued on Essex House paper. A very attractive copy: the spine is very slightly tanned and with some very minor soiling to the cloth.

Vellum. Zustand: Near Fine. Frank New (illustrator). First edition. An excellent example of Charles Robert Ashbee's limited edition account of the famous Cotswold games, illustrated by Frank New. No. 83 of 150 copies printed on 'ordinary paper'.C. R. Ashbee recounts the final twenty-six years of the famous Cotswold games.The Cotswold Olimpick Games originated in 1612 in Chipping Campden, England, and continues today. Originally, the Games included competitions such as running, jumping, and equestrian events, along with traditional contests such as sword and sledgehammer throwing. Ashbee revived it for a time as part of the movement to create a self-sufficient rural community in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.Illustrated with six illustrations from Frank New. Collated, complete.With the former owner's bookplate of John S. Gaymer to a front blank, and with Ashbee's obituary tipped in to the verso of the same leaf. With a newspaper clipping depicting the Cotswold Games to the recto of a rear blank.Charles Robert Ashbee was an English architect and designer who was a significant figure within the Arts and Crafts movement. In the publisher's original vellum backed paper covered boards. Externally, fine. Bookplate tipped in to recto of a front blank, with a newspaper clipping to verso of this leaf, and to the recto of a final leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. book.