Thucydides. (The History of the Peloponnesian War)
Ashendene Press. Thucydides
Chelsea. The Ashendene Press. 1930
The Ashendene Thucydides, the final folio from the press.
From the edition limited to 280 copies, with this one of 260 on Batchelor 'knight in armour' Ashendene paper; 20 copies on vellum were also issued.
The Greek text was translated by Benjamin Jowett, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. The book is printed in Ptolemy with Blado marginal chapter summaries - the first time St John Hornby had used a different type for side-notes.
This copy includes the original purchaser's invoice, a single leaf (216 x 150 mm) headed 'THE ASHENDENE PRESS / SHELLEY HOUSE, CHELSEA' and made out to Mr. Jacques Steinitz / Warren, Ohio'. Signed by St. John Hornby, with two pence stamp and dated May 27th, 1931, the cost is detailed as 15 Guineas.
[Ashendene XXXVII].
From the edition limited to 280 copies, with this one of 260 on Batchelor 'knight in armour' Ashendene paper; 20 copies on vellum were also issued.
The Greek text was translated by Benjamin Jowett, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. The book is printed in Ptolemy with Blado marginal chapter summaries - the first time St John Hornby had used a different type for side-notes.
This copy includes the original purchaser's invoice, a single leaf (216 x 150 mm) headed 'THE ASHENDENE PRESS / SHELLEY HOUSE, CHELSEA' and made out to Mr. Jacques Steinitz / Warren, Ohio'. Signed by St. John Hornby, with two pence stamp and dated May 27th, 1931, the cost is detailed as 15 Guineas.
[Ashendene XXXVII].
[188 leaves; pp. 363, (i)]. Folio. (408 x 282 mm). Printed title and 'Book I' to 'Book X' of Thucydides' text in English in red and black in Ptolemy type, chapter summaries in Blado marginal, chapter summaries and opening lines by Graily Hewitt in red, the red initials from the alphabet designed by Eric Gill for the Ashendene Utopia, final leaf with colophon and woodcut Ashendene device verso. Original publisher's full white pigskin by W. H. Smith & Son, Ltd. with their signature gilt to rear turn-in, banded spine with gilt title in six compartments.
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