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Learn about the Essex House Press, a private press founded by C R Ashbee, who also ran the Guild of Handicraft. See examples of its books, types, illustrations and history in the virtual library.
Book author and publisher. Ashbee was involved in book production and literary work. He set up the Essex House Press after Morris's Kelmscott Press closed in 1897, taking on many of the displaced printers and craftsmen. Between 1898 and 1910 the Essex House Press produced more than 70 titles.
Inspired by William Morris and the fine printing revival, Charles R. Ashbee founded the Essex House Press in 1898. Clemence Housman engraved numerous illustrations for this firm.
The Essex House Press closed in 1910, having produced more than seventy titles. Frontispiece by Walter Crane (1845-1915), painter and designer, known especially for his illustrations for children’s books. As an apprentice wood-engraver, he studied the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
8 de abr. de 2022 · In 1898, when William Morris’s famous Kelmscott Press was closing down, Ashbee welcomed the opportunity to acquire two of its presses and establish the Essex House Press. Court Barn has a collection of over eighty Essex House Press books, demonstrating the range which the Press produced.
First Essex House Press edition, number 29 of 165 copies only printed on vellum and hand-illuminated. The extensive illustrated initials in this work, alongside the frontispiece and pageant drawing, are all by Edith Harwood (1866-1926), member of the Guild of Handicraft and Women's Guild of Arts.
27 de feb. de 2014 · The Press finally ceased production altogether in 1906. Ashbee, however, was convinced that someday collectors would come to appreciate his beloved books. This bibliography carefully notes the details of each edition in what almost seems like an anticipation of the curiosity of future collectors.
