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HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Nabu Press, 2010-03-08. Paperback. Good.

London & New York: Edward Arnold / Sameuel Buckley, 1902. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo, 45 pages, the upper cover blindstamped with a rose motif and the words "Soul is Form", spine lettered in gilt, stiff vellum, Ex libris Arthur E. Chapman. Covers soiled, tissue guards laid in to protect the illustrations. C.R. Ashbee and his Essex House Press inherited the principles and many of the personnel of The Kelmscott Press. Each paragraph begins with an ornamental letter drawn and coloured in by Edith Harwood. [Tomkinson p.73, 29th book of the press; Ransom p. 266]. Copy numberd 125 of only 165 copies printed on vellum. The vellum, paper and inks are the same as used by Morris, and some of the same craftsmen worked for Essex House Press. The 6th book in the Great Poet Series. The Floure and the Leafe is an anonymous Middle English allegorical poem which was mistakenly attributed to Chaucer, but its author - possibly a woman - remains unknown. Frontispiece and 2 woodcut plates, 85… Read More

London: Essex House Press (Edward Arnold), 1902. leather_bound. Full limp vellum. Very good. 45 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Limited edition, copy 94 of 165 printed on vellum with front cover Arts & Crafts rose in blind, and entitled "Soul Is Form." Hand colored woodcut frontispiece, plus a central two panel plate, and elaborate colored initials throughout by Edith Harwood. Bookplate of Henry Walters Morrieson front cover pastedown. "The Essex House Press was then an Arts & Crafts press par excellence.....it reveals more of Art Nouveau in many of the books than one would have expected from so devoted a follower of Morris." CAVE: PRIVATE PRESS, p.125 noting Ashbee's work at Essex House. Slight cover soiling at top edges.

(London: Essex House Press, 1902. Harwood, Edith. Octavo. 45pp. One of 165 copies, printed entirely on vellum. With hand-colored illustrations and initials by Edith Harwood, comprising one full-page and one double-page illustration, and eighty historiated initials. Alan Crawford describes Harwood's work for Essex House Press as harmonious and in keeping with the aesthetic of the time. Her images were "in a simple outline style of the sort found in contemporary children's books, which could be easily and tellingly enriched with colour." He also calls her work on the initials for this particular book one of the two "most successful" of the series. This is the sixth book of the "Great Poems" series from Essex House Press. In full vellum over boards, blind-stamped with the rose logo and the motto of the series, "Soul is Form." Faint soiling, else fine, housed in a stout cloth slipcase. This is the Abbey copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown and accession notes on the rear endleaf. (Crawford, p.… Read More