Bridges, Robert. Poems Written in the Year MCMXIIIÉ Chelsea: Printed by St John Hornby at the Ashendene Press, 1914
Original blue paper, front cover lettered in black, with linen backstrip. , [ii], 20 pp. , Printed on Batchelor paper with a Bugle watermark, in black and red. Blue initials supplied by Graily Hewitt.
Very light soiling to boards, upper corners slightly bumped, otherwise a fine copy. , Printed during the first few months of World War I, this was the last work issued by the Ashendene Press until after the war. Hornby set this himself, a singularly beautiful book. This must rank as the only literary first appearance of any significance at the Ashendene Press, inviting comparison with Daniel Press editions of Bridges (Colin Franklin)., Ashendene Bibliography XXVIII. Franklin, The Ashendene Press, p. 239. Ransom, Private Presses, 30. Tomkinson, 30.
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