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my leaf Qiii XXXV (in red 331 Q1111 QV rub. in red + blue sig. HEHL #97240 Goff G-386 A. Koberger Nov. 30, 1493 HC. 7913 Causa XXV - Questio 1-10. Questio 4 - short, only 21 lines. " 5 - long - 3 pages of 62 lines. DE gradibus vero conaan guinitatis quomodo computadi sunt: beatus isidorus sie loquitm. Quo sunt ? putadi grad 9 affinitatis (in red)

483 Dawson's Los Angeles Feb. '98 $50 See #225 Edmund Spencer (c. 1552-1599) The Faerie Queene Ashendene Press - 1923 Copy HEHL, Stanford Biblio. XXXII. The Faerie Queene Disposed into 12 books Fashioning XII morall Vertues by Edmund Spencer. md CCCCXXIII Printed at the Ashendene Press, at Shelley-House, Chelsea in the county of Middlesax by C. H. St. J. Hornby asisted by I. Jenkins, compositor + G. Faulkner, Pressmen. - begun Jan. 1932 - ended Nov. 1923. 180 copies paper, 12 vellum (for sale at 105 guineas) folio [A] 4 leaves; B-Z, AA, BB in eights; CC b leaves (435x300 mm) Stanford Typo Colection Z 239.2 A8S74f Pp viii + 408. text of Faerie Queene pp 9-406. Shoulder notes + verses at the head of each Cnato are printed in red + the large initials in red+ blue alternately. 2 col. on Batchelor paper bearing the Knight in Armous watermark. large initials designed by Graily Hewitt

HEHL #132637 paper copy Z1 (of 8) p. 337 - The Sixte Book of Faerie Queene - Z8 (of 8) p. 351 - The VI Book Ca. iij 33-42 Text with minor alterations is that ed. for the Oxford Univ. Press by J.C. Smith + is based on a collation of the Quartos of 1590 + 1596 + the folio of 1609. VI Booke - ends on p. 394

Franklin p. 240 Franklin says that, along with the "Minor Poems" this is the masterpiece among the impressive Ashendene folios. He says,

Spenser's large folios were the last in Subiaco + the best. - Subiaco type - first used - Lo Inferno di Dante, 1902. - in some cases the initials were not printed but instead spaces were left for the scribe to add them by hand afterwards. - 2nd type face added in 1925 -Ptolemy - used in the Don Quixote published in 1927. -total of 10 types used at the press. 7. Subiaco, Great Primer Roman 8. Ptolemy " " " These 2 faces were especially designed for the Ashendene Press. - The 6 books which Spencer completed (of the projected 12) exhibit the virtues of Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Frenship Justice + Courtesy. 40 - 1590 - first 3 books published. 40 - 1596 - the 6 book Faerie Queene was published with some revisions in the 1st part + a changed ending to part 3 folio. 1609 - the so-called "Mutability Cantos" first appeared.

XXXV 1925 Spenser's Minor Poems - This book is the last of the Ashendene Press folios printed in the Subiaco type. - The Faerie Queene was conceived as a work of 12 books, each of which was to have portrayed, in the person of its leading knight, one of the 12 private moral virtues: the work as a whole to be unified by the figure of Prince Arthur, the 'image of a brave knight', in whom all these virtues were perfectec. Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, signifies both the abstract concept of Glory + Queen Elizabeth in particular. Drawing heavily from the chivalric romances, Spencer has Prince Arthur see hes in a vision + determine to seek her out in Faeryland.

484 Dawson's Los Angeles Feb '98 $35 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616) Don Quixote Ashendene Press - 1927 Copy: HEHL, Stanford. Biblio. XXXVI Don Quixote - transl. by Thomas Shelton + 1st printed by William Stansby in the year 1612. The Shelley House. Chelsea in the County of London MXmxxvii printed by St. John Jornby assisted by G. Faulkner pressman + I. Jenkins compositor - begun Nov. 1925, ended May 1927 - initials + borders - designed by Louise Powell + cut on wood by W. M. Quick + Geo H. Ford. - paper by J. Batchelor + son of Ford Mill. Little Chart, Kent 225 on paper, 20 on vellum (17 for sale at 75 guineas each vol.) folio. [A] 8 leaves; B-X, Z in sixes; AA 4 leaves Pp. 2 + x + 260 (428x300 mm) text of history pp 1-256 these 2 vol. were the 1st to be printed in his new Ptolemy type. Hornby used it for 3 other late productions of the press before it closed in 1935. - Jowett's translation of Thucydides, the Amours (See #493) Pastorales de Daphnis + Chloe + his Bibliography.

Stanford Ashendene Press Bibliography Typo Collection Gurst Z 239.2 A8Z9 f. Z 239.2 A8 C41 f -paper HEHL #255292 2. vol. on vellum - loose leaves The First Booke of the p. 12 Delightful Historie his leadof the most Ingeniousn Knight Don - Quixote - might execute Chap. 1 Wherein is rehearsed in red the calling, and exercises of the renowned gentleman missing from my leaf T HERE Lived - Don Quixote of the Manche leaf - trial sheet The Frist book Chapt: I page 2 The First Book Chapt. IV Page 11 - 1st book, total of 8 chapters. Chapter IV. Of that which befell to out Knight, after hee had departed from the Inne. - 2nd book begins on page 29. p. 12 The First Booke in red missing from my leaf. Chap. IV. Of that which -

These 2 volumes taken together constitute the longest Ashendene publication + the most expensive one to produce. Emery Walker's new typeface, derived from the font used for the 1482 Ptolemy printed in Ulm, was a much lighter more elegant letter than the earlier font, "the denser Subiaco.