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Ecclesiasticus,1/328,Ashendene,1932

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one of 328 copies, printed in red and black in Subiaco type with initials supplied by hand in blue and green by Graily Hewitt and assistants, original orange-stained vellum with silk ties, by Douglas Cockerell of the W.H.Smith bindery, uncut, original Cockerell marbled board slip-case (slightly rubbed at edges), [Hornby XXXVIII], 4to, Ashendene Press, 1932.

***Despite announcing that the Press was closing Hornby notes in the Bibliography, "The temptation to add yet one more book to my list was too strong for me to resist and I there and then offered to print a small edition. I have never regretted having done so, as in my humble judgment it is one of the most satisfactory of the books of the Press." .

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