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Horace.Carmina Alcaica/Sapphica,Ashendene

together 2 vol., each one of 150 copies on Japan vellum, printed in red and black in Subiaco type, initials by hand by Graily Hewitt, the first in gold, the rest in red or blue, the first a presentation copy from C.H.St.John Hornby inscribed "To Philip Webb from the Printer, Nov. 1903" on front free endpaper, and with further inscriptions in other hands "given by P.W.'s executor E[mery] W[alker] to Walter Knight Shirley, Earl Ferrers Feb.22.1916" & "and by him to Charles C.Winmill January 1937", the second with leather book-label of Cortlandt F.Bishop, two extremely fine copies, both original limp vellum, spines titled in gilt, the second with yapp edges, together in modern cloth drop back box, 8vo, 183 x 126mm., Ashendene Press, 1903.

***Philip Webb (1831-1915), architect and business partner of William Morris, for whom he designed Red House, Bexleyheath..

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