The Essex House Song Book will be issued in about 100 folio sheets, three or four songs coming on to the sheet of four pages. The sheets will be printed red and black in the new type, with wood-cut embellishments, and uniform in size with the Essex House ‘Shakespeare.’ Three hundred copies only will be issued, of which 100 are reserved in the first instance for America. The sheets will be published in batches of about ten sheets at a time, at a cost of 1s. a sheet, and over a period of two or three years. Subscriptions can only be received for the whole work, payable as the sheets are ready for delivery. Subscribers to the regular series of Essex House Press Publications will not be expected to subscribe if they do not wish to do so, but will be given first refusal.
Intending subscribers and persons who desire to receive announcements of the forthcoming publications are recommended to enter their names as soon as possible.
The Publications already issued are:
1. Benvenuto Cellini’s
Treatises on Metal Work and Sculpture.
By C.R. ASHBEE.
600 copies. A few still left. Price 35s.
net.
2. The Hymn Of Bardaisan, the
first Christian Poem, rendered into
English verse
from the original Syriac, by F. CRAWFORD BURKITT, of
Trinity College,
Cambridge. 250 copies.
Out of print.
3. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s
Progress. Edited from the earlier editions
by JANET E. ASHBEE,
with a frontispiece by REGINALD SAVAGE. Vellum
cover. 750 copies.
Price 30s. net.
4. The Church of Saint Mary Stratford atte Bow. 250 copies.
Out of print.
5. Shelley’s Adonais. Vellum series. 50 copies.
Out of print.
6. Shakespeare’s Poems. 450 copies.
Out of print.
7. The Eve of St. Agues.
By JOHN KEATS. Vellum series. 125
copies. Price
L2 2s. net.
Out of print.
8. The Courtyer of Count Baldesar
Castillo, divided into Foure
Bookes. Done
into Englyshe by THOMAS HOBY. 200 copies.
Out of print.
9. Gray’s Elegy written
in a Country Churchyard. The third of
the Vellum Series.
125 copies.
Out of print.
10. Walt Whitman’s Hymn on the Death of Lincoln. 125 copies.
Out of print.
11. An Endeavour towards the Teaching
of John Ruskin and William
Morris. Being
an account of the Work and Aims of the Guild of
Handicraft.
By C.R. ASHBEE. 250 copies. This is the first
book in
the new Essex
House type.
Out of print.
12. John Woolman’s Journal. 250 copies.
Out of print.
13. Erasmus’ Praise of Folly. 250 copies. L3 3s.
14. Perm’s Fruits of Solitude. 250 copies.