ESSEX HOUSE PRESS--THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Prayer Book of King Edward VII, Chipping Campden: The Essex House Press, 1903, 2 in 8s, printed in red and black in Endeavour and Prayer Book types, woodcut frontispiece, title- and page- borders, illustrations, decorations and initials in red and black by W.H. Hooper and Clemence Housman after C.R. Ashbee (very light scattered spotting), original calf-backed oak boards by Anastasia Power at The Guild of Handicraft and Eyre and Spottiswoode, titled in gilt on the spine, wrought-iron and plaited-calf clasps (spine lightly faded and rubbed at extremities, unobtrusive light marks on boards). LIMITED TO 400 COPIES, THIS NO. 330 OF 390 ON ESSEX HOUSE PRESS HAND-MADE PAPER. Crawford 36; Tomkinson p.74.

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ESSEX HOUSE PRESS--THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Prayer Book of King Edward VII, Chipping Campden: The Essex House Press, 1903, 2 in 8s, printed in red and black in Endeavour and Prayer Book types, woodcut frontispiece, title- and page- borders, illustrations, decorations and initials in red and black by W.H. Hooper and Clemence Housman after C.R. Ashbee (very light scattered spotting), original calf-backed oak boards by Anastasia Power at The Guild of Handicraft and Eyre and Spottiswoode, titled in gilt on the spine, wrought-iron and plaited-calf clasps (spine lightly faded and rubbed at extremities, unobtrusive light marks on boards). LIMITED TO 400 COPIES, THIS NO. 330 OF 390 ON ESSEX HOUSE PRESS HAND-MADE PAPER. Crawford 36; Tomkinson p.74.

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The largest book printed by The Essex House Press, The Prayer Book of King Edward VII was the result of Ashbee's wish to present the Elizabethan text in a form fitting to its majesty, with a new typeface designed specifically for the work, some hundred new illustrations and three new sets of initials. The finished work enjoyed great popularity, and the accolade of the purchase by J. Pierpoint Morgan of 'a dozen copies to give away to the American bishops' (Crawford p. 395).

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