HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus. Carmina Sapphica, Chelsea, [ASHENDENE PRESS], in Aedibus St. J. Hornby, 1903, 4°, limited to 150 copies on Japon, watercolour initial letters in red and blue, and goldleaf, printed in red and black (B1-2 lightly soiled), original vellum [Tomkinson 18; Franklin p. 195]; and a 2pp. a.l.s. by C. H. St. John Hornby to 'Dundas', dated Shelley House, Embankment, S.W.3., 27 March 1923, recalling the latter's visit to Ashendene shortly after the commencement of the Press, and advising him on the restoring some original press bindings. (2)

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HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus. Carmina Sapphica, Chelsea, [ASHENDENE PRESS], in Aedibus St. J. Hornby, 1903, 4°, limited to 150 copies on Japon, watercolour initial letters in red and blue, and goldleaf, printed in red and black (B1-2 lightly soiled), original vellum [Tomkinson 18; Franklin p. 195]; and a 2pp. a.l.s. by C. H. St. John Hornby to 'Dundas', dated Shelley House, Embankment, S.W.3., 27 March 1923, recalling the latter's visit to Ashendene shortly after the commencement of the Press, and advising him on the restoring some original press bindings. (2)

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