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Essex House Press. A Mornynge Remembraunce, compyled by the Reverent Fader in God, Johan Fysher Bishop of Rochester, Essex House Press, 1906, frontispiece by C. R. Ashbee, printed in red and black, original vellum, slight toning to spine, 8vo, presentation inscription at front 'Nina from Maur, August 1921', limited edition,67/125, together with The Hymn of Bardaisan, rendered into English by F. Crawford Burkitt, Essex House Press, 1899. woodcut initial, printed in red and black, unopened, original boards, spine a little toned, small indentations to rear cover, 8vo, limited edition of 300, plus The Picture of Kebes the Theban, Essex House Press, 1906, printed in red and black, bookplate of Thomas Edward and Catharine Hodgkin, original boards, 8vo, limited edition of 50, this copy presented to M(r) Enthoven, together with Ashbee (C.R., editor). The Manual of the Guild and School of Handicraft: being a guide to county councils and technical teachers, London: Cassell & Company, 1892, title with woodcut device of the Guild, 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, light spotting to half-title, with an 8pp. printed Guild booklet extract loosely inserted at front, containing a Preface by G. F. Watts, introduction and course of lectures (pages numbered 9-[16]), and a 3pp. printed order form for the Guild's volume of Transactions loosely inserted at rear, uncut and untrimmed, original printed pale brown wrappers, in very good condition, 8vo, plus 4 others including A Bibliography of the Essex House Press... from the year 1898 to 1904, Essex House Press, 1904, Report on the Work of the Campden School of Arts and Crafts 1903-04, Essex House Press, 1904 anf Reprint of an Article in 'Handicraft' by Mr. Frederic Allen Whiting, Secretary of the Arts and Crafts Society of Boston, Massachusetts... Essex House Press, 1904, all ex-libris of John Avery (Quantity: 8) A Mornynge Remembraunce is inscribed by the Arts and Crafts etcher F. L. Griggs (1876-1938) to his wife Nina Griggs. The Manual of the Guild and School of Handicraft provenance: John Avery, F.C.A., Woodford Green, Essex, with his printed label to inside front cover of the first volume, and to final leaf of the three printed booklets. Tomkinson 66, 3 & 71 respectively for the first three Essex House Press titles.