Private press (1895–1935) based in Chelsea, London
Watermark of the Hornby family crest used by the Ashendene Press
The Ashendene Press was a small private press founded by St John Hornby (1867–1946). It operated from 1895 to 1915 in Chelsea, London and was revived after the war in 1920. The press closed in 1935. Its peers included the Kelmscott Press and the Doves Press. Hornby became friends with William Morris and Emery Walker, who helped inspire his work. These three presses were part of a "revival of fine printing" that focused on treating bookmaking as fine art. The Ashendene Press was famous for producing high-quality works by Dante. Ashendene books had excellent bindings and focused more on pleasure than reform than the other private presses of the time, though one review claims that the Ashendene Press was the most successful private press in recapturing the essence of fifteenth-century printing. Ashendene books were carefully printed with large margins, and despite their lack of extravagant decoration, they were considered spectacular works of art. Two original typefaces were created for the Ashendene Press: Subiaco and Ptolemy. They were known for handwritten, colored initials by Graily Hewitt. The press' main customers were book collectors who paid for a subscription for Ashendene books.
The AshendenePress was a small private press founded by St John Hornby (1867–1946). It operated from 1895 to 1915 in Chelsea, London and was revived...
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in the Classical Review 31 that year. Twelve War Epitaphs (Chelsea: AshendenePress, 1920) An Introduction to Comparative Philology for Classical Students...
Saunders Studio Press, Claremont. Founded by Lynne and Ruth Thompson Saunders in 1927 Ward Ritchie Press Arion Press, San Francisco AshendenePress (1894–1935)...
Smith, deputy vice-chairman of the NSPCC, and founder and owner of the AshendenePress. Charles Harold St John (pronounced 'Sin-jun') Hornby was born on 25...
hand-printed books of private presses such as William Morris' Kelmscott Press, Essex House Press, Eragny Press, Vale Press and AshendenePress which had flourished...
from old warped blocks. Her experience of a real private press, St John Hornby's AshendenePress, was rather more mixed. Raverat spent a year producing...
of an occasional poem by Shane Leslie, which was published by the AshendenePress. Sir Philip Gordon Dunn, 2nd Baronet Dunn (1905–1976), who was father...
the works. The Eragny Press shared type with Vale for a time and was famous for Lucien Pissarro's illustrations. The AshendenePress published many beautiful...
Thames following a business disagreement. He also worked with the AshendenePress to cut the Subiaco and Ptolemy types. A somewhat retiring figure, only...
Railway chairman Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet (1840–1901), AshendenePress founder, High Sheriff of Donegal (1884–1887) Christopher Helm (1937–2007)...
of William Blake's The marriage of heaven and hell (printed at the AshendenePress in just 24 copies in 1910). With Keynes Bartholomew worked on John...
examples of the productions by the Doves Press, AshendenePress and the Roxburghe Club. Works from foreign presses have been collected and include many publications...
Queen Mary. Her patrons also included the Doves Press, the AshendenePress, and the Kelmscott Press. In 1913, she married Edmund James Webb, and they...
specialized in creating illuminated manuscripts. She worked with the AshendenePress, the writer Olive Schreiner, and the archaeologist Flinders Petrie...
worked for the Kelmscott Press, doing much work for William Morris, and afterwards the AshendenePress and Essex House Press, where he created engravings...
Hewitt's. He also created a series of initials for St. John Hornby's AshendenePress, during the long period 1902 to 1935. He continued calligraphy up to...
never be bored." The others were the Kelmscott, Doves, Ashendene, Eragny, and Essex House Presses. In the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle...
England and the United States, particularly the work of the Ashendene, Doves, and Roycroft Presses. Around 1900, rubrication was incorporated into a Red letter...
anti-industrial values[vague] of the great private presses – namely those of Kelmscott, Doves, and Ashendene. Following Garnett's inspirational proposal to...
(Grafton, 1959). Stan Knight, Historical Types: From Gutenberg to Ashendene (Oak Knoll Press, 2012), ISBN 9781584562986. Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type:...
from various private presses, eventually gaining complete collections of books from the Kelmscott, Ashendene and Gwasg Gregynog presses. He also became interested...
Stan (2012). Historical Types: from Gutenberg to Ashendene. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press. ISBN 9781584562986. Lane, John A. (1996). "From the...
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