(Ashendene Press, Charles Harold St John Hornby.) 'Hymns and...

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(Ashendene Press, Charles Harold St John Hornby.) 'Hymns and Prayers for Use at the Marriage of Michael Hornby and Nicolette Ward at St Margaret's Church Westminster, November 15, 1928', Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1928, [12]pp, 8vo, original stitched printed blue wraps, bookplate of C.F.J. Beausire to inside top wrap. According to the Ashendene Bibliography about 250 copies were printed, but that no record was kept. It is difficult to believe that many copies would have been saved; various announcements, some with corresponding order forms, including 'Il Decameron di Giovanni Boccaccio', November 1920, single leaf, tall 8vo (26 x 17cm), plus 4 further duplicate copies of the same announcement, 'The Golden Asse', single leaf, October 1924 (20.5 x 14cm), 'Spenser's Faerie Queene', single leaf, January 1924, the first version listed in Franklin with prices in one paragraph, together with the order form, 'for I Fioretti di San Francesco', February, 1922, printed on recto in red & black, verso blank; 21.8 cm. x 14.9 cm, all housed in blue cloth portfolio (34 x 22cm), "Ashendene Press - Ephemera Etc." in gilt to front cover