(Essex House Press.) C.R. Ashbee: 'The Last Records of a Cot...

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(Essex House Press.) C.R. Ashbee: 'The Last Records of a Cotswold Community: being the Weston Subedge Field account book for the final twenty-six years of the famous Cotswold Games, hitherto unpublished, and now edited with a study on the old time sports of Campden and the village community of Weston by C.R. Ashbee.', Campden, Printed at the Essex House Press by the Guild of Handicraft, 1904, limited edition, pen & ink numbered 57 to colophon (of 150 copies on "ordinary paper" bound in boards), 7 illustrations of Dover's Hill, Campden and the Guild of Handicraft and a double page map after drawings by Edmund H. New, [4],lvi,[4],59,[1]pp, small 4to (22 x 17cm), original paper covered boards, printed paper label to spine. A scarce account intended to perserve the story of this Cotswold community and its traditions. Ashbee recounts the final twenty-six years of the famous Cotswold games and old time sports of Campden and Weston. The Cotswold Olimpick games is an annual celebration of games and sports which began in 1612 and ran until 1852. The games were subsequently revived in 1963 and continue to this day