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french fiction1
greek fiction1
latin fiction1
metamorphosis1
mythology, classical1
short stories, english1

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Ashendene Press10
Hornby, Charles Harry St John (1867-1946)2
Hornby, Charles Harry St. John2
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)2
Adlington, William1
Adlington, William (1566-)1
Amyot, Jacques1
Amyot, Jacques (1513-1593)1
Apuleius1
Clara, of Assisi, Saint, D. 12531

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Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe

Longus; Amyot, Jacques (1513-1593); Courier de Mere, Paul Louis (1772-1825); Ashendene Press

1933

An edition of 310 copies.

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The XI bookes of The golden asse : containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius interlaced with sundry pleasant and delectable tales. With an excellent narration of the marriage of Cupid and Psyches set out in the fourth, fifth, and the sixth bookes

Apuleius; Adlington, William (fl. 1566); Ashendene Press

1924

"First imprinted at London... by Henry Wykes, anno 1566, and now reprinted at the Ashendene Press ... by C.H. St. J. Hornby in the year 1924. 165 copies have been printed on paper and 16 copies on vel...

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I fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo S. Francesco di Assisi

Ashendene Press

1922

Limited edition of 240 copies on paper and 12 on vellum. Imprint from colophon. Woodcuts by J. Swain.

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Vita di Santa Chiara vergine

Verino, Ugolino (1438-1516); Seton, Walter W (1882-1927); Ashendene Press

1921

"236 copies on paper & 10 copies on vellum."

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Lo inferno di Dante Alighieri, Fiorentino

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Moore, Edward (1835-1916); Smith, R Catterson; Ashendene Press

1902

Con: Fine della prima cantica appellata Inferno della Commedia di Dante... Impressa nella stamperia privata di Ashendene a Shelley House, Chelsea, per opera e spesa di St John & Cicely Hornby coll'aiu...

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The Young King and other tales

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900); Hewitt, Graily (1864-1952); Hornby, Charles Harry St John (1867-1946); Ashendene Press

1924

"Printed by St John Hornby at the Ashendene Press... for his daughter Rosamund on her tenth birthday." - Colophon. Edition of 65 copies printed on paper, and 7 on vellum. Initials rubricated by Grai...

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The Faerie queene disposed into twelue bookes fashioning XII. morall vertues

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599); Smith, J C (1867-1946); Ashendene Press

1923

Colophon: Printed at the Ashendene press, at Shelley House, Chelsea,in the county of Middlesex, by C.H. St J. Hornby assisted by I. Jenkins, compositor, and G. Faulkner, pressman... One hundred and ei...

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Spenser's Minor poems

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599); Ashendene Press

1925

Colophon: Printed at the Ashendene Press, at Shelley House, Chelsea... by C. H. St J. Hornby with the help of J. Jenkins, compositor, & G. Faulkner, pressman ... Two hundred copies have been printed o...

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A descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene Press, MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV

Hornby, Charles Harry St John (1867-1946); Ashendene Press

1935

Colophon: This book, the last from the Ashendene Press, was printed... by C.H. St. J. Hornby. By C.H. St. John Hornby.

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