Mr. Edward Arnold's New and Popular Books, December, 1901 by Unknown
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Among the volumes expected to be published during the coming season are
the following: ERASMUS' Praise of Folly. SIR THOMAS CHALLONER'S Translation (Elizabethan). With a set of illustrations, borders, frontispiece, and initial by WILLIAM STRANG, and a cloth cover in motley by C.R. ASHBEE. 250 copies. £3 3s. The Psalms of David. This book will be in the new type with a fresh set of historiated 'bloomers' designed by C.R. ASHBEE. 250 copies. American Sheaves and English Seed Corn. Essays and Addresses by C.R. ASHBEE. The Essex House Song Book will be issued in about 100 folio sheets, three or four songs coming on to the sheet of four pages. The sheets will be printed red and black in the new type, with wood-cut embellishments, and uniform in size with the Essex House 'Shakespeare.' Three hundred copies only will be issued, of which 100 are reserved in the first instance for America. The sheets will be published in batches of about ten sheets at a time, at a cost of 1s. a sheet, and over a period of two or three years. Subscriptions can only be received for the whole work, payable as the sheets are ready for delivery. Subscribers to the regular series of Essex House Press Publications will not be expected to subscribe if they do not wish to do so, but will be given first refusal. Intending subscribers and persons who desire to receive announcements of the forthcoming publications are recommended to enter their names as |
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