Katharine Adams, C.H. StJ. Hornby and the Ashendene Press, 2000 / by P.M.S. Corley.

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Katharine Adams, C.H. StJ. Hornby and the Ashendene Press, 2000 / by P.M.S. Corley.

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Photocopied typescript monograph consisting of excerpted letters, 1898-1945, between bookbinder Katharine Adams and Charles Harry St. John Hornby, founder of the Ashendene Press, with description and analysis by Corley. The correspondence concerns Adams as a collector and binder of Ashendene Press books, and binder of other books for Hornby. Also included are lists of Ashendene Press books collected by Adams (with notes on each book), accounts between her and the Press, 1903-1905, and bindings by her commissioned by Hornby.

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C.H. St. J. Hornby founded the Ashendene Press in 1894. Between 1899 and 1933, Katharine Adams completed over 100 bindings for the Press and Hornby. From the description of Katharine Adams, C.H. StJ. Hornby and the Ashendene Press, 2000 / by P.M.S. Corley. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 50393178 ...