Ashendene Press

The Ashendene Press was an English private printing press, which had been founded in 1894 by Charles Harry St. John Hornby ( 1867-1946 ). It existed until 1935. As with the other private presses in England, impressed Hornby's personal literary taste and preferences in art, the look and the content of his printed books.

Together with the " Kelmscott Press " and the " Doves Press," made ​​the " Ashendene Press" a significant proportion of the English Arts reform, focused on the traditional printing trade and produced high-quality books as a protest against the machine substandard production. The published in 1909 "Dante" edition of the " Ashendene Press" is in their book artistic performance and design, similar to the " Chaucer " edition of the " Kelmscott Press ".

Hornby was the Emery Walker (1851-1933) to win as an employee for the press, designed with the help of Sydney C. Cockerell, former secretary of the " Kelmscott Press ", the " Subiaco -Type". For the development of the " Subiaco -Type", a Antiqua, Walker oriented to an early type of the 15th century, the printer Konrad Sweynheim († 1477 ) and Arnold Pannartz had used in Subiaco near Rome. Following the example of the 1482 edition published in Ulm " Cosmographia " of Ptolemy printed by Lienhart Holl, a second type for the " Ashendene Press" was developed that " Ptolemy -Type".

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• Friedrich Adolf Schmidt- Künsemüller: William Morris and the newer book art. Carl Wehmer (Ed.), Contributions to the Book and Library Science, Vol 4, Wiesbaden 1955, pp. 55-58
• Emery Walker Library