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ESSEX HOUSE PRESS PUBLICATIONS.

MR. EDWARD ARNOLD has much pleasure in calling attention to the fact
that almost without exception these interesting books have all been
bought up and become out of print before publication, while one or two
that have found their way into the sale-rooms have commanded a high
premium.

These books are printed at Essex House, on the presses used by the late
Mr. William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, which were purchased by the
Guild of Handicraft. Members of Mr. Morris's staff are also retained at
the Essex House Press, and it is the hope of the Guild of Handicraft by
this means to continue in some measure the tradition of good printing
and fine workmanship which William Morris revived.

Subscribers to the complete series of Essex House Publications are given
priority for any new book issued, and the number of subscribers is
constantly increasing.

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. L3 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
soon as possible.

The Public