
Fig.1a: Portrait of C.R. Ashbee by William Strang. |

Fig.1b: Portrait of Janet Ashbee by William Strang. |

Fig.1c: Janet Ashbee and her daughters in Jerusalem. |

Fig.2a: A Mornynge Remembraunce - frontispiece by Ashbee. |

Fig.2b: A Mornynge Remembraunce - title page. |

Fig.3: Shelley's Adonais - frontispiece by Ashbee. |

Fig.4: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound - frontispiece by Ashbee. |

Fig.5: Walt Whitman's Hymn on the Death of President Lincoln - frontispiece by Ashbee. |

Fig.6: Goldsmith's Deserted Village - frontispiece by Ashbee. |

Fig.7: Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard - frontispiece by George Thomson. |

Fig.8: Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality - frontispiece by Walter Crane. |

Fig.9a: The Psalter or Psalms of David - a typical two page spread. |

Fig.9b: The Psalter or Psalms of David - angelic tailpiece and colophon. |

Fig.9c: The Psalter or Psalms of David - its unusually elaborate Essex House logo. |

Fig.10a: The Prayer Book of King Edward VII - frontispiece and title page. |

Fig.10b: The Prayer Book of King Edward VII - headpiece of the 8th contents page. |

Fig.10c: The Prayer Book of King Edward VII - title page for the section on the church calendar. |

Fig.10d: The Prayer Book of King Edward VII - headpiece to the section on morning prayer. |

Fig.10e: The Prayer Book of King Edward VII - headpiece to the section on Commination. |

Fig.10f: The Prayer Book of King Edward VII - colophon and Essex House logo. |

Fig.11: Opening poem from Ashbee's Echoes from the City of the Sun. |

Fig.12: Ashbee's symbolic drawing of the Soul of William Morris. |

Fig.13: Ashbee's design for a symbolic letter-head, inspired by William Blake. |

Fig.14a: C.R. Ashbee's letter-head rebus incorporating an Ash Tree and a Bee. |

Fig.14b: H.S. Ashbee's book-plate rebus incorporating an Ash Tree and a Bee. |

Fig.15a: The Rubaiyat - Ashbee's frontispiece and the opening two quatrains. |

Fig.15b: The Rubaiyat - colophon and Essex House logo. |