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. |