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Ashendene Press

LC control no.n 81144054
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Corporate name headingAshendene Press
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Variant(s)Officina privata di Ashendene
Prelum Ashendenianum
Stamperia Ashendeniana
Stamperia di Ashendene
See alsoFounder: Hornby, Charles Harry St. John, 1867-1946
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Beginning date1894
Ending date1920
LocatedChelsea (London, England)
Field of activityFine books Letterpress printing
Found inUn mazzetto scelto di certi Fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo San Francesco di Assisi insiemo col Cantico al sole del medesimo, 1904: colophon (Stamperia di Ashendene, a Shelley House, Chelsea)
I fioretti del glorioso poverello di Christo S. Francesco di Assisi, 1922: colophon (Officina privata di Ashendene)
Il libro di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, cittadino fiorentino, chiamato il Decameron, 1920: imprint on t.p. (Nella stamperia Ashendeniana)
Publii Vergilii Maronis Opera, 1910: t.p. imprint (Apud Prelum Ashendenianum)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 15, 2014 (Established by C.H. St. J. Hornby 1894 at Ashendene, Hertfordshire; 1899 moved to Shelley House, Chelsea, London.)
Wikipedia, 9 September 2016 (Ashendene Press; small private press founded by St John Hornby (1867-1946). It operated from 1895 to 1915 in Chelsea, and was revived after the war in 1920. The press closed in 1935)