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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ESSEX HOUSE 
PRESS. 
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. 
A new type is being designed by Mr. C. R. Ashbee, and is nearly 
ready ; in the meantime the books of the Essex House Press are being 
printed in a fine eighteenth-century Caslon fount, with specially designed 
ornaments and initials. It is gratifying to note that the demand for the 
limited editions of the books already issued is steady and persistent, and 
it will probably not be long before they are out of print. 
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. 
The following volume of the Vellum Series is just ready : 
Keats’ Eve of St. Agnes. The second of the Vellum Series. It 
will be rubricated, and will contain a hand-coloured wood-block frontispiece by 
REGINALD SAVAGE. Edition limited to 125 copies. Price £2 net. 
