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[Private Press] [Essex House Press] Bourdillon, Francis William Through the Gateway

Bourdillon, Francis William
Through the Gateway
(London: Essex House Press, 1900). First and limited edition, #33/50 numbered copies. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on leaf following title-page: "To A.L. Humphrey from F.W. Bourdillon Feb. 1902." 12mo. (vi), 48, 2 pp. Publisher’s vellum-covered boards, stamped in gilt; edges untrimmed; small soiling in gutter, pp. 32-33.

A near-fine presentation copy of the Essex House Press’s tenth publication, inscribed by the author, poet and bibliophile, Francis William Bourdillon, to bookseller and publisher Arther Lee Humphreys, a partner at Hatchards of Piccadilly. The Essex House Press was founded by C.R. Ashbee in 1898 with the aim of continuing the revival of hand-printing led by William Morris and his Kelmscott Press. To that end, following Morris's death, Essex House acquired the Albion pr