Comments on: CR Ashbee In The East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/12/cr-ashbee-in-the-east-end/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:20:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Hetty Startup https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/12/cr-ashbee-in-the-east-end/#comment-1715068 Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:20:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128025#comment-1715068 Ashbee is one of my heroes – he also has the best penmanship (handwriting) I’ve ever seen.

]]> By: Jill eljadi https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/12/cr-ashbee-in-the-east-end/#comment-1076787 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:09:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128025#comment-1076787 Fabulous, fascinating, educative, mind opening and informative stuff as ever. Thankyou thankyou………

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/12/cr-ashbee-in-the-east-end/#comment-750751 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:01:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128025#comment-750751 CR Ashbee’s letter shows a little bit my own handwriting in my diary! Astonishingly!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

*** I AM CHARLIE ***

]]> By: Hugh Macfarlane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/12/cr-ashbee-in-the-east-end/#comment-750228 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:22:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128025#comment-750228 An excellent piece on C.R.Ashbee.
Just to expand on the Essex House Press, in the picture of the Print Shop the three pressmen on the right worked for William Morris, on the far right is Thomas Binning, master printer. Ashbee purchased the equipment of the Kelmscott Press, but not the Morris typefaces or blocks, and continued printing in the tradition of Morris. The first books produced continued to use Kelmscott watermarked paper, Ashbee later had his own handmade paper produced, with his watermark design. He later designed his own typefaces ‘Endeavour & Prayer Book’. One of the Albion presses was later sold to the American type designer & printer Frederic Goudy, which sold in 2013 for $233,000.00.
Further reading on Ashbee; C.R.Ashbee by Alan Crawford 1985, for Eseex House Press books, A Select Bibliography of Modern Presses by G.S.Tomkinson 1928.
Hugh Macfarlane
Private Press Printer

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/12/cr-ashbee-in-the-east-end/#comment-750155 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:47:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128025#comment-750155 A most interesting report, and I wish I could be there for the lecture. Valerie

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