Comments on: The C R Ashbee Lecture 2016 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/28/the-c-r-ashbee-lecture-2016/ 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, 28 Sep 2016 06:52:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Hugh Macfarlane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/28/the-c-r-ashbee-lecture-2016/#comment-1109165 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:52:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150135#comment-1109165 Dear Gentle author,

I would like to make a correction to your excellent blog.
When William Morris died his presses were not given to the Essex House Press, Sydney Cockerell and F.S.Ellis were left with the problem of disposing of Morris’s library, press’s and equipment. A wealthy brewer, Laurence Hodson and friend of C.R.Ashbee, financed and negotiated the deal for the two Albion press’s and equipment for the Essex House Press, the hand cut blocks and borders went to the British Library, the type and ornaments went to the Chiswick press. Ashbee also employed three of Morris’s printers, Thomas Binning and J. Tippett, compositors, and Stephen Mowlem, Pressman. Asbee wanted to carry on the the tradition that Morris had started. The Essex House Press produced 94 hand printed books and Pamphlets, Ashbee also published 94 works.
A book for more on Ashbee is. C.R.Ashbee. Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist by Alan Crawford, it has been out of print for many years.
Keep up the excellent work
Hugh

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/28/the-c-r-ashbee-lecture-2016/#comment-1109161 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:02:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150135#comment-1109161 What wonderful deeds.
I remember hearing that thing about a hundred plus east enders moving to the countryside with him. They must have felt so inspired and I bet very happy.
What a great chap.

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