ASHBEE, C. R.

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American Sheaves & English Seed Corn: First edition, number 7 of 300 copies. The text of eight lectures or addresses originally delivered by Charles Ashbee in the United States in 1900 to 1901 on behalf of the National Trust as part of his endeavours to make "the work and objects of the society known in the United States".Ashbee notes in the preface to this volume that he served on the Council of the National Trust from 1896 to 1901. During his tenure "a series of lectures and addresses on behalf of the National Trust was planned" for delivery in the United States. Titles include "On the Purpose of the National Trust", "The Abbeys of England in the Light of a Lesson in Citizenship", "Chelsea: or the Village of Palaces" and "Of Certain Aspects of English Apathy".Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft was founded in 1888 at Essex House in the Mile End Road, in the East End of London. The Essex House Press was added to Ashbee's enterprise when William Morris's Kelmscott Press closed and Ashbee took over the presses and some of the staff. The Kelmscott fonts were not available and Ashbee therefore designed his own in which he "sought to follow upon the lines laid down by Morris". This present book is printed in the "Endeavour" type. In addition to the press, the Guild of Handicraft operated a bindery. Early designs were by Douglas Cockerell and, later, Annie Power. Marianne Tidcombe in Women Bookbinders notes that the bindings "designed by Annie Power are signed with a monogram of her init

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