From The Ashendene Press. By Colin Franklin. Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 1986.

From Les Amours Pastorales De Daphnis Et Chloe. From J. Amyot's Translation [of the work by Longus]. Reprinted and edited by Paul-Louis Courir. Ashendene Press, 1933.

• Founded in 1895 by Charles Henry St. John Hornby in Chelsea, England.
  
• Operation of press continued until 1935, but ceased operation between 1915-1920 due to WWI.  
• Ashendene resurrected the Subiaco typeface, an Italian type created in the 1460s.
  
• The press functioned as a subscription service, selling small print runs and books.
  
• Books were often illustrated with colored intials and leather tooled bindings.
  
• Dante's Divine Comedy is considered the masterpiece of the press, printed in three volumes between 1905-1905.
  
• Bibliographer Colin Franklin remarks, "One quality of a private press in the printer's own choice without reference to any public, and this characterizes the whole story of the Ashendene Press."
  

From (Bible) The Wisdom of Jesus, The Son of Sirach, Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus. Ashendene Press, 1932.