Mr. Ashbee's occasional fac-simile reprints (limited to 100 copies of each)
A facsimile reprint issued in London in 1868 by Edmund William Ashbee, limited to 100 copies and printed for subscribers only, reproducing early English chapbook material. The pictures are crude black-and-white woodcuts: a bearded robed figure, a seated scholar beside a decorated initial letter, a grotesque face within an oval frame, and a row of armoured horsemen and soldiers with a veiled woman offering a cup. A designer might take from them the blunt line work and framing of early print decoration.
