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Essex House Press. The Masque of the Edwards of England: Being a Coronation Pageant to Celebrate the Crowning of the King, by C.R. Ashbee and Edith Harwood, Essex House Press, 1902, 18 hand-coloured lithographed plates, including 17 full-page, some heightened with white or silver, presentation inscription in blue ink to front endpaper from Janet and Charles Ashbee to the Nason family: 'To Muriel, Alice, Cuthbert, Paul, Philip, Mary, Margaret, John & Elizabeth Nason; Xmas 05; From their friends Janet & Charley', untrimmed, inner hinges slightly loosened, original tan cloth, some light marks and stains to covers, oblong folio, limited edition 154 of 300 copies on paper (an additional 20 copies were printed on vellum), together with: The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Metalwork and Sculpture, made into English from the Italian of the Marcian Codex by C.R. Ashbee, Essex House Press, 1898, 11 monochrome plates after photographs, several illustrations and some decorations to text, publisher's advertisement to verso of final leaf, partly uncut, and untrimmed, original publisher's cloth with paper label to spine, lightly rubbed, folio, limited edition 507/600 (Qty: 2) The first work is a presentation copy from the Ashbees to Reverend Muriel Nason, the vicar of Saintbury Church, and his family. The Ashbees switched allegiance from their local church in Chipping Campden to Saintbury Church on the other side of Dover's Hill after they had scandalised with a bicycle ride to Warwick on the Lord's Day in June 1902, making it uncomfortable for them to continue regular worship in Chipping Campden. The Ashbees were often invited to lunch by the Reverend Nason after the Sunday service; this presentation copy is thus a first Christmas present from the Ashbees to their new vicar and his family.