[Fine Binding | Essex House Press] American Sheaves & English Seed Corn Extra Illustrated with the top edge gauffered

with the top edge gauffered and painted with leaves and flowers

Initials and 15 full page illustrations in the style of stained glass windows by Thomas Meteyard

and Company

also in Chicago

Spine "bleached" to a lighter shade than covers

[Fine Binding | Essex House Press] American Sheaves & English Seed Corn Extra Illustrated with the top edge gaufferedAshbee, C. R. American Sheaves & English Seed Corn: Being a Series of Addresses Mainly Delivered in the United States, 1900 1901. Printed at the Essex House Press by Ashbee. London: Edward Arnold; New York: Samuel Buckley, 1901. Limited to 300 copies, of which this is #288. Large decorative initials printed in red and black. Bound in full dark brown crushed morocco by W. Moss (signed on the lower inner board), with front cover featuring the full title