Letter from C.H. St. John Hornby to “the President of the Grolier Club,” (i.e. Samuel Putnam Avery)

Hornby’s letter presents this copy of Milton’s poems, along with another Ashendene Press publication, to the Grolier Club, stating, “The only interest that I can claim for them is that they are genuinely amateur productions, as the type has been set up and the printing done entirely with my own hands. Amateur printers are, I believe, a rarity – I only know of one other in England, Mr. Daniel, of Worcester College Oxford – and I thought, therefore, that my small volumes might not be unacceptable to a Club of Book lovers like yourselves.”