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Since 1957, The Ashantilly Press and Mr. William (Bill) Haynes, Jr., have provided the local community and poetry lovers everywhere the opportunity to own a personally designed, illustrated, and printed edition of Sidney Lanier's The Marshes of Glynn. This year will be no different. Mr. Haynes has produced a limited edition of The Marshes of Glynn that is now available for purchase at $35.00 each. The benefits from the sale of the book will go toward future projects at Ashantilly Center.
The Ashantilly Press edition of The Marshes of Glynn is printed on handmade paper. The illustrations were designed by Bill Haynes and hand cut in linoleum blocks. The type for the book was hand set and the pages printed on the Chandler & Price press located at the Ashantilly Press.
Ashantilly Center would like to express its deep appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fendig, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Braswell, and Mr. and Mrs. John J. Rogers of St. Simons Island who generously provided the funding for the printing of the new edition of The Marshes of Glynn. These local couples recognized what a treasure this little book is and saw the need to have it reprinted.
Map of Fort King George: Silk Screen Print
This beautiful print was done by artist and award-winning printer, William G. "Bill" Haynes, Jr., in 1955. It is a limited edition silk screen print created by hand on cotton rag paper. It was the start of Ashantilly Press, a small private press that would produce many beautiful books, some with distinctive block-print illustrations created by Bill Haynes.
The Ashantilly Press was established in 1955 in Darien, Georgia, by William G. Haynes, Jr. and his wife, Natalie E. Haynes. The first project was a 17" x 22" six color, Silk Screen Print of A Plan of Fort King George, as it was Fortified in 1726. Bill and Natalie Haynes printed this Map in the South Room of Ashantilly House in the winter of 1955.
The drawing of this 1726 Map of Fort King George was suggested to Bill Haynes by local historian, Miss Bessie Lewis. As his primary resource, Haynes used the original Chart made by Colonel John Barnwell, who built the Fort in 1721, the first English Settlement in Georgia.
The bird's eye view illustration depicts Fort King George with Blockhouse and Palisades. Inserts show the Altamaha Delta with the relationship of Darien to the Fort, and the River from the Fort to St. Simons Island as charted by the Elizabeth Sloop, 1722.
To order by mail, send check or money order for $200 plus $5 for shipping and handling (in US, Total $205) to:
Ashantilly Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 1449
Darien, GA 31305