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n. (surname: English)
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Ashbee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Barry Ashbee (1939–1977), Canadian ice hockey player
- Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942), English designer and entrepreneur
- Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900), English merchant, book collector, writer, and bibliographer
- Ian Ashbee (born 1976), English footballer
- Paul Ashbee (1918–2009), British archaeologist
- William Neville Ashbee (1852-1919), British railway architect
Usage examples of "ashbee".
What we know of Sellon comes mostly from this autobiography, with additional commentary from the writings of his good friend, Henry Spencer Ashbee, and portions of the other prose, verse, art and letters that he left behind.
Dugdale chose eight of these to be made up in lithograph to accompany his first edition of the book, which appeared in 1867, and consisted of 110 pages of text, to which he appended a note concerning the abruptness of the ending of the book (Ashbee comments that the final note was written by Sellon himself).
It is in the form of a letter, dated 4 March 1866, sent most likely to Ashbee himself.
Mr Lilly's statements on book-collecting echo those of Ashbee, but in all other respects he is entirely fictitious.
Spencer Ashbee to devote a three-volume work - Index Librorum Prohibitorum - to listing and describing them.