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Lot 2109

CRANACH PRESS.

11 June 2008, 13:00 EDT
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CRANACH PRESS.

William Shakespeare. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarcke. Weimar: Printed by Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1930. Illustrated with 80 wood-engravings by Edward Gordon Craig, two touched with color. Title illustration by Eric Gill. Folio. Original quarter vellum and boards, gilt-lettered on spine and upper cover, top edge gilt. Supplement booklet in pocket at rear. A few faint spots on rear endpaper, still fine.

Limited edition, no 77 of 300 copies. This copy in quarter vellum. Apart from the 50 deluxe copies bound in red morocco, most copies are in quarter cloth and boards. The grandest achievement of the Cranach Press and one of the greatest fine press editions of any play by Shakespeare. The Artist and the Book 66; Ransom 253; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, p 177.
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