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MOORE (HENRY) SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Hamlet, NUMBER 32 OF 1200 COPIES, Delfino Press, [1985] image 1
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MOORE (HENRY)
SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Hamlet, NUMBER 32 OF 1200 COPIES, Delfino Press, [1985]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MOORE (HENRY)

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Hamlet, NUMBER 32 OF 1200 COPIES, foreword by John Gielgud, and Stanley Wells, 10 colour offset lithographs by Henry Moore, captioned tissue guards, original brown morocco over thick wooden boards with bevelled edges, with rectangular bronze bas-relief 'Hamlet's Dilemna' by Moore mounted on upper cover, spine titled in gilt, without the original stand, folio (475 x 330mm.), Delfino Press, [1985]

Footnotes

"Hamlet must be rediscovered and reimagined in every generation... the work of book-designers and artists, too, can influence the way we see him" (John Gielgud, foreword). The bas-relief on the cover is a recasting of the reclining figure portion of "Relief: Three Quarters Mother and Child and Reclining Figure" (cf. A. Bowness, Henry Moore - Complete Sculpture. Volume 5, 1974-1980, 1983, no. 728).

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