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CRANACH PRESS SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) [Hamlet] Die Tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenemark, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1929 image 1
CRANACH PRESS SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) [Hamlet] Die Tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenemark, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1929 image 2
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CRANACH PRESS
SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) [Hamlet] Die Tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenemark, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1929

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CRANACH PRESS

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) [Hamlet] Die Tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenemark, edited by Gerhart Hauptmann, number 85 of 230 copies on Maillol hand-made paper, from an overall edition of 255, type designed by Edward Johnston after the Mainz Psalter of 1457, title cut by Eric Gill, printed in red, black and occasionally blue, wood-engraved illustrations designed and cut by Edward Gordon Craig, some off-setting on endpapers, dark orange morocco gilt by O. Dorfner, Weimar (signed in gilt inside lower cover), spine titled and ruled in gilt in compartments within raised bands, t.e.g., preserved in fleece-lined solander box (slightly rubbed) [Artist and the Book 66; Ray. England, p.177], folio, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1929

Footnotes

"This is one of the most ambitious and successful books of the Cranach Press, with a fine harmony between the type page and the illustration" (The Artist and the Book, p. 52).

Provenance: Paul Hirsch (1881-1951). Loosely inserted are a small group of cuttings, ephemera and letters, including an autograph letter signed by Edward Gordon Craig ("Gordon Craig", Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 6 July 1939) to Hirsch mentioning Cambridge, and their friend Paul Cooper.

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