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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmark edited by J. Dover Wilson Litt. D. from the text of the second quarto printed in 1604-5 'According to the true and perfect coppie'. With which are also printed the Hamlet stories from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest and English translations therefrom. Weimar: Die Cranach Presse, 1930.
2° (354 x 238mm). Title and half-title printed from type by Eric Gill. Title and text printed in red and black. Woodcut half-title illustration and 79 woodcut illustrations by and after Edward Gordon Craig, one printed in black and blue, another finished by hand in red. Crushed red morocco gilt by Otto Dorfner, Weimar, covers with borders of gilt fillets, upper cover lettered in gilt and decorated with a design after Craig, gilt-ruled turn-ins, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in 4, top edge gilt, others trimmed (extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly darkened), pocket on lower pastedown containing J. Dover Wilson's Notes on the Text of Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1604 ([Weimar: 1930], printed on Maillol-Kessler hand-made paper in red and black). Provenance Louis B. Grabosky (bookplate on upper pastedown).
LIMITED TO 322 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 31 OF 300 ON MAILLOL-KESSLER HAND-MADE PAPER. The English edition contains 6 additional woodcuts by Craig not present in the German edition of 1929. Garvey The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 66; Gill Eric Gill (1991) 341; Müller-Krumbach 'Katalog' 48.
2° (354 x 238mm). Title and half-title printed from type by Eric Gill. Title and text printed in red and black. Woodcut half-title illustration and 79 woodcut illustrations by and after Edward Gordon Craig, one printed in black and blue, another finished by hand in red. Crushed red morocco gilt by Otto Dorfner, Weimar, covers with borders of gilt fillets, upper cover lettered in gilt and decorated with a design after Craig, gilt-ruled turn-ins, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in 4, top edge gilt, others trimmed (extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly darkened), pocket on lower pastedown containing J. Dover Wilson's Notes on the Text of Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1604 ([Weimar: 1930], printed on Maillol-Kessler hand-made paper in red and black). Provenance Louis B. Grabosky (bookplate on upper pastedown).
LIMITED TO 322 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 31 OF 300 ON MAILLOL-KESSLER HAND-MADE PAPER. The English edition contains 6 additional woodcuts by Craig not present in the German edition of 1929. Garvey The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 66; Gill Eric Gill (1991) 341; Müller-Krumbach 'Katalog' 48.
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