Shelfmark
Kd.2.04 - Kd.2.05 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kd.2.06 (copy 2)
Author
Uniform title
[Hamlet]
Title
The tragedie of Hamlet prince of Denmarke / edited by J. Dover Wilson...from the text of the second qvarto printed in 1604-5...with which are also printed the Hamlet stories from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest and English translations therefrom ; illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Weimar : Printed by Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, MDCCCCXXX [1930]
Physical description
186, [2] p., [1] portfolio : ill. ; 36 cm.
Note
Notes on the text of Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1604 (35 p.) separately sewn in blue paper wrappers, and provided with a pocket in the cover.
Note
"Count Harry Kessler planned the typographical arrangement of this volume. Edward Gordon Craig designed and himself cut on wood the illustrations. Eric Gill cut the title. The type ... was designed by Edward Johnston ..." - colophon.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Edition limited to 322 copies, of which 7 lettered copies on vellum for sale bound in Levant morocco with three extra sets of 51 loose proofs signed by the artist in a separate portfolio; 15 copies numbered I-XV on imperial Japanese paper containing a set of 24 proofs signed by the artist, some bound in vellum and others in levalt morocco, with a portfolio for the proofs; and 300 numbered copies on hand-made paper made for the Cranach Press, some bound in quarter holland and others in levant morocco.
Citation/references note
Fletcher, I.K. & Rood, A. Edward Gordon Craig: a bibliography (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967), C25
Provenance
Copy 1: Bookplate of Virginia Surtees [previously Clarke and née Bell].
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. inscription in pencil: "This book belonged to my uncle H. W. Bell ..."
Provenance
Copy 1: Ms. monogram in pencil of an A. [Ashley Clarke] and V. [Virginia Clarke] drawn (and signed and dated) by Edward Gordon Craig.
Provenance
Copy 2: Engraved bookplate of Pascoe Glyn.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: ECL copy is no. II of XV printed on Japanese vellum with a set of proofs of the illustrations in a brown book cloth portfolio, each being signed by the artist.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Bound in quarter cloth with pale blue paper boards; printed spine label.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Two loose prospectuses for this book loosely inserted at front; blank stationery note of Emery Walker inserted at p. 121.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Loosely interleaved with tissue paper guards.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: ECL copy is no. 142 of 300 ordinary copies bound in quarter cloth with pale blue paper boards and printed spine label.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Loose copy of a variant of the woodcut on p. 28 with erased pencil annotations inserted at front of volume.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Housed in a box with a copy of the German edition (Kd.2.07) and other materials related to the Cranach Press Hamlet in the Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Subject
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Saxo, Grammaticus, ? - d. ca. 1204 Grammaticus,
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Gill, Eric, 1882 - 1940 woodcutter.
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Kessler, Harry,, 1868 - 1937 printer.
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Johnston, Edward, 1872 - 1944 type designer.
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Surtees, Virginia former owner.
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Clarke, Ashley, 1903 - 1994 former owner.
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Bell, H. W. (Harold Wilmerding), ? - 1948 former owner.
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Glyn, Pascoe Anthony George, 1911 - 1935 former owner.
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Cranach Presse publisher.
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Germany Weimar.
Identifier
B28077