Cranach Press (13 results)

self-paper wrappers. 4to. self-paper wrappers. 14 pages. A history and bibliography of the press. With the private bookplate of the H.P. Kraus Reference Library on the inside front cover. A near fine copy. Decorated with woodcuts. This is an English translation of the 1931 Cranach Press edition done by Gallery 303 and John Dreyfus and Heide Gekeler. Cranach Press (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. DESCRIPTION; THE ECLOGUES OF VERGIL IN THE ORIGINAL LATIN WITH AN ENGLISH PROSE TRANSLATION BY J. H. MASON_____No. 124 of 225 copies (25 not for sale) of the bilingual Latin / English edition. Small folio 13 x 10 inches (32.7 x 25.7 cm), [1-3], 4-110, [10] pages. Maroon full morocco binding with seven raised bands and gilt titling on spine by W. H. Smith & Sons with their gilt stamp at bottom inside rear cover. Printed letterpress with roman type derived from that used by Nicolas Jenson in 1473 and italic type designed by Edward Johnston. The paper is a special handmade paper devised jointly by Count Harry Kessler and Aristide & Gaspard Maillol of pure hemp fiber and linen. Illustrated with 43 woodcuts by Aristide Msillol. Title page header and initials cut by Eric Gill. Top edge gilt, other edges of text block uncut. Protected with an archival Grafix Dura-Lar dust wrapper and housed in a custom slipcase covered with marbled paper that complements the maroon leather binding._____CONDITION: Small ex-libris centered inside the front pastedown. Slight rubbing at top and bottom raised spine bands and corner tips of binding covers (see photos). Usual browning around periphery of front and rear free endplates (blank) from leather binding turn-ins (a normal finding). Interior pages in fine condition without the foxing usually seen in this edition. Overall, a NF to borderline fine copy._____DISCUSSION: This is a true livre d'artiste edition generously illustrated with woodcuts by famed French sculptor Aristide Maillol, thought by many to be the equal of their Cranach Press edition of The Tragedie of Hamlet. The bilingual Latin / English edition in the deluxe full morocco binding by W. H. Smith & Sons is scarce and desirable. Of note, the unusual handmade Kessler-Maillol hemp fiber and linen paper is exceptionally prone to foxing. This is a rare copy without ANY foxing whatsoever._____NOTE: International shipping cost using USPS Priority Mail Express International to the United Kingdom and Europe is $65 U.S. dollars . Shipping cost to more distant locations may incur additional cost. Aristide Maillol (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark gray cloth boards. Dust jacket folds are a bit askew. 5 3/4"w x 7 3/8"h. 80 pages. Five sketches on English actor and stage designer Gordon Craig accompanying five unpublished works (drawings) by Craig. No date shown; circa 1980's. Keywords: Theatre, Drama, Stage, Plays, Actor, Gordon Craig, Peter Loeffler, English, Unpublished, Tribute.…

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. later edition. Cranach Press. William Shakespeare, Die Tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenemark in Deutscher sprache, translated by Gerhart Hauptmann, illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig, Weimar: Cranach Presse, 1929, facsimile edition, New York: Benjamin Blom, 1972, text printed in red and black on pale cream laid paper, 74 woodcut illustrations by Edward Gordon Craig, typography designed by Edward Johnston, printed in red and black in double column, 8 pp. account of the printing of the Cranach Press Hamlet in pocket to rear pastedown, top edge gilt, vellum-backed boards, lettered to spine and upper cover in orange, a Fine copy, with original slipcase some minor wear to extremities, folio.…

Half Vellum. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcased. Facsimile. Fine but for minor rubbing to edges. Internally fine, and apparently unread. Top edge gilt. Facsimile of the Cranach Press edition. Gordon Craig woodcuts. Folder in back contains an explanatory pamphlet, in German published in 1967. Slipcase is quite rubbed and scuffed, but still solid. Craig, Gordon (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. [2], 4-31pp, [3]. Publishers quarter vellum with vellum tips to corners, title lettered in gilt to spine, t.e.g. Spine very slightly dulled, otherwise bright and clean. With a prospectus for the book, and another for previous publications of the Cranach Press laid in loosely, and with the original cardboard slipcase. Now housed in a cloth drop back box by Temple Bookbinders. Number one of two hundred standard copies (numbers 1-10 were not for sale), with another sixty on Japanese paper, and eight on vellum. With eleven wood engravings and eighteen initials by Eric Gill. Latin text. From the library of John Buckland Wright, but with no indication of this. Brinks, 'The Book As A Work of Art - The Cranach Press 1913-1931', 91 Size: 4to. Gill, Eric (illustrator). Limited Edition.…

No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition. Folio. 116p. Printed on Maillol-Kessler paper hand-made from pure hemp fibre and linen, and sold by Emery Walker. Eric Gill designed and cut the title and lettering around and fourteen initials ornamented by Maillol. With forty-three illustrations drawn and cut in wood by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). Set by Erich Dressler and Walter Tanz in Jensen roman and Johnston italic. Bound in full crimson crushed morocco with simple vertical gilt spine title of artist and author, t.e.g. (The binding is signed in blind on the rear turn-in which is hard to decipher, but we believe it to be W.L. Smith & Sons). The Book as a Work of Art, The Cranach press of Count Harry Kessler, no. 67; The Artist & The Book, no. 172. Occasional light spotting to the text, else fine with slight bumps to outer corners No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition of this translation and first edition in English. Translated from the German by V. Sackville-West and Edward Sackville-West. Large octavo. 132pp. Quarter vellum gilt and lavender paper-covered boards, topedge gilt. Text in English and German on facing pages. Small owner name stamp and Johannesburg bookseller ticket on front pastedown, a little scattered foxing else a near fine copy in very good or better spine-tanned original unprinted dust jacket and original unprinted slipcase with a bit of browning and moderate wear. Copy number 179 of 230 numbered copies Signed by Vita and Edward Sackville-West. Beautifully designed and produced, Count Harry Kessler planned the format of this volume, Eric Gill designed and cut the initials on wood, and printed for the Hogarth Press by the Cranach Press on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper with the watermark of the Cranach Press. Seldom found in dust jacket and box.…

Hardcover. First edition. 31 pages, 26 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 180 of 200 designed by Count Harry Kessler: printed in red and black in Jenson Antiqua on hand-made Maillol Kessler paper with watermark of the Cranach Press. 11 wood engraved illustrations (seven are full page) and 18 initials by Eric Gill. Laid-in, "Former Publications Of The Cranach Press." which lists three tittles -- The Ecologues of Virgil, Hamlet & The Duinese Elegies. An almost as new copy save for a few small toned fore-edge spots. THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK. 121. EVAN GILL 284. Quarter vellum and gilt lettered tan parchment boards. Fine in fine plain wrapper in matching fine board slipcase.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. DESCRIPTION: Tall narrow octavo (8vo.), 10 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (262 x 136 mm), 31 pp. No. 107 of 200 copies on paper, total editions of 268 copies. Quarter vellum binding with gilt titling and pink buff paper over boards with vellum tips. Top edge gilt. Printed in red and black in Jenson Antiqua on hand-made Maillol Kessler paper with watermark of the Cranach Press. 11 wood-engraved illustrations (7 full page) and 18 initials by Eric Gill. Text in Latin. Original dust wrapper, all protected with a clear archival Grafix Dura Lar dust wrapper. Custom marbled paper slipcase.____CONDITION: Near fine. Faint (barely discernible) spotting to front free endplate, front pastedown and fore-edge of text block otherwise fine. Paper dust wrapper with browned backstrip and light chipping at edges.____DISCUSSION: Unusually fine, somber wood engravings by Eric Gill, notably different from his work with the Golden Cockerel Press._____ NOTE: International shipping cost with USPS International Priority Mail to Canada and the United Kingdom is $65 U.S. dollars. Shipping cost to more distant locations may incur additional cost. Eric Gill (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 31, [3] pages. Numbered to the colophon - 6 of the 268 copies printed. In the original paper covered boards with vellum spine. The dustwrapper is spotted and browned with some tears. In the original card slipcase which is browned and stained. Modern ink presentation inscription to the front free end paper. The following leaf has had the tip of the outer upper corner cut away, presumably to remove a name. some spotting to pages throughout. This the edition in Latin. Eric Gill (illustrator).…

161/200 COPIES (from an edition of 268) printed on Maillol-Kessler handmade paper, running-titles printed in red, 11 wood-engravings (7 full-page) and 18 initials, all designed by Eric Gill, one or two light spots, pp. 31, tall crown 8vo, original quarter vellum with pink boards, vellum-tipped corners, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed with some light spotting, a few faint spots to endpapers also, front pastedown with the elegant bookplate of James L. Thielman, plain dustjacket with browned backstrip panel and lightly chipped at extremities, slipcase, very good. The text printed entirely in Latin; German and French language editions were also issued, using the same engravings.…

365 x 242 mm. (14 1/4 x 9 1/2"). 202 pp., [1] leaf.Translated by Gerhart Hauptmann. FINE ORIGINAL BURNT ORANGE MOROCCO by O. Dorfner of Weimar (signed on rear turn-in), covers with single gilt-ruled border, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, gilt spine titling, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In a fine matching morocco-lipped slipcase lined with fleece. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts in the text by Edward Gordon Craig; this copy WITH TWO FULL-SIZE VELLUM LEAVES CONTAINING PRINTED WOODCUTS AND SIGNED BY CRAIG laid in. Printed in red and black. With the Hamlet stories from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest in Latin and French in margins surrounding the text. With Prospectus laid in at front. Schröder, p. 9; Franklin, p. 164; Ransom, p. 253; "A Century for the Century" 21 (English version). Spine gently and evenly sunned to a less reddish brown, traces of white residue from leather preservative to front board, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, the binding unworn, and IMMACULATE INTERNALLY. A deservedly famous combination of visual daring, printing artistry, and textual scholarship, this is one of the major achievements of private press printing. Undertaken in what Franklin calls "a perfectionist spirit," the book brings together the most glittering names in English and German private printing at the time. In addition to the presence of the woodcuts by Craig, the typographical arrangement of the volume was done by Count Harry Kessler, the title was cut by Eric Gill, the type (in 18-, 12-, and 10-point black letter) was designed by Edward Johnston after that used by Fust and Schoeffer in their Mainz Psalter of 1457, and was cut by Edward Prince (completed after his death by G. T. Friend), and the paper was made by a process devised jointly by Kessler and Aristide and Gaspard Maillol. Franklin says that "anybody who examines the Cranach Press 'Hamlet' must agree it is worthy of its reputation. The paper, superficially like Bachelor's Kelmscott, seems softer and more friendly, appropriate for the expressionist style of Craig's woodcuts. . . . These designs, and Gill's in the Golden Cockerel Chaucer, form the bravest artistic adventure among all private press books." It is increasingly difficult to find well preserved copies of this title, especially in Otto Dorfner bindings. Master binder Dorfner (1885-1955) taught at the School of Applied Arts in Weimar and at the Bauhaus school before founding his own to teach the craft. He was awarded a number of international awards for his bindings, and is particularly noted for his work with the Cranach Press. Dorfner was held in high enough esteem to merit inclusion on the Nazi's"Gottbegnadeten List"("God-gifted list" or "Important Artist Exempt List") of artists essential to Nazi culture. This 36-page list, assembled in September 1944 byJoseph Goebbels andAdolf Hitler, exempted the named artists from mobilization in the final stages of World War II. No. 8 OF 230 COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER, of a total edition of 255. …