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(CRANACH PRESS.) Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke. Printed in red and black. Typography arranged by Harry Kessler and designed by Edward Johnston; title-page designed by Eric Gill. Elegant woodcut illustrations by Edward Gordon Craig. Folio, gilt-lettered deep red morocco gilt by O. Dorfner, Weimar, early rebacking, retaining backstrip, quite soiled and unevenly darkened, extremities rubbed. Lacks the 35-page "Notes on the Text of Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1604" usually inserted into rear cover pocket; in its place is the epilogue to "The Cranach Press `Hamlet'" by Renate Müller-Krumbach, New York, 1971.number 24 of 300 copies printed on handmade paper. The Artist and the Book 66. Weimar, 1930
