Oct 01, 2014 - Sale 2358

Sale 2358 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CRAIG, EDWARD GORDON. A Production: Being Thirty-two Collotype Plates of Designs Projected or Realised for The Pretenders of Henrik Ibsen and Produced at the Royal Theatre Copenhagen 1926. 32 beautiful theatrical designs including 11 in color. Large folio (20 1/4x15 1/4 inches), gilt-stamped vellum-backed red cloth; top edges trimmed and gilt; original paper chemise and cloth slipcase, worn. Though out-of-series and unsigned, this copy reported to be that of printer humphrey milford and one of the 105 copies on Montval hand-made paper, from a total edition of 605. The Pretenders is considered second in importance only to the Moscow Hamlet. London: Oxford University Press, 1930