Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Cranach Press. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
Gesammelte Gedichte [Collected Poems].

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1930-1934.

Limited edition, four volumes, octavo; no. 41 of 200 numbered copies on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper, from a total edition of 225; German text printed in red and black; woodcut titles and initials by Eric Gill, with Cranach Press devices printed in red below colophon; all volumes bound quarter vellum over tan boards by Gerhard Prade, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt; each housed in a custom slipcase; 10 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.

Eric Gill (1991) 342.