Shakespeare, William. The tragedie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke

Folger bibliographic ID: 266343
Folger call number: PR2807 1930 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 486901
Accession Number: 208097

General notes

Title and text headings in red and black "Count Harry Kessler planned the typographical arrangement ... Edward Gordon Craig designed and himself cut on wood the illustrations. Eric Gill cut the title. The type ... was designed by Edward Johnston"--colophon "Seven copies on vellum, containing three extra sets of loose proofs signed by the artist, marked A to G, fifteen copies on imperial Japanese paper, containing one set of loose proofs signed by the artist, numbered I to XV, three hundred copies on the hand-made paper ... with the watermark of the press, numbered 1 to 300"--colophon Wilson's "Notes on The tragedie of Hamlet" (35 pages ; 35 cm) in pocket

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1983-1985. Unknown exhibition. Opening: page 166 (PR2807) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1989. Shakespeare: The Works. Opening: pages 80-81 (PR2807) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Extending the Book. Opening: pages 94-95 (PR2807)

Item information about Folger PR2807 1930 Sh.Col

Red leather binding with gilt tops. The name "G. Hauptmann" engraved on the spine is probably an error, referring to the translator of the original German Cranach Press Hamlet. Notes on the text of Shakespeare's Hamlet (35 pages) has been bound in volume after play; no pocket is present. "This copy is not for sale; it was printed for Count Harry Kessler."--colophon

Uniform title: Hamlet. 1930
Extended title: The tragedie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke / William Shakespeare ; edited by J. Dover Wilson from the text of the second quarto printed in 1604-5, "according to the true and perfect coppie" ; with which are also printed the Hamlet stories from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest and English translations therefrom ; illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig

Hamlet (Legendary character) Kings and rulers Murder victims' families Fathers Revenge Denmark Princes

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Hamlet (Legendary character)
contributor: Saxo, Grammaticus, -approximately 1204
contributor: Belleforest, François de, 1530-1583
editor: Wilson, John Dover, 1881-1969
illustrator: Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966
printer: Kessler, Harry, Graf, 1868-1937
type designer: Johnston, Edward, 1872-1944
engraver: Gill, Eric, 1882-1940
binder: Mowery, John Franklin
former owner: Weinmann, Eric
donor: Weinmann, Mary
former owner: Kessler, Harry, Graf, 1868-1937
copyright holder: Cranach Presse