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

Folger bibliographic ID: 266343
Folger call number: Sh.Col. 267- 393f item 1
Folger holdings ID: 352230
Accession Number: 267393

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 Sh.Col. 267- 393f item 1

Gift of Mary Weinmann. Number 165 of the edition. Bound by Frank Mowery. With letterpress inscription on binding inside front cover "To Eric from Mary July 29, 1983." Binding stamped JFM'83 inside back cover. Loose description of binding on JFM letterhead inside front cover. Housed in custom box with Sh.Col. 267- 393.2f, a separately bound Notes on the text of Shakespeare's Hamlet; no pocket is present

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