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Title

The tragedie of Hamlet prince of Denmarke. Edited by J. Dover Wilson...from the text of the second qvarto printed in 1604-5...with which are also printed the Hamlet stories from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest and English translations therefrom. Illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig.

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Publication

Weimar, Printed by Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1930.

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Additional Authors

• Saxo, Grammaticus, -approximately 1204.
• Belleforest, François de, 1530-1583.
• Wilson, John Dover, 1881-1969.
• Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966.

Description

186 p. illus.; 38 cm.

Note

• "There were printed for sale seven copies on vellum...marked A to G, fifteen copies on imperial Japanese paper...numbered I to XV, three hundred copies on the hand-made paper specially made for the Cranach Press, with the watermark of the Press, numbered 1 to 300. This is copy number 158."
• Notes on the text of Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1604 (35 p.) separately sewn, and provided with a pocket in the cover.

Call Number

8-*KP+ (Cranach) (Shakespeare, W. Plays. Hamlet. 1930. Tragedie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke)

OCLC

1086784

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Title

The tragedie of Hamlet prince of Denmarke. Edited by J. Dover Wilson...from the text of the second qvarto printed in 1604-5...with which are also printed the Hamlet stories from Saxo Grammaticus and Belleforest and English translations therefrom. Illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig.

Imprint

Weimar, Printed by Count Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1930.

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Added Author

Saxo, Grammaticus, -approximately 1204.

Belleforest, François de, 1530-1583.

Wilson, John Dover, 1881-1969.

Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966. Illustrator

Research Call Number

8-*KP+ (Cranach) (Shakespeare, W. Plays. Hamlet. 1930. Tragedie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke)