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RILKE, RAINER, MARIA - CRANACH & HOGARTH PRESS - Duineser Elegien. Elegies From the Castle of Duino.
Estimate:
$3,500 - $4,500
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$4,000
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167: Rare Books
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RILKE, RAINER, MARIA - CRANACH & HOGARTH PRESS
Duineser Elegien. Elegies From the Castle of Duino.
Translated from the German of Rilke by V. Sackville West and Edward Sackville West and signed by them. Printed by the Cranach Press and published by The Hogarth Press 1931. First edition. Number 62 of 230 numbered copies printed at the Cranach Press on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper with the watermark of the Cranach Press, Count Harry Kessler designed the format for the book; Eric Gill designed and personally cut the wood-engravings for the initials; the Italic type was designed by Edward Johnson and cut by E. Prince and G. T. Friend; the book was printed under the supervision of Count Kessler and Max Goertz. 255mm, bound in quarter vellum with buff-coloured papered boards gilt title to spine, top edge gilt. A few light spots of foxing on front boards and on endpapers. The book has been kept in a paper wrapper, which has kept it in lovely condition. The Duino Elegies (German: Duineser Elegien), a collection of ten elegies of Rilke's most famous work. Limited first edition, regarded as one of the most beautiful books to bear the Hogarth Press's imprint, and one of the scarcest.
Library of Richard Nunns.
Duineser Elegien. Elegies From the Castle of Duino.
Translated from the German of Rilke by V. Sackville West and Edward Sackville West and signed by them. Printed by the Cranach Press and published by The Hogarth Press 1931. First edition. Number 62 of 230 numbered copies printed at the Cranach Press on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper with the watermark of the Cranach Press, Count Harry Kessler designed the format for the book; Eric Gill designed and personally cut the wood-engravings for the initials; the Italic type was designed by Edward Johnson and cut by E. Prince and G. T. Friend; the book was printed under the supervision of Count Kessler and Max Goertz. 255mm, bound in quarter vellum with buff-coloured papered boards gilt title to spine, top edge gilt. A few light spots of foxing on front boards and on endpapers. The book has been kept in a paper wrapper, which has kept it in lovely condition. The Duino Elegies (German: Duineser Elegien), a collection of ten elegies of Rilke's most famous work. Limited first edition, regarded as one of the most beautiful books to bear the Hogarth Press's imprint, and one of the scarcest.
Library of Richard Nunns.
