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CRANACH PRESS -- Canticum Canticorum Salominis quod hebraice dicitur Sir Hasirim. [Weimar]: Cranach Press, 1931.
Tall 8o. Printed in red and black, initials and 11 wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill. Full red morocco, gilt-lettered on cover, top edges gilt, others uncut, by O. Dorfner; plain dust jacket.
LIMITED EDITION, number 199 of 200 copies on Maillol-Kessler hand-made paper, of an edition of 268. This issue was normally bound in quarter vellum, but this copy is BOUND IN THE DELUXE FULL MOROCCO BINDING normally reserved for the remaining 68 copies, of which 8 were printed on vellum and 60 on Japan. The Artist & the Book 121 ("designed and printed with great distinction"); Gill 284.
Tall 8o. Printed in red and black, initials and 11 wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill. Full red morocco, gilt-lettered on cover, top edges gilt, others uncut, by O. Dorfner; plain dust jacket.
LIMITED EDITION, number 199 of 200 copies on Maillol-Kessler hand-made paper, of an edition of 268. This issue was normally bound in quarter vellum, but this copy is BOUND IN THE DELUXE FULL MOROCCO BINDING normally reserved for the remaining 68 copies, of which 8 were printed on vellum and 60 on Japan. The Artist & the Book 121 ("designed and printed with great distinction"); Gill 284.