Price: £3,750
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 1931
Stock Number: 72422
(Cranach Presse.) GILL (Eric)
Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, Quod Hebraice Dicitur Sir Hasirim.
Description: 161/200 COPIES (from an edition of 268) printed on Maillol-Kessler handmade paper, running-titles printed in red, 11 wood-engravings (7 full-page) and 18 initials, all designed by Eric Gill, one or two light spots, pp. 31, tall crown 8vo, original quarter vellum with pink boards, vellum-tipped corners, backstrip lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed with some light spotting, a few faint spots to endpapers also, front pastedown with the elegant bookplate of James L. Thielman, plain dustjacket with browned backstrip panel and lightly chipped at extremities, slipcase, very good
Publication Details: Weimar: Cranach Press, 1931
Notes: The text printed entirely in Latin; German and French language editions were also issued, using the same engravings.
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