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W. Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / in block prints by D.N.S.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection Oblong NE1215.S8 A5 1949
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stewart, Dorothy N. (Dorothy Newkirk), 1891-1955, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet--Illustrations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Stewart, Dorothy N. (Dorothy Newkirk), 1891-1955.
- Stewart, Dorothy N.
- Genre:
- Artists' books.
- Pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 34 unnumbered pages (on double-leaves) : color illustrations ; 19 x 37 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Hamlet
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico : Pictograph Press, c1949.
- Notes:
- Title from cover.
- Excerpts from the text accompany the block prints.
- D.N.S. identified as Dorothy Newkirk Stewart.
- In illustrated cloth covered boards with decorated paste papers.
- "Block printed by hand, type distributed after 100 impressions."
- Limited edition of 100 impressions.
- Cover title.
- "Block printed by hand; type distributed after 100 impressions." This is copy no 61.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Furness copy is no. 64 of 100.
- RBC copy with inscription on first blank page: For George with love from Eulalia and Constance. New York 1951.
- Furness copy acquired in 2017 from Boston Book Company.
- Athenaeum copy: "A book about D.N.S." (16 p.) laid in.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Mrs. F. Eugene Newbold.
- OCLC:
- 4369943
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