William Tell by Johann von Schiller - LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1951
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William Tell by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1951
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 720 of 1500 copies
Full page and integrated lithographs by Charles Hug who signed the book.
Translated by Theodore Martin.
Introduced by Thomas Carlyle.
Designed by Walter Diethelm.
Printed and bound by Fretz Fréres, Zurich.
Monochrome drawing pictorial endpapers.
Quarter bound in brown linen with gilt stamped title on spine, natural wood covers gilt stamped with a crossbow on front cover.
Page tops stained brown.
Ragged outer and lower page edges.
Brown slipcase with title gilt printed on edge.
27.9x20.3cm.
164 pages
US$35
The Monthly Letter for this book can be downloaded here.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 720 of 1500 copies
Full page and integrated lithographs by Charles Hug who signed the book.
Translated by Theodore Martin.
Introduced by Thomas Carlyle.
Designed by Walter Diethelm.
Printed and bound by Fretz Fréres, Zurich.
Monochrome drawing pictorial endpapers.
Quarter bound in brown linen with gilt stamped title on spine, natural wood covers gilt stamped with a crossbow on front cover.
Page tops stained brown.
Ragged outer and lower page edges.
Brown slipcase with title gilt printed on edge.
27.9x20.3cm.
164 pages
US$35
The Monthly Letter for this book can be downloaded here.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
2Django6924
>1 wcarter:
Thanks for your typically excellent review of a book that is usually neglected by book collectors, and I think unjustly so. The production values are wonderful, I think Hug's illustrations are excellent, and the play itself is by one of the world's best, considered by Germans second only to Goethe.
For some reason, plays just don't seem to get the love (excepting Shakespeare).
Thanks for your typically excellent review of a book that is usually neglected by book collectors, and I think unjustly so. The production values are wonderful, I think Hug's illustrations are excellent, and the play itself is by one of the world's best, considered by Germans second only to Goethe.
For some reason, plays just don't seem to get the love (excepting Shakespeare).
3Glacierman
>2 Django6924: Or those creaky old Greeks . . . .
4Django6924
>3 Glacierman:
Prurience, my friend, always sells--and those Greeks loaded their plays with incest, adultery, matricide, etc., knowing it!
Prurience, my friend, always sells--and those Greeks loaded their plays with incest, adultery, matricide, etc., knowing it!
5Glacierman
>4 Django6924: Oedipus Wrecks.
6rogerthat2
Looks great! I have one on order already that I'm looking forward to receiving. Plenty of cheap copies for sale.
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