Lot 222
Rilke (Rainer Maria) Duineser Elegien; Elegies from the Castle of Duino, translated by V. & Edward Sackville-West, first edition in English, one of 230 copies, printed at the Cranach Press for the Hogarth Press, 1931
Hammer Price: £3,000
Description
Rilke (Rainer Maria) Duineser Elegien; Elegies from the Castle of Duino, translated by V. & Edward Sackville-West, first edition in English, one of 230 copies, on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper and signed by the translators, text in English and German, designed by Count Harry Kessler, printed in red and black in Edward Johnston italic cut by E.Prince & G.T.Friend, wood-engraved initials by Eric Gill, bookplates of Viscount Esher and Walter and Dorothy Donnelly to front free endpaper and pastedown, original vellum-backed boards, light soiling to spine, covers a little browned at head, t.e.g., others uncut, [Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A25; Woolmer 268], 8vo, printed at the Cranach Press for the Hogarth Press, 1931.
⁂ A very good copy of this handsome production, the first published English translation of this collection that ranks among Rilke's most significant work.
Description
Rilke (Rainer Maria) Duineser Elegien; Elegies from the Castle of Duino, translated by V. & Edward Sackville-West, first edition in English, one of 230 copies, on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper and signed by the translators, text in English and German, designed by Count Harry Kessler, printed in red and black in Edward Johnston italic cut by E.Prince & G.T.Friend, wood-engraved initials by Eric Gill, bookplates of Viscount Esher and Walter and Dorothy Donnelly to front free endpaper and pastedown, original vellum-backed boards, light soiling to spine, covers a little browned at head, t.e.g., others uncut, [Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A25; Woolmer 268], 8vo, printed at the Cranach Press for the Hogarth Press, 1931.
⁂ A very good copy of this handsome production, the first published English translation of this collection that ranks among Rilke's most significant work.
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