edited by J.Dover Wilson, out-of-series copy on Maillol hand-made paper, from an edition limited to 300 on paper and 325 in total, this copy for Dr.H.Wengler of Dresden (the German proof-reader), type designed by Edward Johnston after the Mainz Psalter of 1457, title cut by Eric Gill, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations designed and cut by Edward Gordon Craig, 'Notes on the Text ' by the editor in original cloth-backed wrappers in pocket at end, original vellum-backed boards with vellum tips, by G.Dorfner of Weimar, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine, t.e.g., others uncut, slip-case (rubbed and scratched), [F & R C25(c)], folio, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1930. Edward Gordon Craig's magnum opus . Having seen the prints ("black figures") made from Craig's wooden figures which he used with his model theatre, Count Harry Kessler commissioned Craig to illustrate an edition of Hamlet . It was to be printed at his private Cranach press using the woodblocks and with specially designed type. This was in 1912 but work on it was suspended during the First World War and Craig became distracted by other projects so the book was not issued for nearly twenty years, the German edition in 1929 and the English in 1930. When it finally appeared it was a masterpiece of printing and design, and one which visually captured so many of Craig's ideas for the theatre with its "screens" or "scenery" formed by blocks of engraved lines and simple draped figures in different sizes creating theatrical space. Craig's son, Teddy, went to Weimar to assist the master-printer, Gage Cole, in the printing of the woodblocks: "I was the only person who knew how to get the kind of impression required, showing the delicate side grain of wood and at the same time producing the specially blackened details in certain blocks." Edward Craig. Gordon Craig: The Story of His Life p.326