Table of contents
Prefaces by John Dieter Brinks and Robert Volz
Part One: Essays
I John Dieter Brinks,
A DREAM FULFILLED.
The Meaning of the Book in Kessler's Life...............................Page 12
II Renate Miiller-Krumbach,
THE FORERUNNERS OF THE CRANACH PRESS.
Kessler's Involvement with Book Design before 1914......................Page 26
III John Dieter Brinks,
THE GERMAN HOMER.The Odyssee:
translated by Rudolf Alexander Schroder,
designed by Count Harry Kessler.........................................Page 44
IV Klaus Weber,
EN PLEINE GUERRE, EN PAYS ALLEMAND.
Henry van de Velde and the War-time Publications
of the Cranach Press....................................................Page 76
V John Dieter Brinks,
FRAGMENTED MAN.
Kessler and the Eclogues of Virgil......................................Page 86
VI Anne Hyde Greet,
CONVERSATIONS IN ARCADY.
Virgil. Maillol and Kessler & the Eclogues
I, II, V and VI........................................................Page 111
VII Lindsay Newman,
FROM STAGE TO PAGE.
Hamlet with Edward Gordon Craig........................................Page 126
VIII John Dieter Brinks,
IN SEARCH OF SENSUALITY.
Kessler's and Gill's Song of Songs.....................................Page 146
IX Thomas FoW,
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.
Kessler's Approach to Finance and
the Cranach Press......................................................Page 170
X Gunnar A. Kaldewey,
ON COUNT HARRY KESSLER.................................................Page 187
XI Renate- Miiller- Krumbach,
DREAMS OF BOOKS.
Kessler's Plans and Projects...........................................Page 195
XII John Dieter Brinks,
AN EPILOGUE ON THE INITIAL G...........................................Page 211
Part Two: Appendix
I John Dieter Brinks,
OVERCOMING ART NOUVEAU.
On a Trial Proof for Kessler's Odyssey.................................Page 224
II Renate Miiller-Krumbach and John Dieter Brinks,
A SHORT CHRONOLOGY OF THE CRANACH PRESS................................Page 228
III John Dreyfus,
THE CRANACH PRESS TYPES................................................Page 238
IV John Dieter Brinks,
ON BINDINGS FOR THE CRANACH PRESS.
A Collector's View.....................................................Page 260
Part Three: Documentation
I KEY TEXTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF THE CRANACH PRESS
1. Harry Kessler, On the Exhibition of Modern Printing and Writing, 1905
2. Douglas Cockerell. Letters to Count Kessler from 1904 to 1912
3. Harry Kessler, Maillol. English translation by J.H.Mason, 1928
4. A Comparison of Eric Gill's two sets of engravings for the Song of Songs, 1925 and 1930
5. John Dreyfus, Sketches and designs for the Cranach Press rypes, 1969
6. Lines Straight and Thin: pages from Kessler's note-book of the late 1920S
7. Harry Kessler, Working with Maillol: two visits to Banyuls in early 1925
8. Hamlet in the Press. Photographs by Ursula Braune, 1929
9. Lindsay Newman, Complete list of Craig's wood-engravings for the English edition of Hamlet
10. Hamlet in the mirror of English newspapers, 1930 and 1931
11. Rudolf Alexander Schroder, The Cranach Press in Weimar, 1931
12. Harry Kessler. Expose' of the Cranach Press, 1937
13. Walter Tanz, An Account of my Work and Experiences at the Cranach Press. 1962
14. Max Kopp, A Backward Look at the Cranach Press from its Foundation to its ClOse, 1962
15. Max Kopp, The Process of Handpress Printing at the Cranach Press, 1962
II BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KESSLER AND THE CRANACH PRESS..........................Page 343
Part Four: An Illustrated Catalogue of the Cranach Press
I WORKS DESIGNED OR CO-DESIGNED BY KESSLER...............................Page 358
II WORKS PRINTED AT THE CRANACH PRESS IN WEIMAR............................Page 374
III WORKS PLANNED BY KESSLER FOR THE CRANACH PRESS.........................Page 432
Part Five : Index nominum et index librorum
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