186, [2] pp. With illustrations designed & cut in wood by Edward Gordon Craig. Title-page cut by Edward Gill. Running headings printed in red, text printed in black, the type designed by Edward Johnston after that used by Fust and Schoeffer in their Mainz Psaltar of 1457. Printed on paper made of pure hemp fiber and linen by a process devised in joint research by Count Harry Kessler and Aristide and Gaspard Maillol. With booklet of J. Hoover Wilson's Notes on Hamlet loose in rear endpaper pocket. 14x9½, quarter vellum and boards, spine & front cover lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, slipcase. One of 300 copies printed on the handpresses of the Cranach Press Weimar under the supervision of Count Harry Kessler, J.H. Mason & Max Goertz.

The masterful Cranach Press Hamlet, considered the finest printing of a Shakespeare play, and one of the greatest fine press books every printed, with the sublime illustrations of E. Gordon Craig. In the colophon of this copy is printed, "This copy not for sale, it was printed for Dr. H. Wengler."