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Death in Venice: PB 242-2003

Object information

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Titles

Death in Venice

Maker(s)

Author: Mann, Thomas
Translator: Burke, Kenneth
Illustrator: Hoffmann, Felix
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Designer: Catflisch, Max
Printer: Stinehour Press

Categories

Description

By Thomas Mann ; translated by Kenneth Burke with an introduction by Erich Heller, illustrated with wood-engravings by Felix Hoffmann.

106, [3] p. illus. 27 cm

Place(s) associated

  • New York
  • Lunenburg

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1972

Note

"This edition ... was planned for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Max Caflisch. The text was printed by The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. The illustrations were engraved on wood by Felix Hoffmann and the color print [frontispiece] pulled at the atelier of the Aargauer Tagblatt in Aarau, Switzerland. There are fifteen hundred copies .."--Colophon. Museum has copy no. "J. D." signed by the illustrator. Printed on double pages. Quarter bound in gold-stamped scarlet morocco leather with marbled paper sides. Issued in slipcase

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustrations

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 242-2003
Primary reference Number: 95771
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 17 August 2012 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Death in Venice" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95771 Accessed: 2024-11-05 23:16:14

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