Otto Rohse Presse – On Puppet-Shows
A superb production of an important work illustrated by a Master German wood engraver
(Otto Rohse Presse) On puppet-shows. [By] Heinrich Von Kleist. Copper Engravings by Otto Rohse. Translated by David Paisey. Hamburg. 1991. n.p. 14” x 10.5”. Handset in 14p Amsterdam Garamont and printed at the Otto Rohse Press. Engravings printed by Peter Fetthauer. Bound by Christian Zwang with a linear design in deep red leather. Gray Fabriano paper board slipcase with the Otto Rohse press logo on the side. No. 65 in an edition of 75 copies, signed by Otto Rohse and with the press logo stamp. Fine. An elegant and beautiful book.
The translation by David Paisey was done in 1990. Heinrich von Kleist was born in October 18, 1777, Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg [now in Germany] and died November 21, 1811, in Wannsee, near Berlin. He was among the greatest of the 19th century German dramatists. Poets of the Realist, Expressionist, Nationalist, and Existentialist movements in France and Germany saw their prototype in Kleist, a poet whose genius had foreseen modern problems of life and literature.
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