Count Harry Kessler letters
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Kess
Abstract
Designer, publisher and patron of fine press printing. His first book was the Notizen über Mexico (1898). After founding the Cranach Press at Weimar in 1913, he commissioned type designs from Edward Johnston and a book version of Gordon Craig's staging of Hamlet with designs by Craig. Incoming correspondence, largely in English, with a small number of drafts or carbon copies of outgoing letters. Included are letters from Sidney Cockerell, Edward Gordon Craig, Eric Gill, Edward Johnston, Georges Lemmen, Emery Walker and others.
Dates
- 1898-1937
Creator
- Kessler, Harry, Graf (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English and German.
Biographical / Historical
Designer, publisher and patron of fine press printing. His first book was the Notizen über Mexico (1898). After founding the Cranach Press at Weimar in 1913, he commissioned type designs from Edward Johnston and a book version of Gordon Craig's staging of Hamlet with designs by Craig.
Extent
3.7 Linear Feet (1108 items in 9 boxes)
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Other Finding Aids
Inventory (Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.)
- Book design -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
- Book designers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
- Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950
- Craig, Edward Gordon
- Cranach Presse
- Gill, Eric
- Johnston, Edward
- Kessler, Harry, Graf -- Correspondence
- Lemmen, Georges
- Printers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
- Private presses -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
- Walker, Emery
Creator
- Kessler, Harry, Graf (Person)
- Status
- Catalog Record Only
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts Repository
Contact:
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org