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Shakespeare Weekend

Shakespeare’s comedy Measure for Measure, is volume twenty-two of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. The play was likely first acted in 1604. It was first printed in the folio of 1623. 

Measure for Measure was illustrated by German Bohemian illustrator and stage designer Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880-1945). By his fifties Steiner-Prag had designed three hundred and sixty books and illustrated fifty-six books. He was for a time president of the Association of German Book Trade Artists. On illustrating this volume of he says:

I have always been deeply attracted by Measure for Measure with its bright and dark happenings, its glowing passions, its burlesque choirs, and with the frequently more than dubious personages that people this work with its threatening, fateful events that are the cause of such genuine pain and so many tears. It is therefore easy to understand my desire to illustrate it with pictures. 

His vibrant and imaginative illustrations were made in lithography and were printed by Mourlot Freres in Paris. 

The volumes in the set were printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish, and each was illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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