{"product_id":"the-doves-press-iphigenie-auf-tauris","title":"The Doves Press Iphigenie auf Tauris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIphigenie auf Tauris.\u003c\/strong\u003e London, Doves Press, 1912.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeluxe edition, one of 20 copies printed in two colours on snow-white vellum (Tidcombe DP28, Tomkinson 57 record 200 on paper, 20 on vellum, and 12 further vellum copies with gold initials by Graily Hewitt). 110 pp. and one leaf. Small quarto (230 × 165 mm).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal orange-red morocco with gilt fillets to spine and covers, signed \"The Doves Bindery C-S 1912\" (pristine; binding and vellum text-block in exceptional state).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFew Goethe texts better suit the Doves ideal.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eIphigenie auf Tauris\u003c\/em\u003e is his most serene classical drama, Greek myth turned into a play of restraint, humane reason and reconciliation. The Doves Press, founded by Cobden-Sanderson with Emery Walker, pursued an equally severe ideal of pure typography and proportion. Cobden-Sanderson's principle that \"the Book Beautiful\" must be beautiful as a whole [Cobden-Sanderson, \"The Book Beautiful,\" 1902] finds an exact embodiment here. The text's classical restraint and the press's typographic restraint clarify one another, Doves classicism and Goethe's classicism meeting in the authority of measured form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is distinct from both the paper edition and the 12-copy gilt-initial subgroup, and is bound by the Doves Bindery as a unified Arts and Crafts object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePROVENANCE\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Heribert Tenschert Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eREFERENCES\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTidcombe DP28; Tomkinson 57; Marianne Tidcombe, \u003cem\u003eThe Doves Press\u003c\/em\u003e (British Library, 2002); Colin Franklin, \u003cem\u003eThe Private Presses\u003c\/em\u003e (1969); T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, \"The Book Beautiful,\" in \u003cem\u003eEcce Mundus\u003c\/em\u003e (Doves Press, 1902); Alexander Turnbull Library, \u003cem\u003eDoves Press Iphigenie\u003c\/em\u003e record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012999037116,"sku":null,"price":34500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/1285\/3436\/files\/Iphigenie_Doves-Press_Perg-1.jpg?v=1782799518","url":"https:\/\/atelierzweig.com\/products\/the-doves-press-iphigenie-auf-tauris","provider":"Atelier Zweig Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}