DELACROIX (Eugène). Hamlet. Thirteen drawn subjects. Paris, - Lot 246

DELACROIX (Eugène). Hamlet. Thirteen drawn subjects. Paris, Chez Gihaut frères, s. d. [1843]. Large folio (335 x 550 mm), red half-maroquin with long grain and corners, fine cold serrated border, smooth spine decorated with gilt title throughout, cover preserved (Yseux s.r de Simier). FIRST EDITION. Thirteen lithographed plates by Jean François VILLAIN after Eugène DELACROIX, produced between 1834 and 1843, to illustrate Shakespeare's masterpiece. Thirteen original lithographs by Eugène DELACROIX, produced between 1834 and 1843, to illustrate Shakespeare's masterpiece. They are captioned and marked "Lith. de Villain". Edition of 80 copies, this one on white vellum. ATTACHED: bound at the end of the volume, the three additional plates not retained by Gihaut and from the second print run given in 1864 by Bertauts, uncaptioned. The plates are mitered. Very slight foxing. Carteret, Romantique, III, 191. SUITE COMPLÈTE DES SEIZE LITHOGRAPHIES d'Eugène DELACROIX pour HAMLET. See reproductions