Slottsteatrarna Pa Drottningholm Och Gripshols (The Palace Theaters at Drottningholm and Gripsholm) [SIGNED BY DONALD OENSLAGER]
Stockholm: Lindfors Publication AB, [1937]. First edition. Hardcover. 398/500. Oblong Folio (12 3/4 x 15"). 290 [1]pp. Original light brown cloth with gilt emblem on front cover, gilt lettering on red label of spine. Emblem on title page. Facsimile signature by Agne Beijer below preface and original signature of Donald Oenslager, set designer for more than 140 Broadway productions and Tony Award winner for "A Majority of One," on front free endpaper.
With an introduction providing a historical overview intended only to outline the historical background of theater and ideas. This documentation of the history of the Palace Theaters at Drottningholm and Gripsholm is beautifully illustrated with b/w phototypes of theaters and scenes from plays throughout. Profusely illustrated with phototypes in color, tipped in, and large b/w reproductions of theater interior and stage designs, including numerous architectural plans and drawings, printed directly to pages.
Printed at Söners Book Printing House, Malmö. The paper was made especially for this book at Finpappersbruken. Photographs mostly by C. G. Rosenberg. Survey drawings were made available to the Swedish Architectural Heritage Society. The artistic decoration by Akke Kumlien. The illustrations rendered in photolithography by A.-B. Malmö Photolithography Institute. Of the 550 copies the first 30 were numbered in Roman numerals.
Text in Swedish. Some light wear along edges of binding, more pronounced at head and tail of spine. Lightly starting at inside front and page 104. Inside back cover and spine loosened from block but attached. Block lightly age-toned. Good- condition. Item #55455
Price: $375.00