Shelfmark
Kc.5.09, Kc.5.11, Kc.5.14 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kc.5.10, Kc.5.12 (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kc.5.13 (v. 3, US ed.)
Additional shelfmark
Kc.5.15(01-03) (copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Kc.5.16 - Kc.5.17 (insertions and ephemera)
Title
The page.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Hackbridge, Carshalton, Surrey : Published by Edward Gordon Craig, at the Sign of the Rose], 1898-1901.
Physical description
v. : ill. (some hand-col.) ; 27 cm.
Note
Published by Edward Gordon Craig.
Note
Volume 1 (1898) comprised 12 monthly numbers; vol. 2 (1899), 4 quarterly numbers; vol. 3 (1900), one Christmas number; vol. 4 (1901), nos. 1-2 issued as a single volume, nos. 3-4 were intended but not issued.
Note
For a detailed description including details of loosely inserted woodcuts, see Ifan Kyrle Fletcher and Arnold Rood, Edward Gordon Craig: a bibliography (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967), E1 (pp. 49-52).
Note
A special extra number compiled from the first three numbers was issued in April 1898; a special number compiled from the first 12 numbers was issued in December 1898; 'A specimen copy' was issued in 1899. See Fletcher and Rood, E1(c), (d), (h).
Note
Volumes 1 and 2 were also issued complete in boards; see Fletcher and Rood, E1(b), (f). Fletcher and Rood also record an edition de luxe limited to 12 copies, of which only 10 were for sale (E1(g)).
Note
For statements of limitations for each number, see Fletcher and Rood. The ECL copies of the first three numbers are all from issues limited to 75 (no.1) or 72 copies (nos. 2-3; the latter is only recorded in an edition limited to 140 copies in Fletcher and Rood).
Note
Imprint varies. Other numbers have imprint: Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey : 15 Market Place.
Note
Printed by G. Phillipson & Sons, Kingston-upon-Thames.
Note
Copies vary in the hand-colouring of the woodcuts, and some numbers include loose woodcuts, order forms and other ephemera. No attempt is made here to record these variants in detail.
Note
Another edition of v. 3 was issued in the United States, limited to 300 copies of which 288 for sale, with imprint: Boston: Alfred Bartlett, 1900.
Note
Original printed grey (v. 1-2, 4) or blue (v. 3) paper wrappers.
Citation/references note
Fletcher, I.K. & Rood, A. Edward Gordon Craig: a bibliography (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967), E1.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Bound volume with bookplate of William Rothenstein and curatorial note recording that it later belonged to Siegfried Sassoon.
Binding
[Copy 1] The numbers for v. 1-2 and the three special copies/specimen numbers issued in 1898-1899 are housed in a leather and buckram box.
Binding
[Copy 2] The numbers for v. 1-2 are housed in acid-free envelopes.
Binding
[Copy 3] 20th century green cloth with spine title 'The Page III'; original wrappers bound in at end.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] ECL holds a complete set in wrappers, including the December 1898 'special number' and the specimen copy, mostly with the loose insertions and some with ephemera inserted. This set is made up from copies of v. 1 numbered 5 (nos. 11-12), 33 (nos. 3, 5, 8, 10), 36 (nos. 2-4, 7), 52 (no. 9) and an unnumbered copy of no. 1 (v. 1); copies of v. 2 numbered 54 (nos. 1-2) and 241 (nos. 3-4); copy 72 of v. 3; and an unnumbered copy of v. 4. There is also a 'complimentary' number in printed wrappers, numbered '10' in ms.; the ECL copy is undated and it has not been established whether this is a copy of the April 1808 'special extra number' lacking the printing date statement, or an unrecorded number.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] ECL additionally holds duplicates of most of the numbers, some with insertions and other ephemera. These comprise copies numbered 5, 33, 36, 52, 56 (v. 1); 47, 54, 239 and 241 (v. 2); and 105 (v. 3).
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Composite volume comprising copies of v. 1, no. 3 (March 1898) numbered 56, v. 3 (UK edition, 1900) numbered 63, and v. 4 (1901) numbered 86, bound with copies of: Katalog über verschied. Entwürfe ... Berlin: Friedmann & Weber, 1904, and: Press comments on "Dido and Aeneas" and "The masque of love" produced 1900 and 1901, [n.d.]. Unidentified pencil sketch on front cover of The page, v. 4.
Copy-specific note
[Volume 3, US ed.] ECL additionally holds a copy of the Boston edition of v. 3, numbered 198.
Copy-specific note
[Insertions and ephemera] There are also two envelopes of loose insertions (woodcuts) and ephemera (order forms, etc.), Kc.5.16 and Kc.5.17.
Subject
Wood-engraving Periodicals.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Rothenstein, William, 1872 - 1945 Sir former owner.
Added entry--name
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886 - 1967 former owner.
Added entry--place
England Surrey Hackbridge.
Added entry--place
England Kingston upon Thames.
Added entry--place
United States Boston.
Identifier
B46415