Shelfmark
Kc.4.01 - Kc.4.14 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kc.4.23 - Kc.4.25, Kc.3.01 - Kc.3.13 (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kc.4.15 - Kc.4.19 (copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Kc.3.14-Kc.3.17, Kc.2 (copy 4)
Additional shelfmark
MS 685/box 'Play programmes and ephemera'
Title
The mask.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Florence : The Mask, 1908-1929.
Physical description
v. : ill., maps ; 23 - 34 cm.
Note
Proprietor and editor: Edward Gordon Craig, who also supplied most of the content. More than 60 pseudonyms used by Craig in the publication are listed by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher and Arnold Rood in: Edward Gordon Craig: a bibliography (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967), p. 62.
Note
Subtitle varies. For most issues : The journal of the art of the theatre (or variants, e.g. The quarterly journal ... [etc.]). During Vol. 8 (1918-1919) subtitled : A monthly leaflet of the art of the theatre.
Note
Publication suspended : August 1914 - April 1915 ; June 1915 - February 1918 ; May 1919 - 1923.
Note
Vol. 1 contains 12 monthly issues (March 1908-February 1909), the numbers for May and June being issued together. Vols. 2 (1909-1910) and 3 (1910-1911) contain 4 quarterly issues numbered 1-3 (July), 4-6 (October), 7-9 (January) and 10-12 (April). Vols. 4 (1911-1912), 5 (1912-1913), and 6 (1913-1914) contains quarterly issues numbered 1 (July), 2 (October), 3 (January) and 4 (April). Vol. 7 contains issues numbered 1 (July 1914) and 2 (May 1915). Vol. 8 contains twelve monthly bifolia, undated except with a copyright date on the last page (March 1918-April 1919). Vol. 9 (1923) is an annual, undivided into issues. Vols. 10 (1924)-15 (1929) are each divided into four quarterly issues. Vol. 13 (1927) numbered 12 bis as issued in wrappers, corrected to 13 in the bound volumes.
Note
Published from Florence, but with articles almost entirely in English (with very occasional ones in Italian and French).
Note
Issued in printed wrappers with woodcut decorations, except for vol. 8 which was unbound. Also issued complete in full vellum boards paper boards with vellum spines, with title pages and contents or index lists; from vol. 7 also issued in paper boards with canvas spines. Also issued in limited 'de luxe' editions; vols. 4-7 also in 'large paper' editions. See Fletcher and Rood for details.
Note
Imprint varies: The Mask (vol. 1; no. 12 published by Maurice Magnus); Arena Goldoni (vols. 2-7); Box 444 (vols. 8-15).
Note
Printers: E. Morandi (vols. 1, 2:1-6); Tipografia R. Lastrucci (vols. 2:7-6:2); privately printed at Arena Goldoni (vols. 6:3-7); Tipografia Giuntina (vols. 8-14); Tipografia L. Franceschini (vol. 15).
Note
Some articles also issued as separate pamphlets; see Fletcher and Rood for details.
Note
Most volumes were issued with various ephemera; see Fletcher and Rood for details.
Note
Vol. 6, no. 1 (July 1913) is a special issue largely devoted to the Gordon Craig School in Florence.
Citation/references note
Fletcher, I.K. & Rood, A. Edward Gordon Craig: a bibliography (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967), E2
Summary, etc.
Summary: One of the most internationally influentual theatre journals of the period, innovative in its coverage of avant-garde developments in the theatrical world (and also in art and literature). It was dominated throughout its life by the interests and opinions of Edward Gordon Craig, its proprietor and editor, who also wrote most of the articles under numerous pseudonyms, designed the layout, and contributed many of the illustrations.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Vols. 1-11 and bound volume of covers and ephemera with bookplate of Eva Le Gallienne (except vol. 9 which has the bookplate of the Civic Repertory Theatre). Vol. 15 with bookplate of Virginia Surtees.
Provenance
[Copy 3] Association copies with annotations by Edward Gordon Craig or Edward Carrick Craig (see copy-specific note).
Provenance
[Copy 4] Copies of vol. 6 no. 4, vol. 7 no. 1 and vol. 11 no. 3 with inscription recording gift by Julia Rosenthal, 2013; copies of vol. 12 nos. 1-2 with inscription "Rosie" and copy of vol. 12 bis no. 1 with inscription "Rosie with my love, P."; copies of vols 14 and 15 with bookplate of Virginia Surtees and the latter inscribed "Virginia Bell Clarke 1948".
Binding
[Copy 1] This set is housed in boxes except for vols. 8-9 which are housed in acid-free envelopes.
Binding
[Copy 2] Publisher's vellum boards or paper boards with vellum spine.
Binding
[Copy 3] Loose issues in publisher's original wrappers; prospectus in yellow paper boards with pink paper spine and corners with green paper cover label titled in ink "The Mask prospectus 1924.
Binding
[Copy 4] Loose issues or bound volumes in publisher's wrappers or bindings.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] ECL holds a set in wrappers, made up of copies of the ordinary, 'de luxe' or 'large paper' editions. This set lacks vol. 2 no. 1-3 (July 1909) and vol. 8, no. 12. It includes duplicates of vol. 1, nos. May-June 1908, December 1908 and February 1909, and of vol. 8, nos. 9-10.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] ECL additionally holds a set of vols 1-11 as issued bound in full vellum boards or paper boards with vellum spines. This set includes a bound volume of covers and some ephemera, 1911-1915. It has been made up to a complete set with separately acquired copies of vols 12-15; there is also a duplicate copy of vol 15.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] ECL additionally holds individual association copies including a set of vol. 1 only collected by Edward Carrick Craig in a cardboard folder (Kc.4.15); loose copies of vol. 6, nos. 2 (large paper) and 4 with annotations by Edward Gordon Craig (Kc.4.16-Kc.4.17); Edward Gordon Craig's office copy of vol. 10, no. 1 (Kc.4.18); and Edward Carrick Craig's copy of the 1924 prospectus (16 pp.) with his annotation: 'My first "paste up" job i.e. type setting on paper with a pair of sissors [sic] & a paste pot" (Kc.4.19).
Copy-specific note
[Copy 4] ECL additionally holds a small number of further copies in wrappers of the ordinary, 'de luxe' or large paper issues, including: vol. 6 nos. 1-4, vol. 7 no. 1, vol. 10 nos. 1-4, vol. 11 no. 3, vol. 12 nos. 1-2, vol. 12 bis (i.e. 13) no. 1, vol. 15 no. 12 (Kc.1); vol. 9 in boards with canvas spine (2 copies, Kc.3.15-16); vol. 14 in boards with canvas spine (Kc.3.17); vol. 15 in boards with vellum spine (Kc.3.14). There are also 4 copies of the prospectus for vol. 4, 3 copies of the prospectus for the Society of the Theatre (one with prices altered in ms.), and the preliminary prospectus for Gordon Craig's School for the Art of the Theatre.
Copy-specific note
There is also an envelope of ephemera etc. including loose copies of prospectuses, announcements, insertions and supplements removed from the issues, office stationery and printed forms, and correspondence in the Edward Gordon Collections, ECL MS 685/box 'Play programmes and ephemera'.
Copy-specific note
A copy of "The art of the theatre. The second dialogue, by Gordon Craig", extracted from vol. 2, nos. 7-9 (Jan. 1910), pp. 105-126 and presented to Craig's daughter Nelly, is separately catalogued.
Subject
Subject
Subject
Theater Periodicals.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Franceschini, L. printer.
Added entry--name
Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899 - 1991 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 associated name.
Added entry--name
Tipografia Giuntina printer.
Added entry--name
Civic Repertory Theatre, Inc. former owner.
Added entry--title
Mask (Florence, Italy)
Added entry--place
Italy Florence.
Identifier
B46469