Shelfmark
Kbb.4.30
Author
Title
On the art of the theatre / by Edward Gordon Craig.
Edition
[1st ed., limited issue]
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : William Heinemann, MCMXI [1911]
Physical description
xix, [1], 295, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 25 cm.
Note
Edition limited to 150 numbered and signed copies, of which 75 reserved for the United States of America. The English issue is numbered 1-75 in black ink. Statement of limitation on half-title verso.
Note
The US issue was published by Browne's Bookstore, Chicago, and is numbered 1-75 in red ink.
Note
Frontispiece portrait photograph of Craig by Eduard Steichen does not appear in the ordinary editions; four other illustrations are also special to this edition. See Fletcher and Rood.
Note
All plates except the frontispiece are mounted on heavy brown paper leaves.
Note
Plates protected by tissue guards, with descriptive captions printed on the guards for all but the frontispiece portrait.
Note
Publisher's stiff ivory cloth case binding with yapp edges; upper cover with gilt-tooled single fillet border and small oval "GC" monogram; lower cover with blind-tooled single fillet border; gilt spine lettering; gilt text block edges.
Formatted contents note
Contents: The artists of the theatre of the future -- The actor and the Über-Marionette -- Some evil tendencies of the modern theatre -- Plays and playwrights -- The theatre in Russia, Germany, and England -- The art of the theatre (1st dialogue) -- The art of the theatre (2nd dialogue) -- The ghosts in the tragedies of Shakespeare -- Shakespeare's plays -- Realism and the actor -- Open-air theatres -- Symbolism -- The exquisite and the precious.
Citation/references note
Fletcher, I.K. & Rood, A. Edward Gordon Craig: a bibliography (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967), A13(a)
Provenance
Presentation copy to Lady Lewis with additional signature of Gordon Craig dated 1912.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy signed and numbered 9.
Subject
Theater.
Subject
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery.
Subject
English drama History and criticism.
Subject
Stage design.
Subject
Theater Great Britain 20th century.
Added entry--name
Heinemann publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46497