Shelfmark
Kbb.2.25(01)
Author
Title
How to make woodcuts / by Edward Gordon Craig ; with some words about his woodcuts & black figures by Campbell Dodgson CBE and Martin Hardie RE ; 22 plates in half tone.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[S.l., ca. 1924?]
Physical description
1 volume (49 leaves) : paper ; 18 cm.
Note
Mock-up of a book design for a projected edition of ?extracts from Edward Gordon Craig's Woodcuts and some words (London : J. M. Dent & Sons, 1924) with hand-made wrappers, consisting of pp. xxix-xxx, [325]-420 of an unrelated, unidentified work.
Note
Title taken from cover, with ms. imprint reading: J. M. Dent & Sons, London."
Note
With pasted-in woodcuts, and tipped-in drawing captioned 'Necessities for wood engraving'.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Binding
Contemporary blue paper wrappers with fore-edge flaps, lettered in ink as above.
Copy-specific note
Cover annotated by Craig: "from [deletion] the" and after his name, "Junior".
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted leaf of notes for the projected work: "To consist of: 8280 words by E.G.C. taken from "WW" [i.e. Woodcuts and some words?], ... 66 pages."
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted copy of "The story of the Woodcut Society" (q.v.), housed in same envelope.
Subject
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 Woodcuts and some words.
Subject
Wood-engraving.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 former owner.
Added entry--place
England?
Identifier
B46658