Shelfmark
Kb.3.31
Title
The Hampstead annual.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Sydney C. Mayle ; The Priory Press, 1897-1906.
Physical description
v., plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Note
Description based on 1900.
Note
Volumes for 1897-1898 edited by E. Rhys; 1899-1906 edited by Greville E. Matheson and Sydney C. Mayle.
Note
Printer statement from title page verso.
Note
Publisher's coloured heavy card covers printed in red and black.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Pages 136-139 of the volume for 1900 contain a review of the Purcell Operatic Society production of Dido and Æneas with a woodcut illustration of Edward Gordon Craig's design for the witches' cave, and the advertisements bound in at the end of the volume include a full-page advertisement for 'The page', vols. 1-4.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Provenance
Accompanied by the cover, frontispiece portrait and title page of the issue for 1899, together with a loose plate of the 'Alms House Hampstead' presumably from the same publication, containing on the blank versos pencil sketches of male and female figures by Edward Gordon Craig. The sketches are noted on the 1899 cover in the hand of Edward Anthony Craig. Previously loosely inserted at the end, removed to separate envelope.
Provenance
Also accompanied by a photograph of a drawing of a female figure by Edward Gordon Craig dated 1900; an article on the Purcell Operatic Society extracted from 'The Kensington', March 1901, with reference in Edward Anthony Craig's hand; and copies of the two items relating to Gordon Craig extracted from another copy of 'The Hampstead annual' for 1900, the advertisement for 'The page' also with a reference in Edward Anthony Craig's hand. Previously loosely inserted at the end, removed to separate envelope.
Copy-specific note
ECL holdings: volume for 1900 and fragment of volume for 1899 only.
Subject
Hampstead (London, England) Periodicals.
Subject
Hampstead (London, England) History.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 former owner.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 associated name.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B46720