Shelfmark
Kb.2.01
Author
Uniform title
[Voskresshie bogi. English]
Title
The forerunner : a novel / by Dmitri Merejkowski.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Westminster : Archibald Constable and Company, Ltd., 1902.
Physical description
[2], 463, [1] p. ; 19 cm.
Note
Translation of: Voskresshie bogi.
Note
According to ms. note in ECL copy, translated from intermediate French translation by Herbert Trench.
Note
Publisher's 16-p. catalogue bound in at end (not included in collation).
Note
?Publisher's brown marbled paper boards; printed title label on upper cover.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig's copy with his annotations, with extra-illlustrations tipped-in or loosely inserted, including prints, postcards, photographic reproductions, small sketches and a small unsigned watercolour.
Provenance
Annotations by Edward Anthony Craig (ca. 1925?) chiefly on endpapers, including note that 'the notes in the books, made between 1910 and 1913 are all made by EGC and are important. This book played a great part in his life and in his style of writing.'
Provenance
Front pastedown initialled 'EGC' and 'MFS' [i.e. Martin Shaw] with note in Edward Anthony Craig's hand 'from EGC to Martin Shaw'.
Provenance
Loosely inserted postcard from Edward Gordon Craig to Martin Shaw regarding the book 'which you lent me', commenting on the 'distance - & gap' between Mona Lisa and Manet's Olympia (reproduced on the recto of the card); dated in pencil Florence 8 June 1910 in Edward Anthony Craig's hand.
Subject
Leonardo, 1452 - 1519 da Vinci
Subject
Historical fiction, Russian Translations into English.
Added entry--name
Trench, Herbert, 1865 - 1923 translator.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 former owner.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 former owner.
Added entry--name
Shaw, Martin, 1875 - 1958 associated name.
Added entry--name
Archibald Constable & Co publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng rus fre
Identifier
B46727