Shelfmark
Kaa.4.08 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kaa.4.09 (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kaa.4.10 (copy 3)
Additional shelfmark
Kaa.4.11 (copy 4)
Additional shelfmark
Kaa.4.12 (copy 5)
Author
Title
Edward Gordon Craig : designs for the theatre / Janet Leeper.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1948.
Physical description
47, [1] p., 40 p. of plates : 45 ill. (6 col., 34 tinted), port. ; 18 cm.
Series statement
(King Penguin books ; 40)
Note
Title page and frontispiece have decorative lettered border.
Note
Set in Poliphilus and Blado -- Edwards, R. "So much admired". 1988.
Note
"Cover by William Grimmond after a design of Edward Gordon Craig."
Note
"Text printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd, Edinburgh ; plates made and printed by John Swain & Son [sic] Ltd, Barnet."
Note
Publisher's case binding with paper boards printed in blue after a design by Gordon Craig.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Presentation copy from Edward Gordon Craig to his daughter Nelly [Ellen Gordon Craig], dated Vence, 1959 "with same old love" and annotated by him "with a few notes in ink".
Provenance
[Copy 2] Adhesive label on endpaper: "From Nigel Hawthorne's collection", [purchased ca. 2003]. Presentation copy from Edward Gordon Craig "To the Misses B & E Moore in London - and unless I am very much mistaken you can be the 2 ladies I know longish ago in the Adelphi ..." With loosely inserted ALS from Craig to the "Miss Moores Barbara and Evelyn John" dated Vence, 29 May 1956, referring to a ms. note on p. 37 of the book. Also loosely inserted ms. notes to Craig from "B. & E. M." dated 19 Jan. and Dec. 1957, in manila envelope inscribed to Nigel Hawthorne from [unread].
Provenance
[Copy 3] Presented by Julia Rosenthal in 2013.
Provenance
[Copy 4] Presented by Julia Rosenthal in 2013. Ownership inscription of Alastair Hill, Oxford dated 29 Nov. 1957.
Provenance
[Copy 5] Edward Anthony [Teddy] Craig's copy of the text only, with extensive annotations made at different times, including during the preparation his book "Gordon Craig: the story of his life" (1968), three suggested alternative titles for which are inscribed inside the front cover, dated March 1967.
Binding
[Copy 3] In plastic dust-wrapper.
Binding
[Copy 5] In hand-made marbled paper wrappers.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Loosely inserted advertisement leaflet for "The King Penguin books" series.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 5] Imperfect: wanting pp. [1-4] and all the plates. Loosely inserted photograph of Janet Leeper and Michael Warre. With a copy of Gordon Craig's "Biographical note"extracted from his "A living theatre" (1913) inserted in a tab attached to the lower cover, annotated by Teddy Craig "This, written by EGC, is at the bottom of so many misstatements".
Subject
Subject
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery.
Subject
Stage design Great Britain 20th century.
Added entry--name
Craig, Ellen Gordon, 1904 - 1975 former owner.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Hawthorne, Nigel former owner.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 former owner.
Added entry--name
Penguin publisher.
Added entry--place
England Middlesex Harmondsworth.
Identifier
B46977