International standard book number
0946257000
Shelfmark
Kaa.2.24 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kaa.2.25 (copy 2)
Author
Title
Baroque theatre construction : a study of the earliest treatise on the structure of theatres by Fabrizio Carini Motta architect and scene designer at the court of Mantua 1676 / by Edward Craig.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Aylesbury] : The Bledlow Press, 1982.
Physical description
[6], 8-70, [1] ; [4], 24, [2] p., [3], XI leaves of plates : ill., facsims. ; 26 cm.
Note
Includes facsimile edition of: Trattato sopra la struttura de theatri, e scene, che à nostri giorni si costumano, e delle regole per far quelli con proportione secondo l'insegnamento della pratica maestra commune di Fabricio Carini Motta ... In Guastalla: Per Alessandro Giauazzi stampator ducale, 1676.
Note
Final page of main text is numbered 66 (verso blank); colophon leaf numbered 69 (verso blank); p. 70 and contains a half-title for the facsimile edition [designed by Edward Craig] (verso blank).
Note
Facsimile edition printed on cream paper follows p. [71].
Note
Statement of limitation: "One of two hundred copies ... printed on G.F. Smith Colourplan paper. numbered 1-200. Ten copies are on Zerkall mould made paper, numbered I-X. ... This copy is number ..."--Colophon.
Note
"Printed by Tom Craig at the Bledlow Press. Printing complete November 1982. The facsimilie [sic] ... was printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press."--Colophon.
Note
Publisher's quarter beige buckram case binding with spine title stamped in maroon; dark red and beige decorated paper boards; textured grey endpapers.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Lindsay Newman's copy, inscribed by Edward Craig.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] ECL copy is number 94.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] ECL copy is unnumbered copy "specially for Lindsay with love from E." i.e. inscribed to Lindsay M. Newman by Edward Craig.
Subject
Carini Motta, Fabricio Trattato sopra la struttura de theatri e scene.
Subject
Theater architecture Italy.
Subject
Architecture, Baroque Italy.
Added entry--name
Craig, Tom printer.
Added entry--name
Carini Motta, Fabricio Trattato sopra la struttura de theatri e scene.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Newman, L. M. (Lindsay Mary) former owner.
Added entry--name
Bledlow Press publisher.
Added entry--name
Senecio Press printer.
Added entry--place
England Aylesbury.
Language code
eng ita
Identifier
B48504