Shelfmark
Ka.5.01
Author
Title
The story of my life / by Ellen Terry ; with illustrations.
Edition
Extra illustrated edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Hutchinson & Co., 1908.
Physical description
[4], vii-xv, [1], 381, [1] p., leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 241 cm.
Note
"Limited to 100 copies for sale, of which the first 250 copies are signed copies"--title page verso.
Note
Illustrations comprise 8 photogravure plates, [85] leaves of plates, and 10 illustrations in the text.
Note
First edition.
Provenance
Ownership inscription "Ex libris Edward Craig" i.e. Teddy Craig, dated 1920, with later pencil annotation with commentary on the book; occasional annotations in Teddy Craig's hand, including note on title page "put together by Christopher St John".
Provenance
Extensively extra-illustrated with pasted-in and loosely inserted items related to Ellen Terry.
Provenance
Bookplate of Ellen Terry, made for her by her son Edward Gordon Craig, probably pasted in by Teddy Craig.
Provenance
Inscription facing half-title: Quentin Tod, September 26th [19]08.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is no. 254.
Copy-specific note
Extra-illustrations and insertions include: signed cabinet photograph of Ellen Terry as "Queen Guinevere" on verso of frontispiece; loose reproduction on brown paper of Edward Gordon Craig's woodcut portrait of Walt Whitman; tipped-in title leaf of a book from the library of Benjamin Terry (Ellen Terry's grandfather) inscribed by him in 1880; signed chit "Box Office, Princess's Theatre"; postcards, news cuttings, theatre programmes, postage stamps and photographs related to Ellen Terry and people in her circle; small cards addressed by Ellen Terry (as "Granny") to Teddy Craig and to ?Elena Meo; note from Teddy Craig as a small boy to "Granny"; a partially excised card from Edward Gordon Craig to ?Teddy; fragment of colour-illustrated French reader "Les oiseaux de basse-cour et de jardin", initially "[?] T." (possibly Ellen Terry).
Subject
Subject
Actresses Correspondence.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 former owner.
Added entry--name
Terry, Ellen, 1847 - 1928 Dame associated name.
Added entry--name
St. John, Christopher (Christopher Marie) associated name.
Added entry--name
Hutchinson & Co. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B49510