Shelfmark
Kc.2.01 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kc.2.02 (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kc.2.03 (copy 3)
Author
Title
The splendid wayfaring / by Haldane Macfall ; decorated by Lovat Fraser, Gaudier-Brzeska, the author and Gordon Craig.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1913.
Physical description
xii, [2], 199, [3] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note
Illustrated title page.
Note
Essays on art.
Note
Plate = frontispiece by Edward Gordon Craig, protected by tissue guard.
Note
First impression of the true first edition, in the first issue purple moiré cloth binding with title and decoration blocked in gilt on spine and covers; green and white design on endpapers; gilt top edge. See copy notes for binding variants.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Foreword -- The Personal note -- I. Of life -- II. Of art -- III. Of craftmanship -- IV. Of beauty -- V. Of the mighty acreage of the garden of the arts, and of the vast significance that dwell therein -- VI. Of impressionism -- VII. Of the intellect and the senses in art -- VIII. Of the splendour of the passions -- IX. Of art for art's sake -- X. Of the brain-thief -- XI. Of criticism and the milk of asses -- XII. Of decay -- XII. Of the dealing in antiquities -- XIV. Of the great dead -- XV. Of the academic of mind -- XVI. Of style -- XVII. Of the law -- XIX. Liberty the breath of art -- XX. Of authority and the law-giver -- XX. Of the receivers of art -- XXI. Of the subject -- XXII. Of the breed of the conquerors -- XXIII. Of the splendid rebels -- XXIV. Of the province of the art of the drama to amuse -- XXV. Of the manifold dangers that threaten the art of the drama -- XXVI. Of the puritan in us all -- XXVII. Of the power of the drama -- XXIX. Of the golden God of the puritan - thrift -- XXX. Of the might of the theatre.
Citation/references note
Fletcher, I.K. & Rood, A. Edward Gordon Craig: a bibliography (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967), C18(a)
Provenance
[Copy 1] Presentation copy from the author to "Mr Gibb" with autograph ink drawing reproducing mermaid design from lower cover.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Ownership inscriptions on endpaper: in pencil, "Derek Gilpin Barnes, 1922"; in another hand in ink "Given to D. I. Pichokon (?), January 4th 1924." Some marginalia, possibly in the former hand.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] First binding, see general note.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Later issue in publisher's black cloth binding with title and decoration blocked in gilt on spine and covers; plain endpapers; gilt top edge..
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Later issue in publisher's black cloth binding with title and decoration blocked in yellow on spine and covers; plain endpapers.
Subject
Art Philosophy.
Subject
Aesthetics.
Subject
Art philosophy.
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Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. publisher.
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William Clowes and Sons printer.
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England London.
Identifier
B49722