Shelfmark
Kd. 2.09 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kd.2.10 (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kd.2.11 (copy 3)
Author
Title
A production : being thirty-two collotype plates of designs projected or realised for The pretenders of Henrik Ibsen and produced at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, 1926 / by Edward Gordon Craig.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1930.
Physical description
[6], 21, [3] p., XXXII leaves, [32] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), plans ; 52 cm.
Note
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
Note
"Six hundred & five copies ... have been printed ... of these five hundred copies on mould-made paper, and one hundred and five copies on hand-made paper numbered and signed by the author."
Note
According to Fletcher and Rood, each issue accompanied by limitation certificate.
Note
Unnumbered copies bound in publisher's red cloth with spine and cover title stamped in gilt; numbered copies bound in quarter vellum with red cloth boards, spine and front board stamped in gilt, in plain heavy paper dust-wrapper with red cloth spine and printed spine label, housed within green cloth slip-case.
Citation/references note
Fletcher, I.K. & Rood, A. Edward Gordon Craig: a bibliography (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967), A32
Provenance
Copy 1: Rosemary Craig's copy with her bookplate designed by Edward Gordon Craig in 1926 on front flyleaf, and loose proof copy of woodcut bookplate lettered "Rosemary....her book" and initialled "M.C."
Provenance
Copy 2: Presented to ECL by Julia Rosenthal in 2013; bookseller's description and invoice from Heritage Book Shop Inc., Los Angeles, 1986 inserted at front of volume.
Provenance
Copy 2: Front flyleaf inscribed in pencil by Georgina Johnston, 1940.
Provenance
Copy 3: Inscribed on front flyleaf by Edward Gordon Craig to Elena Meo: "Mama Elena from Papa Ted, 1930".
Provenance
Copy 3: Bookplate of Edward Craig i.e. Edward Anthony Craig.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Unnumbered copy lacking the limitation certificate.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Unnumbered copy lacking the limitation certificate.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Copy no. 2, signed by Edward Gordon Craig on the limitation statement; lacking the limitation certificate.
Subject
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828 - 1906 Kongs-emnerne.
Subject
Subject
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery Illustrations.
Subject
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Added entry--name
Milford, Humphrey Sumner, 1877 - 1952 publisher.
Added entry--name
Craig, Rosemary former owner.
Added entry--name
Meo, Elena. former owner.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 former owner.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Oxford University Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B52140