Shelfmark
Kaa.4.40 - Kaa.4.45
Title
The dome : a quarterly containing examples of all the arts.
Varying form of title
Other title: Dome : an illustrated magazine and review of literature, music, architecture, and the graphic arts
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Unicorn Press, 1897-1900.
Physical description
v. : ill. (some col.), ports., music ; 22-23 cm.
Note
Frequency of publication varies: quarterly, Mar. 1897-May 1898 (1st series); monthly, Oct. 1898-1900 (new series).
Note
Subtitle varies in 2nd series: The Dome : an illustrated magazine and review of literature, music, architecture, and the graphic arts.
Note
New series, v. 1-7 issued in monthly numbers: v. 1, nos. 1-3; v. 2, nos. 4-6; v. 3, nos. 7-9; v. 4, nos. 10-12; v. 5, nos. 13-15; v. 6, nos. 16-18; v. 7 (triple number), with combined title page for each volume.
Note
A special announcement number was issued in August 1898.
Note
Edward Gordon Craig contributed four woodcuts to N.S. v. 1, Oct.-Dec. 1898: 'Bussy d'Amboise' (p. 27), 'Henry Irving' (in colour, p. 133), Walt Whitman (p. 246), and Ellen Terry (p. 247, in colour); and three woodcuts to N.S. v. 2, Jan.-Mar. 1899: 'Dumas papa' (p.63), a poster (p. 253), and a pictorial postcard (p. 255), all in colour.
Note
Edward Gordon Craig designed a poster for The Dome; see Fletcher and Rood, F11(a).
Note
Publisher's boards or wrappers (see copy notes).
Citation/references note
Fletcher, I.K. & Rood, A. Edward Gordon Craig: a bibliography (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1967), F3(a), F5(a)
Numbering peculiarities note
The numbers for May, June and July 1900 were issued in one.
Numbering peculiarities note
No more published.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Binding
[Kaa.4.40] Publisher's printed grey paper boards.
Binding
[Kaa.4.41] Publisher's brown paper boards printed in orange.
Binding
[Kaa.4.42 - Kaa.4.43] Publisher's brown cloth case binding lettered in gilt.
Binding
[Kaa.4.44] Publisher's printed wrappers.
Copy-specific note
ECL holdings: [Kaa.4.40] no. 3, Sep. 1897; [Kaa.4.41] no. 5, May 1898; [Kaa.4.42] N.S. v. 1, Oct.-Dec. 1898; [Kaa.4.43] N.S. v. 2, Jan-Mar. 1899; [Kaa.4.44] N.S. v. 6, no. 16, Feb. 1900.
Copy-specific note
[Kaa.4.42] N.S. v. 1, Oct.-Dec. 1898 has loosely inserted postcard of lithographic magazine poster design by dward Gordon Craig for N.S., no. 1, Oct. [1898] from the collection of the Bibliothèque de l'Union centrale des arts décoratifs.
Subject
Arts Periodicals.
Subject
Graphic arts Periodicals.
Subject
Printing Periodicals.
Subject
English literature Periodicals.
Subject
Criticism Periodicals.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Unicorn Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52792