ROBES OF THESPIS: COSTUME DESIGNS BY MODERN ARTISTS, ONE OF 25

Published by Benn,, London,, 1928

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4to. xvi+146pp. Colour frontispiece (by William Orpen), 111 pages of plates (45 in colour), and in text illustrations. Limited edition of 25 copies, this numbered 22. Printed on hand-made paper, top edge gilt. Gilt cover design by Gordon Craig. Original publisher's cream quarter vellum lettered gilt at the spine over mauve boards with gilt cover design/ illustration by Gordon Craig. Articles by theatre experts, with superb illustrations of costumes designed for the stage. The designers include Edward Gordon Craig, Laurence Bradshaw, Max Beerbohm, Lucy Norton, Albert ffrench Salkeld, Norah McGuinness, Paul Shelving, Edmund Dulac, Doris Zinkeisen,Charles Ricketts, Claud Lovat Fraser, Oliver Messell and William Nicholson. Some of these designs were previously unpublished. Cavanagh, British Theatre. A Bibliography 1901 to 1985, 525: 'Limited edition of 25 numbered copies on hand-made paper. This includes two plates in colour, not in the ordinary edition. All the designs are by English artists.' Bright clean very good indeed copy with slight foxing to some of the captioned tissue guards and rear of plates.

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Title
ROBES OF THESPIS: COSTUME DESIGNS BY MODERN ARTISTS, ONE OF 25
Author
SHERINGHAM (GEORGE) & R.BOYD MORRISON, EDITORS FOR
Publisher
Benn,, London,
Publication year
1928
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
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