Edward Craig William Nicholson (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 'This edition of 300 copies, of which numbers 1-150 accompany the portfolios of plates. Printing completed March 1978. This is copy no: 252.' 252 is written in. Below it is the signature of Edward Craig. So this is Not accompanied by the portfolio of plates. It will be the Only signed copy for sale on the Internet. There is a List of Plates in Portfolio on the page following the signed limitation page. There are 11 numbered pages and 16 in total. The book was 'set in Caslon type and printed at Whittington Court on Rives mould-made paper by John & Rosalind Randle and Miriam Macgregor, and bound by Pat Hicks at the Whittington Press.' The paper is nicely thick. It is in excellent shape, nicely bright and free of any soiling. There's no creasing. No markings. And with the exception of Mr. Craig's signature, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. The pages are deckled or rough-cut. You can see the mustard-colored covers in the photos. They are very clean. There is a small crease at the front top right corner and rear bottom corner, also a little nick at the top edge of the front near the spine (no tear), and a light crease off the top edge of the front and rear cover. The black lettering on the front is very bright. The book is very solidly bound (there is a gold twine between page four and five which tells you how it's bound). Included with the book is a separate four page glossy prospectus with nine photographs. Edward Craig is the son of Edward Gordon Craig who learned to carve wood under the tutelage of William Nicholson and James Pryde. Edward Gordon Craig was also 'an English modernist theatre practitioner, an actor, a director and a scenic designer, as well as the author of an influential body of theoretical writings. The Gordon Craig Theatre, built in Stevenage (the town of his birth), was named in his honour in 1975. Edward Gordon Craig was the ' illegitimate' son of the architect Edward Godwin and the actress Ellen Terry.'. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Hardback, original cloth drop-back boxes with illustration mounted onto front cover. Folio, 44.5 x 32cm. Number 7 of 150 sets, with 34 loose plates including 4 unused versions with tissue guards. Each with a separate introduction by Edward Craig, one of 225 signed by him. Bottom corners of slipcase a little bumped only. Otherwise an excellent copy. [18507]. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Imperial 4to (15½" x 11¼"), limited edition, number 8 of 150 copies printed at Whittington Court from the original woodblocks on a Columbian hand-press by John & Rosalind Randle, of a total edition of 225 copies, 34 loose woodblock prints in black on Camber Sand handmade paper, interleaved with plain tissue guards & 3 orange card printed title sheets; [with] Royal quarto (13" x 10¼"), "William Nicholson's An Almanac of Twelve Sports and London Types An Introduction to the Reprint from the Original Woodblocks" by Edward Craig, pp. (1-4), 5-12, (4) limited edition, number 8 of 150 copies signed by Craig, of a total edition of 225 copies. Original orange printed card wrappers & 3 printed orange card paper title sheets in original brown & cream-white cloth drop-back box (17½" x 12½") with mounted woodblock print "Any Bar Barmaid" on the upper side, printed paper lettering piece, printed paper colophon mounted on verso of the upper side. Fine in fine box with box corners a bit bumped. Sheets, plates, & wrappers clean, unmarked, complete. H7699. Signed by Illustrator(s).