Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig : the prose & poetry of action / by Cynthia Splatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Splatt, Cynthia, author.

Contributor:

Taylor, W. Thomas, printer.

Holman, David, other.

Out of Sorts Letter Foundry, compositor.

BookLab (Firm), binder.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Mohawk Paper Mills (Cohoes, N.Y.), papermaker.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 189.

Publication No. 189 The Book Club of California

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927.

Duncan, Isadora.

Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966.

Craig, Edward Gordon.

Dancers--United States--Biography.

Dancers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Perpetua.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, [1], 138, [2] p., viii pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits. ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

Austin, Texas : W. Thomas Taylor

Other Title:

Isadora Duncan and Gordon Craig : the prose and poetry of action

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1988

Notes:

"Four hundred fifty copies of this book were produced by W. Thomas Taylor in Austin, Texas. The type is Monotype Perpetua, composed at the Out of Sorts Foundery; the text paper is Mohawk Superfine. The illustrations were printed offset by David Holman, and the edition was bound in Austin by BookLab."--Colophon.

"Title in grey, green, yellow and black with hand coloring by Albert Sperisen of the device. Eight numbered plates including reproductions of Craig’s drawings and set designs, a facsimile reproduction of a letter and a photographic portrait of Duncan and Craig, not included in pagination ... Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: teal and tan cloth boards; white cloth spine with title stamped in blue.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-129) and index.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C 1257 Ni") in pencil on front free endpaper.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in white paper dust jacket.

Cited in:

Book Club of California. The two hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol2-The-Two-Hundredth-Book.pdf number 189

OCLC:

19478946