Woodcuts and some words

Edward Gordon Craig

RA Collection: Book

Record number

11/305

Author

Edward Gordon Craig

Imprint

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1925

Physical Description

xx, 122 pages : illustrations, 58 plates on 29 leaves frontispiece ; 22 x 18 cm. (hbk).

General Note

Printed in Great Britain at the Temple Press, Letchworth
Head and tail pieces

Contents

Introduction / Campbell Dodgson -- Foreword -- Two notes on black / John Ruskin and Odilon Redon -- Preface. Why I engraved, why not snap a Kodak? -- How to engrave -- The use of engraving to the theatre -- Other reasons -- Programmes -- Professor Geheimrat -- Chapter 1. William Nicholson -- James Pryde -- Acting in the province -- Footlights -- Grease-paint and wigs -- Ion -- Chorley -- Peer Gynt -- Hamlet -- The poetic plays -- Not yet awake -- I stage manage -- Wood-cutting again -- Grey -- A little money -- Irving -- Much money: his policy -- Actors’ salaries at home and abroad -- I go on strike -- I attend dress-rehearsals -- I draw for the Press -- My sketches -- The kindness of editors -- Bonnie Dundee -- I win a victory -- Chapter 2. What I lost -- The Lyceum theatre -- The Dead Heart -- Commercialism in the theatre -- My friends in other lands -- An ultimatum -- “Do as was done last time” -- We reject it -- We go towards a new theatre -- Chapter 3. What is a woodblock? -- Paper and wood -- Speed -- Its value sometimes -- An airship -- The box tree -- How to prepare a box block -- Mr. Lacey Evans of Red Lion Court -- Chapter 4. Blocks engraved from 1895 to 1923 -- The Page -- I produce three operas -- Two programmes -- I produce three plays and a half -- I go to Germany -- A German Friend -- The Art of the Theatre is published in English, German and Dutch -- I go to Italy -- The Mask -- A prize -- Sixty reproductions of woodcuts: a list of woodcuts designed and engraved between 1895 and 1923 -- Something useful I hope. A very little history -- Woodcuts and printing machines -- Modern English engravers -- Some Frenchmen -- Pen v. Woodcut -- Wood-cutting not diificult -- English, Turkish and American woods -- How to preserve the box -- How to draw on it -- The tools -- How to hold then -- How to cut -- What to avoid when cutting -- Cross-hatching -- Black and grey -- How to print your own blocks -- Initial letters as practice -- My Book of Penny Toys -- Last word

Name as Subject

Craig, Edward Henry Gordon

Subject

Wood Engraving - Techniques
Biography

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