A Production Being Thirty-Two Collotype Plates Of Designs Projected Or Realised For The Pretenders of Henrik Ibsen And Produced At The Royal Theatre Copenhagen 1926

London: Oxford University Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Very good. Craig, Edward Gordon. 21 pages in text. Large folio, 51 x 39 cm, Limited edition one of 605 copies. Thirty-two full page theatrical designs, including eleven in color -- watercolor, chalk and gouache drawings with tissue guards. As a director Craig was testy, and considered extremely difficult to work with; he ultimately refused to direct or design any project over which he did not have complete artistic control. In practice this left him mainly jobless for the last forty years of his life. Nick to backstrip head, top of cover slight fade. Large, very heavy production.