The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler

This long-awaitededition brings together for the first time 366 letters, cards and telegramsexchanged between Craig and his patron the cosmopolitan Count Kessler.

Animportant primary source, illuminated by Dr Newman's commentary, it focuses onthree areas of particular importance:- 1.

Craig's artistic ideas and the spreadof his influence through exhibitions and books; proposals are developed forwork with Otto Brahm, Eleonora Duse, Max Reinhardt, Henry van de Velde, EduardVerkade, Leopold Jessner, Dyaghilev, Beerbohm Tree, C.

B. Cochran, and others. 2. Kessler's Cranach Press Hamletwith wood-engraved illustrations by Craig; this is a landmark in the history oftwentieth-century book design and printing whose genesis is now fully revealedin these letters and amplified with reproductions of eighteen trial pageproofs. 3. The relationship between an artist and his patron. Exceptionallydetailed indexes are an additional feature of this book.