[London]: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1913
Physical Description
xii, [2], 199, [3] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
General Note
Copyright in the United States of America, by Haldane Macfall, 1912. [reverse of half title-page]
Tissue-guarded frontispiece showing 'The Splendid Wayfaring' by Gordon Craig
Contents
Foreword -- The Personal note -- I. Of life -- II. Of art -- III. Of craftmanship -- IV. Of beauty -- V. Of the mighty acreage of the garden of the arts, and of the vast significance that dwell therein -- VI. Of impressionism -- VII. Of the intellect and the senses in art -- VIII. Of the splendour of the passions -- IX. Of art for art’s sake -- X. Of the brain-thief -- XI. Of criticism and the milk of asses -- XII. Of decay -- XII. Of the dealing in antiquities -- XIV. Of the great dead -- XV. Of the academic of mind -- XVI. Of style -- XVII. Of the law -- XIX. Liberty the breath of art -- XX. Of authority and the law-giver -- XX. Of the receivers of art -- XXI. Of the subject -- XXII. Of the breed of the conquerors -- XXIII. Of the splendid rebels -- XXIV. Of the province of the art of the drama to amuse -- XXV. Of the manifold dangers that threaten the art of the drama -- XXVI. Of the puritan in us all -- XXVII. Of the power of the drama -- XXIX. Of the golden God of the puritan - thrift -- XXX. Of the might of the theatre
Provenance
The front pastedown carries the bookplate of W. G. Paulson Townsend
Binding Note
Bound in original purple moire cloth covered boards with gilt titles and gilt decoration and borders to spine and front and rear boards. Top edge of text-block gilt. Decorative chapter-heads and first letter-heads and tail-pieces.
Subject
Illustrated books
Aesthetics
Art - philosophy
Woodcuts