The Page, Volume 1

The Page is a journal devoted to the literary and visual arts, and theater, edited by Edward Gordon Craig. It appeared monthly from January 1898, then quarterly between 1899 and 1901. Craig wrote much of the text, often using pseudonyms, and provided the woodcut illustrations, with occasional contributions by artists such as Max Beerbohm and Edward Burne-Jones. Poetry, prose, and music was included, together with poster illustrations, costume designs, portraits, and bookplates. Working as an actor-manager in the late 1890s, Craig had learned how to make woodcuts from James Pryde and William Nicholson.
This volume has a linen spine, brown paper covers with woodcut image and title pasted on front cover; title and date printed on paper label affixed to spine. The pages are not numbered, but the list of contents gives authors and subjects, and notes that the volume contains "Woodcuts, quotations, book plates and portraits". Volumes 1 limited to 140 copies, volume 2 to 410 copies, volumes 3-4 to 300 copies.
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Volume 1: January-December (No.1-No.12)
No. 1:
Lettered in table of contents:
A Fable by Count Tolstoi; Rember by Marcus Aurelius; Olivia (a woodcut) by Gordon Craig; Concerning Hamlet by Gordon Craig; Sub-Editor by Gordon Craig; Marshal by Gordon Craig; Two Bookplates by Gordon Craig; The Editor by Gordon Craig; Supplement (hand-colored) by Gordon Craig; The Falconer by Gordon Craig.
[Note in text: "Note-The Editor of the first three or four numbers of The Page was a little girl."]
No. 2:
Lettered in table of contents:
A Menu by Gordon Craig; A Musketeer (1630) by Gordon Craig; School Scenes by Count Tolstoi; Bookplate of Miss Ellen Terry by Gordon Craig; Four Bookplates by Gordon Craig; Supplement, Walt Whitman by Gordon Craig
No. 3:
Lettered in table of contents:
Title Page by Gordon Craig; Illustration to a novel by Dumas by Gordon Craig; To Robin (at Dinner) by Edith Craig; Tail Piece by Gordon Craig; Aramis in Paris by Gordon Craig; School Scenes (continued) by Count Tolstoi; Headpiece by Gordon Craig; Three Bookplates by Gordon Craig; Rosie by Gordon Craig; A Woodcut by Mary Craig
No. 4:
Lettered in table of contents:
A Portait (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; School Scenes (continued) by Count Tolstoi; The White Gate by Gordon Craig; After Music (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; A Woodcut (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; The Two Friends (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig
[Note in text : "Note-All the Woodcuts in this Number are coloured by hand."]
No. 5:
Lettered in table of contents:
The Rose, C.R. (Charles Rex, 1660) by Gordon Craig; Title Page by Gordon Craig; Bussy d'Amboise, 1580 by Gordon Craig; School Scenes (continued) by Count Tolstoi; Brian de Monsoreau by Gordon Craig; A Portrait (Oliver Bath) by Gordon Craig; Queen Victoria, 1889 by The Editor; Walt Whitman, 1819 by The Editor; A Menu by Gordon Craig; Supplement (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; D'Artagnan (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig
No. 6:
Lettered in table of contents:
Title Page by Gordon Craig; Two Bookplates by Gordon Craig; School Scenes (continued) by Count Tolstoi; Rosie and Robin by Gordon Craig; Romeo & Juliet by Gordon Craig; Romeo & Juliet , Act I., Sc.I by The Editor; Marguerite de Valois by Gordon Craig; Bookplate (R.C.) by Gordon Craig; Double Page Supplement by Gordon Craig; (hand-coloured) Miss Ellen Terry by Gordon Craig
No. 7:
Lettered in table of contents:
Title Page by Gordon Craig; Illustration to Dumas by Gordon Craig; School Scenes (continued) by Count Tolstoi; Lines on the Alligator by Tony Feeman; Woodcut, The Alligator by Gordon Craig; Design for a Poster by Gordon Craig; Quotations by Walt Whitman and others; Cock in Boots (Sign for an Inn) by Gordon Craig; Supplement (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; Design for a Poster (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig
No. 8:
Lettered in table of contents:
Title Page (Rose) by Gordon Craig; A Bookplate by Gordon Craig; Concerning Confectionery by G. Jarrin; Design for a Poster by Gordon Craig; A Farmhouse, Benhall, Suffolk by Gordon Craig; A Bookplate by Gordon Craig; Supplement (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; The Vagabonds, A Woodcut (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig
No. 9:
Lettered in table of contents:
A Bookplate (G.C.) by Gordon Craig; Chicot, 1590 (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; Quotations by R.L.Stevenson, etc.; A Poster, The Dome (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; Concerning Confectionery (continued) by Guglielmo Jarrin; Bookplate by Gordon Craig; A Young Man, Older (hand-cloured) by Gordon Craig; Headpiece and Bookplate by Gordon Craig; Supplement (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; Gorenflot (hand-cloured) by Gordon Craig
[Note in text: "Note-The type for this Number was set up by The Editor"
No. 10:
Lettered in table of contents:
Verses from the Book of Penny Toys by Gordon Craig; Je Suis! The Cock (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; School Scenes (continued) by Count Tolstoi; Ornamental Confectioner by Gordon Craig; Concerning Confectionery (continued) by Guglielmo Jarrin; George Fish, Architect by Gordon Craig; THe Hill by Gordon Craig; Quotations by Emerson, Carlyle, etc.; A Bookplate (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig
No. 11:
Lettered in table of contents:
Robert Macaire (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; Concerning Confectionery (continued) by Guglielmo Jarrin; Two to One on the Little 'Un by Gordon Craig; Master Betty as "Macbeth" (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; Quotations by R.L. Steventson, etc.; The Provinces (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; The Bicycle Theif by Gordon Craig; School Scenes (continued) by Count Tolstoi
No. 12:
Lettered in table of contents:
The Revolt (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; The Little Girl with a Doll (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; To Make Pot Pourri by The Editor; The Plot by Gordon Craig' Robert Briquet, nee Chicot (hand-coloured) by Gordon Craig; Quotations by Walt Whitman; Bookplate by Gordon Craig; Dedication by Gordon Craig
[Note in text: "All the Drawings in this Volume designed and cut on wood by Gordon Craig, excepting one in the March Number. The Cover to this Volume is designed by Oliver Bath."]