Gordon Craig's Book of Penny Toys
Edward Gordon Craig British
Publisher At the Sign of the Rose British
Sold by Lamley & Co. British
Not on view
In the late 1890s, while working as an actor-manager, Craig met the artists James Pryde and William Nicholson, who taught him how to make woodcuts. Craig and his sister Edith wrote most of the verses in this book, and he cut and printed twenty woodblocks to create the illustrations, published the work himself and dedicated it to his children Rosemary (born 1894) and Robert (born 1895).