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Lot 138
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
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Live / Chicago
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[BEARDSLEY, Aubrey Vincent (1872-1898), Illustrator]. The Yellow Book an Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston (vols. I-X), & London and New York (vols. XI-XIII): Elkin Mathews & John Lane and Copeland & Day (vols. I-II), John Lane and Copeland & Day (vols. III-X), and John Lane: The Bodley Head (vols. XI-XIII), April 1894 - April 1897.
13 volumes [all published], 4to (201 x 158 mm). Numerous illustrations by Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Walter Crane, and others. (Some light spotting to a few leaves in each volume.) Original pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black (spines of a few volumes slightly blistered, some minor soiling and rubbing, hinges to most volumes starting, a few reinforced).
A FINE COPY of this celebrated journal, apparently a later issue without advertisements. Contributors included Henry James, H.G. Wells, Edmund Gosse, and Kenneth Grahame. Beardsley served as art editor until, following Oscar Wilde's arrest, John Lane dismissed him. With "1868/268/13" or "263/13" pencil annotation to rear pastedowns.
Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio