[Beardsley, Aubrey- A Complete Run] The Savoy

London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First Edition. First Edition. Eight volumes. Quartos. The complete run of the famous Savoy, an Illustrated Quarterly numbers 1-8, (all published), edited by Arthur Symons with a plethora of plates and illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, and others, numbers 1 and 2 in original pink boards and 3-8 in original green wrappers. Cover illustrations to each volume by Aubrey Beardsley, with further illustrations by some of the great artists of the 1890s including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Walter Sickert. Smithers, Symons and Aubrey Beardsley, designed The Savoy to follow up in more graphic detail the earlier successful Yellow Book, but had fallen in popularity. Appearing in the Savoy are work by Max Beerbohm, Joseph Conrad, Ford Maddox Hueffer, Ernest Dowson, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, William Blake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, W. Rothenstein, and others. The final issue is devoted entirely to the art of Aubrey Beardsley. A nicely preserved set, with the spine of number one rubbed, the others rubbed or lightly rubbed, number four splitting along upper joint, foxing present in the highly acidic paper, but not really affecting the art or plates. Scarce thus.