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The Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly. COMPLETE Run In Thirteen Volumes
by [BEARDSLEY, Aubrey]
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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About This Item
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane [The Bodley Head], 1897. First Editions. Uniformly Bound Hardcovers. Very Good/Fine. John Singer Sargent, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, Walter Sickert, Philip Wilson Steer, et al.. Thirteen volumes. 8vo. Profusely illustrated with over 200 plates. Original black-stamped yellow cloth. Bound without advertisements. Spine of Vol. I a tad dulled, front cover a touch rubbed. Withal, original cloth, exceptionally bright, in VG-to-Fine condition. First editions of all thirteen volumes of Beardsley's celebrated art-nouveau quarterly with plates after works by Beardsley, Sargent, Sickert, Rothenstein and may others. With literary contributions from luminaries such as W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Henry James, Anatole France, Kenneth Grahame, et al.
The renowned journal was conceived in 1894 by Beardsley and the American novelist Henry Harland, who explained: "In one of the densest and soupiest and yellowest of all London's infernalest fox, Beardsley and I sat together the whole afternoon ... we thought it quite a pity that London publishers should fee themselves under any obligation to refuse any of our good manuscripts ... and then and there we decided to have a magazine of our own and the next day we had an appointment with John Lane."
What they had in mind was a literary journal that would attract attention for its content, format, and unique artistic vision. Beardsley, who served as the art director for the quarterly until his dismissal in 1895, due to his association with Oscar Wilde, was responsible for the cover designs for the first five volumes and, more importantly, for setting an aesthetic tone that touched on morbidity, eroticism, perversity and irony, The Yellow Book carried on until 1897, giving rise to a variety of artists and writers whose collective spirit gave rise to a cultural spirit that transcended Victoriana.
A magnificent set.
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- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7203
- Title
- The Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly. COMPLETE Run In Thirteen Volumes
- Author
- [BEARDSLEY, Aubrey]
- Illustrator
- John Singer Sargent, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, Walter Sickert, Philip Wilson Steer, et al.
- Format/Binding
- Uniformly Bound Hardcovers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Editions
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Elkin Mathews & John Lane [The Bodley Head]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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