Description
13 vols, 4to, original printed boards, illus. by Aubrey Beardsley and other artists, published by Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-1897 (13)
Footnote
Note:
'The Yellow Book' was a quarterly literary periodical published in London from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane. A leading journal of the 1890s, it was associated to some degree with Aestheticism and Decadence and contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres including short stories, poetry, essays, book illustrations, portraits and reproductions of paintings. Aubrey Beardsley was its first art editor and has been credited with the idea of the yellow cover, associated as it was with the somewhat 'immoral' French fiction of the period. Works by artists such as John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and Philip Wilson Steer were featured, as well as writings by equally distinguished authors, including Henry James and H.G. Wells.