Lot 94
Beardsley, Aubrey, and others.
Books, Maps, Photographs & Manuscripts
Auction: 12 July 2005 at 13:00 BST
Description
The Yellow Book, an Illustrated Quarterly, 13 volumes, first edition, plates, original yellow pictorial cloth, head and tail of spines rubbed, spines discoloured, 8vo, 1894-97
Footnote
Note: The leading artistic and literary journal of the 1890's with reproductions of original art by Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Charles Conder, Walter Crane, Laurence Housman, Joseph Pennel, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert, Wilson Steer, and others. Literary contributors include Beerbohm, John Buchan, John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse, Kenneth Grahame, Henry James, Lionel Johnson, Arthur Symons, W.B. Yeats, and others.
Provenance: A.A. Kisby and W.T. Cranfield, bookplates