Resultados de búsqueda: a book of fifty drawings with de beardsley aubrey

first edition 4to. [8],212pp., frontispiece portrait plate, 50 full-page drawings by Beardsley each with an accompanying title leaf, publisher's scarlet cloth with the front cover very boldly pictorially blocked and lettered with a Beardsley design, small Beardsley vignette gilt blocked at centre of rear cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, endpapers, half-title, first illustration (on different paper from others) foxed, spine faded, top 1 cm.of boards a little faded, two small splash marks at top edge of boards slightly bleeding onto the top edge of the first illustration, else a nice bright copy.

London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. First editions. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Teg. 2 vols. Very good. 212, 209 (2) pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. First title in a limited edition of 500 and second, limited edition of 1000. Two pages of adverts in Second Book. The two volumes collect together various book and other illustrations by Beardsley, including those from Le Morte Darthur, Salome, The Yellow Book and other works. A handsome showcase of the iconic artist's work. Endpapers in first book toned, with book label of Mark Samuels Lasner front board paste-down, rubbing to corners and backstrip extremities. Second book with two book plates, spine darkened, wear to corners and backstrip head and foot. Interior contents of both fresh, clean and bright.