THE YELLOW BOOK. de LITERARY PERIODICAL - 1895

An Illustrated Quarterly. Volume IV January, 1895. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, Vigo Street; Boston: Copeland & Day; Agents for the Colonies: Robt. A Thompson & Co. Double Pott 8vo; vignette title-page, sixteen inserted plates, and one double-spread supplemental plate (by Beardsley), with tissue guards, all included in the pagination; integral blank leaf follows supplemental plate, followed by 16pp. ‘Yellow Book Advertisements’ (continuing the signatures), and 16pp. publisher’s text-paper advertisements dated 1895, at end, the final page and a half being blank; pp.290+[ii]+16; bright yellow buckram, blocked and lettered black on sides and spine; a.e. uncut. Slight fading to cloth of spine; end-papers foxed, and slight foxing to edges and a couple of pages; otherwise a fine copy, partly unopened. The first issue, with the advertiser which was not present in later issues, and the text-paper catalogue, correctly, dated 1895. This is the first of Lane’s 1895 ‘Yellow Book’ catalogues, distinguished from the later one by the last page and a half being blank, and the fact that it omits all authors whose names begin with the letter ‘C’. The principal literary periodical of the ‘90s, including work by Richard Le Gallienne, Henry Harland, Graham R. Tomson, H.B. Marriott Watson, Dolf Wyllarde, Olive Custance, James Ashcroft Noble, Richard Garnett, Victoria Cross [sic], Kenneth Grahame, Norman Hapgood, E. Nesbit, Marion Hepworth Dixon, C.W. Dalmon, Evelyn Sharp, Max Beerbohm, John Davidson; Beardsley, Sickert, Patten Wilson, Charles Conder, Wilson Steer, William Hyde, Will Rothenstein, etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.