Lot 70
[Beardsley (Aubrey) & others.] The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol. [all published], Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-97
Hammer Price: £1,800
Description
[Beardsley (Aubrey) & others.] The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol. [all published], plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, tissue guards, later issue without advertisements at rear, book-label of Tyrell's Bookshop, Adelaide to vol. 1 front pastedown, some light scattered spotting, light browning to endpapers but otherwise remarkably clean internally, original pictorial yellow cloth block in black, vol. 1 & 2 spines slightly dulled and with 1 or 2 nicks to ends, light rubbing, but overall a very crisp and bright set, [Lasner 65], small 4to, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-97.
⁂ With literary contributions by Henry James, Edmund Gosse, Kenneth Grahame, William Butler Yeats, HG Wells, and others.
Description
[Beardsley (Aubrey) & others.] The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 vol. [all published], plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, Laurence Housman, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm and others, tissue guards, later issue without advertisements at rear, book-label of Tyrell's Bookshop, Adelaide to vol. 1 front pastedown, some light scattered spotting, light browning to endpapers but otherwise remarkably clean internally, original pictorial yellow cloth block in black, vol. 1 & 2 spines slightly dulled and with 1 or 2 nicks to ends, light rubbing, but overall a very crisp and bright set, [Lasner 65], small 4to, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-97.
⁂ With literary contributions by Henry James, Edmund Gosse, Kenneth Grahame, William Butler Yeats, HG Wells, and others.