Lot 77
Beardsley (Aubrey) A Book of Fifty Drawings, one of 500 copies on Japanese vellum, Leonard Smithers, 1897
Hammer Price: £1,600
Description
Beardsley (Aubrey) A Book of Fifty Drawings, one of 500 copies on Japanese vellum, portrait frontispiece, 50 plates by Beardsley, captioned plate guards, foxing to first plate and endpapers, ink ownership inscription of W. M. Hoole to front pastedown dated 1934 and with his neat ink annotations to the List of Drawings at end, original red pictorial cloth, gilt, very slight fading to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, t.e.g., a remarkably sharp, fine copy, [Lasner 112], 4to, Leonard Smithers, 1897.
Description
Beardsley (Aubrey) A Book of Fifty Drawings, one of 500 copies on Japanese vellum, portrait frontispiece, 50 plates by Beardsley, captioned plate guards, foxing to first plate and endpapers, ink ownership inscription of W. M. Hoole to front pastedown dated 1934 and with his neat ink annotations to the List of Drawings at end, original red pictorial cloth, gilt, very slight fading to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, t.e.g., a remarkably sharp, fine copy, [Lasner 112], 4to, Leonard Smithers, 1897.