Lot 79
Beardsley (Aubrey) The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, one of 50 copies on Japanese vellum, from an edition limited to 300, For Private Circulation, 1907
Hammer Price: £900
Description
Beardsley (Aubrey) The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, first edition, one of 50 copies on Japanese vellum, from an edition limited to 300, light browning, upper hinge cracked but firm, chip to front free endpaper fore-edge, bookplate of Walter Delay Ward to front pastedown, original vellum, lettered in gilt, slight bowing to upper cover, light soiling, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, [Lasner 151], 4to, For Private Circulation, 1907.
⁂ The first complete publication of Beardsley's unfinished erotic novel, later published as Under the Hill.
Description
Beardsley (Aubrey) The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, first edition, one of 50 copies on Japanese vellum, from an edition limited to 300, light browning, upper hinge cracked but firm, chip to front free endpaper fore-edge, bookplate of Walter Delay Ward to front pastedown, original vellum, lettered in gilt, slight bowing to upper cover, light soiling, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, [Lasner 151], 4to, For Private Circulation, 1907.
⁂ The first complete publication of Beardsley's unfinished erotic novel, later published as Under the Hill.
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