Lot 85
Symons (Arthur) editor. The Savoy, no. 1, lengthy signed inscription by Symons, 1896
Hammer Price: £2,400
Description
Symons (Arthur, editor) The Savoy, no. 1, lengthy signed inscription by Symons to front free endpaper recto and verso, plates and illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, William Rothenstein, Charles Conder and others, browning to endpapers, original boards, browned, chipped and worn with old tape repairs to extremities, joints splitting, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 4to, 1896.
⁂ A superb and long inscription by Symons, reminiscing about his time in Dieppe, discussing Charles Conder, Ernest Dowson and, in particular, Aubrey Beardsley.
"Beardsley had a temperament curiously unlike ours: more imaginatively depraved, but with none of the animal in him. After days of silence he would begin one of his malicious, one of his evil drawings; and the more evil, the more malicious they were, the more they enchanted him. ?Malicious and abnormal - but with what sinister genius he achieved them!... My Savoy - it was no fault of mine - was doomed to fail... I was obliged to write the December number entirely by myself - with the aid of Beardsley."
Provenance: Jerome Kern (1885-1945), The later library of Jerome Kern, Parke Bennett Galleries, New York, 16 October 1962, lot 259.
Description
Symons (Arthur, editor) The Savoy, no. 1, lengthy signed inscription by Symons to front free endpaper recto and verso, plates and illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, William Rothenstein, Charles Conder and others, browning to endpapers, original boards, browned, chipped and worn with old tape repairs to extremities, joints splitting, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 4to, 1896.
⁂ A superb and long inscription by Symons, reminiscing about his time in Dieppe, discussing Charles Conder, Ernest Dowson and, in particular, Aubrey Beardsley.
"Beardsley had a temperament curiously unlike ours: more imaginatively depraved, but with none of the animal in him. After days of silence he would begin one of his malicious, one of his evil drawings; and the more evil, the more malicious they were, the more they enchanted him. ?Malicious and abnormal - but with what sinister genius he achieved them!... My Savoy - it was no fault of mine - was doomed to fail... I was obliged to write the December number entirely by myself - with the aid of Beardsley."
Provenance: Jerome Kern (1885-1945), The later library of Jerome Kern, Parke Bennett Galleries, New York, 16 October 1962, lot 259.
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