(Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, Max Beerbohm, Henry James...

Hammer

£60

(Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, Max Beerbohm, Henry James etc), 'The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly', London, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, April 1894, Volume I, 1st edition, frontis + 14 illustrations on 15 full page plates as called for (three of which by Aubrey Beardsley), 272pp + 18pp Index to Publishers' Announcements followed by 14,[1]pp catalogue of adverts dated 1894, original yellow pictorial cloth blocked in black (by Beardsley), (worn, spine browned, inner joints split). The first volume of the iconic literary and artistic periodical of the 1890's, first edited by Beardsley and forever associated with his artwork and the more decadent attitudes of the fin-de-siecle