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Under the Hill
by Beardsley, Aubrey
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1921. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse by Aubrey Beardsley with Illustrations. 4to, xvi, 70 pp & 4pp adds. Photogravure frontis, 16 plates by Beardsley (3 illustrations are published for the 1st time). Publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Fine copy with crisp pages and plates as well as it's dust jacket. Beardsley was an illustrator and writer, "notorious in the 1890s as the outstanding artist of fin-de-siecle decadence." [Oxf Comp]. This volume is a collection of Beardsley's literary remains, including the dedication and text of "Under the Hill," "The Three Musicians," "The Ballad of a Barber," a translation of Catullus, "Table Talk," and two letters.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7635
- Title
- Under the Hill
- Author
- Beardsley, Aubrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Publisher
- John Lane the Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE & PO;
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About the Seller
Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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Garrison, New York
About Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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