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Volpone: or The Fox. by BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. JONSON, Ben - 1898.

by BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. JONSON, Ben

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Volpone: or The Fox.

by BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. JONSON, Ben

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New York:: John Lane,, 1898.. A new edition; No. 150 of 1000 copies on Art Paper (100 more on Japanese vellum).. publisher's blue gilt cloth after a design by Beardsley.. A bit shaken; top edge foxed; light rubbing and use to cloth.. Folio,. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and a cover design illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley.
  • Bookseller Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Publisher's blue gilt cloth after a design by Beardsley.
  • Book Condition Used - A bit shaken; top edge foxed; light rubbing and use to cloth.
  • Edition A new edition; No. 150 of 1000 copies on Art Paper (100 more on
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher John Lane,
  • Place of Publication New York:
  • Date Published 1898.
  • Pages xlv, 193 pp.
  • Size Folio,

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Volpone: or the Fox.: A new edition with a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan and a frontispiece, five initial letters and a cover design illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley, together with an [sic] eulogy of the artist by Robert Ross.

by BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illus.); JONSON, Ben

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London: Leonard Smithers & Co,, 1898. Featuring some of Beardsley's last completed illustrations First Beardsley edition, deluxe issue, number 79 of 100 copies printed on japon paper, specially bound in full vellum, and featuring an extra suite of five plates with larger versions of Beardsley's vignettes. In November 1897, Beardsley was commissioned to produce 24 illustrations for this edition of Jonson's Volpone, including a frontispiece, decorative initials, and a front cover design. In the event, he could only complete the cover design, the frontispiece, and six vignettes before his death on 16 March 1898. This was, however, a project that Beardsley was passionate about, writing "I am making pictures of Ben Jonson's adorable and astonishing Volpone" and "I carry Volpone about with me from dawn to dawn and dream of nothing else". He considered his illustration for the frontispiece ("Volpone Adoring His Treasure") as "one of the strongest things I have ever done" (cited in Nelson, p. 163). Large… Read More
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