Volpone: Or The Foxe by [BEARDSLEY, Aubrey]. JONSON, Ben - 1898

London: Leonard Smithers & Co, 1898. limited. hardback. Near Fine, unnumbered, original blue cloth, blocked in gilt; text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked; some foxing to endpapers, otherwise and excellent copy of a beautiful and unusual book.. 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or The Foxe. With A Critical Essay On The Author By Vincent O'Sullivan Together With An Eulogy Of The Artist By Robert Ross Just under full-size quarto.

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. No. 22 of 1000 copies on Art Paper. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt with Beardsley's designs on upper and lower covers, slight cover wear, else fine and attractive. No. 22 of 1000 copies on Art Paper. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Beardsley's Last Book. Beardsley had intended a series of 24 drawings for Jonson's Venetian comedy, but died before completing it, at the age of 26.

New York: John Lane, 1898. First Beardsley Edition, copy #393 of 1000 for England and America. Frontispiece, Five Large Initial Letters and Vignettes, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Original aquamarine cloth with elaborately gilt-stamped front cover after Beardsley's design. Fine bright copy. Bookplate of Maurice Wertheim. In open faced cloth slipcase. Beardsley, Aubrey. First Beardsley Edition, copy #393 of 1000 for England and America. Frontispiece, Five Large Initial Letters and Vignettes, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Beardsley's Volpone. One of Beardsley's consummate works, published here for the first time after his death. Ross's warm appreciation of Beardsley is an essential piece of Beardsleyana.

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Hardcover. Fine. New edition with a critical essay by Vincent O'Sullivan and a eulogy by Robert Ross. Front and back cover designs, frontispiece, and five initial letters by Beardsley. Large octavo. Blue-green cloth gilt. Tiny nick on front fly, still fine. Copy number 290 of 1000 copies of the trade issue. *MSL 129*.