The Yellow Book - Volumes I-XIII. by YELLOW BOOK. Harland, Henry, and Beardsley, Aubrey (edit) - 1894-1897

Elkin Mathews & John Lane The Bodley Head, London., 1894-1897. A complete set. Aubrey Beardsley's position as art editor ended between the fourth and fifth volumes, following the arrest of Oscar Wilde and because of Beardsley's perceived connection with him, but his drawings are what distinguish this quarterly and account for its aura of eighteen-nineties decadence. The literary contributors include Henry James, Max Beerbohm, George Egerton, Edmund Gosse, John Davidson, Kenneth Grahame, Lionel Johnson, Arthur Symons, Theodore Wratislaw, E. Nesbit, Dollie Radford, Baron Corvo, George Gissing, John Buchan, Vernon Lee, Richard Garnett, W.B. Yeats, etc, etc. The illustrators include Aubrey Beardsley, Sir Frederick Leighton, Walter Sickert, Joseph Pennell, Laurence Housman, R. Anning Bell, P. Wilson Steer, John S. Sargent, Max Beerbohm, William Hyde, Charles Conder, William Strang, Bernard Sleigh, Katherine Cameron, Charles Robinson, etc, etc. Adverts at rear of each volume. Many pages unopened. From the library of Admiral Earl David Beatty with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume.Someone (not guilty, your honour) has had a go at the covers with some sort of cloth cleaner, with less than happy results, the most noticeable effect being a fading of the black lettering on the spines. Still perfectly legible, though. Abrasions to middle of spines of volumes IV and VII. Sporadic foxing. Some bumping to corners. Overall the condition of the set is at least good, internally very good indeed.