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London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894-97. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 6.5". Various. A sought after set of all thirteen volumes from the widely celebrated Victorian literary and artistic periodical 'The Yellow Book'. Complete run of all first edition thirteen volumes of The Yellow Book, a leading British literary quarterly magazine in the 1890s, running from 1894 to 1897, with famous authors such as Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, and Henry James contributing some first publications. The periodical was also notable for publishing many female authors and illustrators within, including Ella D'Arcy, George Egerton, Ada Leverson and Ethel Reed.The magazine contained a variety of literary and artistic genres, and was often associated with the currents of aestheticism and decadence. Including poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. John Lane and Elkin Mathews, the founders of The Bodley Head, published this artistic… Read More

London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane & Copeland & Day, April 1894 to April 1897. Thirteen volumes, all published. Numerous illustrations and covers by Aubrey Beardsley, William Rothenstein, Walter Sickert, Housman 8vo., original yellow publisher’s pictorial cloth embossed in black. A remarkably good set with only slight bumping to the headcaps and corners and occasional mild darkening. ||A complete set of the most famous periodical of the 1890s. It became infamous when it was rumoured that Oscar Wilde was reading it when he was arrested (he was in fact reading Pierre Louys’ Aphrodite). It began as an avant garde publication with new departures in literature and art especially with Beardsley’s graphic contributions. However it became more conservative and mainstream after Wilde’s arrest. It remained very popular and was widely owned and read with contributions by Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Yeats, Le Gallienne, Charles Conder, Baron Corvo, Kenneth Grahame, etal.| A complete set

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; John Lane The Bodley Head; The Bodley Head, 1894-1949. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 6.5". Various. A lovely set of all thirteen volumes of 'The Yellow Book' literary quarterly, published at the end of the nineteenth century, with numerous plates throughout each volume. Complete and highly sought after first edition thirteen volume set, containing second impressions without the adverts to the rear of text. This collection also includes one additional volume from 1949, containing selections from the 1894-97 volumes with the very rare dust wrapper for this.Illustrations include title-page engravings and numerous illustrated plates to each volume, illustrated by a range of artists.This is a lovely collection containing the entirety of 'The Yellow Book', the literary periodical that was published from 1895 to 1897. These issues contained a range of literary and artistic poetry, short, stories, and essays from very important writers of the day. These… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894-97. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6.5". Various. A complete collection of all thirteen volumes of the widely celebrated Victorian literary and artistic periodical 'The Yellow Book'. Each volume the first edition, first impression with book lists and/or publisher's announcements to rear, which did not appear in later impressions. Complete run with all thirteen volumes of The Yellow Book, a leading British literary quarterly magazine in the 1890s, running from 1894 to 1897, with notorious authors such as Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, and Henry James contributing some first publications. The magazine contained a variety of literary and artistic genres, and was often associated with the currents of aestheticism and decadence. Including poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. John Lane and Elkin Mathews, the founders of The Bodley Head, published this artistic and often controversial… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-1897.. FIRST EDITION. 13 volumes (complete, all published). 8vo. (21 x 16 cm). Original yellow cloth with decorations by Beardsley stamped in black on covers and spines, leaves largely unopened, bound without the advertisements sometimes found at the end of the volumes. Profusely illustrated throughout by Beardsley, Walter Crane, Laurence Housman and others. Edited by Henry Harland. Occasional minor spotting to contents, generally a particularly clean and handsome set. The Yellow Book was founded in 1894 by Beardsley and his friend Henry Harland, both keen on establishing an avant-garde organ that would capture the decadent and aesthetic principals of the fin-de-si�cle. The yellow cloth covers, embellished by Beardsley's striking flat-perspective designs, are a nod to the yellow covers of salacious French and European novels, like the one which Dorian Gray reads and by which he is corrupted. The literary contributors included Henry James, Max Beerbohm, George… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews and John Jane; Boston: Copeland & Day, later N.Y.: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1897. 13 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black, with designs by Aubrey Beardsley, Ethel Reed, and others; some soiling of bindings, light occasional foxing, but generally a very good, sound set throughout. Each volume with an attractive Chinese bookplate in seal script. A complete run of this famous literary periodical, edited by Henry Harland, with Beardsley serving as art editor until June, 1895. This set is the later issue without the publisher's advertisements at the back. Includes contributions by Henry James, Richard Le Gallienne, Max Beerbohm, Edmund Gosse, John Buchan, Richard Garnett, Kenneth Graham, William Watson, Arnold Bennett, Anatole France, Arthur Symons, Baron Corvo, H. G. Wells, Wiliam Butler Yeats, Stephen Phillips, and many others. Illustrations by Sir Frederic Leighton, Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, John Singer Sargent, James Guthrie, Joseph Pennell, D.… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. A complete set of 13 volumes. Square octavos. Later issue, without advertisements at the back. In the original yellow pictorial cloth stamped in black, with cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley (Vols. 1-4), Ethel Reed, and Mabel Syrett. One of the most important periodicals of the nineties, with contributions by Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, George Gissing, and others; and with numerous illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, William Rothenstein and several other important artists. The Yellow Book is also notable for the inclusion of work by women writers and illustrators, among them George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunn), Charlotte Mew, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Ada Leverson, Ethel Reed, Mabel Syrett, and Nellie Syrett. An attractive, very good set from the library of Richard R. Deupree (Chairman of the Board of Procter & Gamble), with his bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume.… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane [The Bodley Head], 1897. First Editions. Uniformly Bound Hardcovers. Very Good/Fine. John Singer Sargent, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, Walter Sickert, Philip Wilson Steer, et al.. Thirteen volumes. 8vo. Profusely illustrated with over 200 plates. Original black-stamped yellow cloth. Bound without advertisements. Spine of Vol. I a tad dulled, front cover a touch rubbed. Withal, original cloth, exceptionally bright, in VG-to-Fine condition. First editions of all thirteen volumes of Beardsley's celebrated art-nouveau quarterly with plates after works by Beardsley, Sargent, Sickert, Rothenstein and may others. With literary contributions from luminaries such as W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Henry James, Anatole France, Kenneth Grahame, et al.The renowned journal was conceived in 1894 by Beardsley and the American novelist Henry Harland, who explained: "In one of the densest and soupiest and yellowest of all London's infernalest fox, Beardsley and I… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-1897. Complete set of all thirteen volumes of one of the most important periodicals of the 1890s, with contributions by Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, and W. B. Yeats, among many others. First edition second issue, without book lists or publisher's announcements to rear. Octavo, thirteen volumes in the original publisher's yellow pictorial cloth stamped in black, cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley (Vols. 1-4), Ethel Reed, and Mabel Syrett, tissue-guarded illustrated title page to each volume, extensively illustrated with tissue-guarded plates by artists including Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Laurence Housman, Joseph Pennell, William Rothenstein, and Walter Sickert. In near fine condition. An exceptional set. The Yellow Book was a leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with aestheticism and decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays, book… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane (then) John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1894 13 volumes (1894-1897), complete. First editions, mixed issues. Volumes 3-12 are apparent first issues with rear ads; volumes 1, 2, and 13 are apparent second issues, without ads. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's yellow pictorial cloth with cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley and others stamped in black, top edges untrimmed. Some volumes bear an engraved bookplate signed in pencil by the designer. Some spines with light soiling, some covers lightly soiled. A few corners slightly curled. Overall, a very nice, complete set. Quite scarce as a complete set. This famous, epochal, and notorious periodical includes work by all the great figures of the 1890's including Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Henry James, Yeats, Gissing, Kenneth Grahame, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Baron Corvo, H. G. Wells, and many others. Beardsley's illustrations are well-represented. The Yellow Book is the most prominent expression of… Read More

London, Elkin Mathews & John Lane; John Lane The Bodley Head, 1894-97. . First edition; 13 vols (complete), small 4to; illustrated throughout, with tissue-guards, advertisements, occasional foxing, Dutch bookseller's discreet labels to front pastedowns, minor dampstaining to lower right corner of vol. IX; publisher's pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black, spines darkened, some soiling and rubbing to covers, extremities a little bumped, light spotting to edges, offsetting to endpapers, partly unopened, overall very good. A very good, complete run of the The Yellow Book, the quarterly that for many best enshrines the spirit of the Decadent movement and the 1890s. In April 1894 The Times described it as 'A combination of English rwodyism and French lubricity'. The Yellow Book was founded in 1894 by Beardsley and his friend Henry Harland, both keen on establishing an avant-garde organ that would capture the decadent & aesthetic gasp of the fin-de-siècle. Beardsley and the artist James McNeill… Read More

London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1897. Later Issues. Hardcover. Very Good+, bound in original pictorial boards. Toning to end papers. Smudging and a few bumps to boards. Texts are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with over 200 plates. 8vo, 8 1/4"h x 6 1/2"w. Complete, clean set of the celebrated art-nouveau quarterly magazine.

London: Mathews & Lane, 1897. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, illus.. Periodical. 8vo, yellow cloth, stamped in black. Illustrated. A complete run of the magazine, from April 1894 to April 1897. First 5 volumes have some illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. (He was fired after Vol. 5.) Vol. 1 stained on back cover, spines rippled on some volumes, o/w a VG tight set. Includes work by Beardsley, BEERBOHM, Max, BELL, R. Anning, GISSING, George, GOSSE, Edmund, GRAHAME, Kenneth, HARLAND, Henry, HOUSMAN, Laurence, JAMES, Henry, LE GALLIENNE, Richard, LEIGHTON, Sir Frederick, PENNELL, Joseph, ROBINSON, Charles, SICKERT, Walter, STRANG, William, SYMONS, Arthur, WELLS, H.G., YEATS, William Butler, Wells, Herbert , etc.

Thirteen volumes. Dulled spines, bumped corners and spines. Foxed/age toned endpapers. Interiors generally clean and bright, top edges dusty/dulled. Contributors include Max Beerbohm, Henry James, E Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, John Buchan, Ethel Reed, Ella d'Arcy, George Gissing, Edmund Gosse, Walter Sickert, Anatole France, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, Sir Frederick Leighton etc. With publishers' advertisements and Elkin Mathews and John Lane Belles Lettres catalogues at rear of each volume. Volume 1 April 1894 third edition, contemporary ink owners name and date and WH Smith impressed stamp on ffep. Tissue guards. Volume II July 1894 second edition, small damage to spine, binding a bit shaky, some loose folds, tissue guards, contemporary signature and address on contents page. Volume III October 1894 first edition, gutter starting to split, binding shaky, some folds coming loose, tissue guards, contemporary owners name and WH Smith impressed stamp x2 on ffep. Volume IV January 1895 first edition,… Read More

London, The Bodley Head, 1897. Very Good. 8° , gebundene Ausgabe. ausgesonderte Bibliotheksexemplare mit den zugehörigen Kennzeichnungen, Bibliotheksaufkleber auf Buchrücken, ansonsten in altersgemäß sehr gutem Zustand und lediglich etwas lager- und gebrauchsspurig, Ecken und Kapitale teilweise bestoßen, Kapitale teilweise mit kleineren Fehlstellen, Buchrücken qualitätsbedingt teilweise leicht brüchig, Seiten vollständig und teilweise unbeschnitten, Kopfschnitt nachgedunkelt, Buchrücken stärker gebrauchsspurig und dementsprechend nachgedunkelt und stark berieben. The Yellow Book war eine aufsehenerregende Kunst- und Kulturzeitschrift, welche von 1894 bis 1897 herausgegeben wurde und die kulturelle Welt Englands in den mittleren 90er Jahren des 19. Jhd. entscheidend mitprägte. Die behandelten Themen waren mannigfaltig und erregten die Gemüter nicht zuletzt wegen des Kunstredakteurs Aubrey Beardsley und dessen Hang zu erotischen Details. Obgleich Oscar Wilde nie selbst in The Yellow Book… Read More

London and Boston:: Elkin Mathews & John Land; Copeland & Day,, 1894-1897 and 1928.. First edition.. publisher's yellow cloth illustrated in black; plus Selection in dust jacket.. All but one volume of the Yellow Book with armorial bookplate on pastedown. Some occasional light foxing; light use and dust-soiling to the cloth and tanning to the spines. Ink ownership signature in the Selection volume; dust jacket chipped at the top of the spine removing title lettering; tanned spine with other chips and use. . 8vo,. Illustrated.. Additional postage applicable for this multiple-volume set.

Boston: Copeland and Day, 1894. Unbound. Very Good. Pictorial broadside. Approximately 12.5" x 20". Printed in black on yellow paper stock. On the left side is an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Modest 1" x 2" chip in lower left margin only, else very good or better. Matted. Contents list mentions art by Bearsdley, Beerbohm, Walter Sickert, and others. Author's include Kenneth Grahame, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Arthur Symons, and others.

Elkin MAtthews & John Lane: Copeland & Day, 1894-1897. hardback. good + condition in yellow cloth--most volumes are somewhat dirty with some darkening to the spine and occasional foxing, volume 6 has a faded spine.

London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1894-97.. Thirteen volumes, 8vo, volumes II and VII third edition, volume VI second edition, the others first editions. 220 plates with tissues, volume I with a small ink stain to the fore edge, a couple of hinges with light cracking. Original decorative yellow cloth, spines darkened, covers with some marking, particularly volume I. A complete run of this influential periodical, which started with Aubrey Beardsley as its art director and includes some of his best work. Most of the decade's finest illustrators also contributed, including Joseph Pennell, Walter Sickert, William Rothenstein, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm, D.Y. Cameron and Charles Robinson. There are nearly 300 articles, fictions and poems by writers including Henry James, Richard Le Gallienne, A.C. Benson, W.B. Yeats, Kenneth Grahame, E. Nesbit, Edmund Gosse, Baron Corvo, George Gissing and John Buchan among many others.

London : Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Type: Book Published April 1894. pp 272 + 18 + 14. 1st printing. Spine browned. Light foxing to end papers. Prior owner inscription to flyleaf. Binding grubby.