By Various
London   Elkin Mathews and John Lane
8" by 6.5" 272, [18], [14], [1]; 360; 279; 335, [1], [16]pp.
Four volumes of the iconic Victorian literary and artistic magazine 'The Yellow Book.'
By Various

1894-5 The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly Vol. I-III and VI

London   Elkin Mathews and John Lane
8" by 6.5" 272, [18], [14], [1]; 360; 279; 335, [1], [16]pp.
Four volumes of the iconic Victorian literary and artistic magazine 'The Yellow Book.'
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First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Four 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. Comprising vols. I-III and VI.

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 periodical. 

The iconic yellow cover is credited to Aubrey Beardsley, its first art editor, an allusion to illicit French fiction of the period, although Oscar Wilde notoriously dismissed it as 'not yellow at all.' Beardsley obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, and Philip Wilson Steer among other.

Volume I with fifteen illustrations. Collated, complete. First impression with advertisements and book lists to rear. 

Volume II with twenty-two illustrations. Collated, complete. Early impression without advertisements and book lists to rear. With agents for the colonies listed Robt. A. Thompson & Co. to title page.

Volume III with fifteen illustrations. Collated, complete. Early impression without advertisements and book lists to rear. With agents for the colonies listed Robt. A. Thompson & Co. to title page.

Volume VI with sixteen illustrations. Collated, complete. First impression with book lists to rear.

Condition

In the original publisher's uniform decorative full cloth binding. Externally generally smart with some shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, darkened to back strip and boards slightly marked, particularly to vol. I. Rear board vol. I creased. Front hinges slightly strained. Previous owner's gift inscription to front free endpaper vol. I dated '95. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean.

Very Good

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