By Various
London   Elkin Mathews and John Lane
8" by 6.5" 272pp
Bright first volume of the widely celebrated Victorian literary and artistic periodical 'The Yellow Book'.
By Various

1894 The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly

London   Elkin Mathews and John Lane
8" by 6.5" 272pp
Bright first volume of the widely celebrated Victorian literary and artistic periodical 'The Yellow Book'.
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: 0.75kgs / : 850A42

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Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The second impression of the first 'The Yellow Book' quarterly volume appeared in April 1894, not featuring the advertisements and publisher's book lists that appeared in the first impression. A bright example of this famous work. 

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. 

This first volume features Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Edmund Gosse, Arthur Waugh, and Ella D'Arcy among others.

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.

Illustrated with fifteen illustrations. Collated, complete.

Condition

In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip only lightly darkened. Minor closed tear to margin p. 201-2. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor handling mark to very odd leaf, pages otherwise bright and clean throughout. Occasional leaf unopened.

Very Good Indeed

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