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Title
The Yellow Book.
An Illustrated Quarterly.
Volumes I-XIII.
[First Edition Later Issue – In the Publisher’s Cloth – 13 Volumes Complete]
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Author
Aubrey BEARDSLEY, et al
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Year of Publication
1894 to 1897
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Publisher
London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane & Copeland & Day
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For
full description see below - after all photographs
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Description:
London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane & Copeland & Day, 1894-1897, First Edition, Later Issue, without the adverts at the rear.
Thirteen volumes bound in the publisher’s original pictorial cloth binding. Bindings with general wear and some darkening to the yellow cloth.
YELLOW BOOK, An Illustrated Quarterly, thirteen volumes, complete set. [authors and illustrators include W.B.Yeats, Richard Le Gallienne, Arthur Symons, Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, H.G. Wells, etc,etc,].
Volume I April 1894 to Volume XIII April 1897.
First edition, later issue. The Yellow Book was a British literary periodical released quarterly between 1894 and 1897. It was a leading journal of the decade, with writers such as Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, Sir Edmund Gosse and Henry James contributing. The periodical was notable for publishing many female authors and illustrators within, including Ella D'Arcy, George Egerton, Ada Leverson and Ethel Reed.
John Lane and Elkin Mathews, the founders of The Bodley Head, published this artistic and often controversial periodical. It differed from other contemporary periodicals by having no advertisements bar publishers' lists, and it was published clothbound.
The Yellow Book became notorious when it was rumoured that Oscar Wilde, who never published within it, but knew many people who had, was carrying a copy on his arrest at the Cadogan Hotel in 1895, although the veracity of this rumour has never been confirmed.
Aubrey Beardsley was the original art editor of the work (1872-1898); he was an English illustrator who contributed to the development of the Art Nouveau style, known for his grotesque, decadent and erotic depictions inspired by Japanese woodcuts. Other illustrators within include Walter Sickert, Charles Conder and John Singer Sargent.
Complete with all the illustrations called for in the contents, pagination includes the illustration. Some foxing.
With 18 illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley to Volumes I, II, III and IV.
Provenance – bookplate for Edmund Wilkes to the front paste down.
Approximately 8 ¼ inches tall.
Condition Report
Externally
- Spine – good condition – black titles to the yellow cloth, some fading to the black text, some wrinkling to the cloth – see photos.
- Joints – good condition – rubbed and worn.
- Corners – good condition – bumped and worn.
- Boards – good condition – yellow cloth with black pictorial images by various artists.
- Page edges – good condition – all hand cut or uncut.
- See above and photos.
Internally
- Hinges – good condition – sound, some volumes strained to the gutter within the volume.
- Paste downs – good condition – tanned, bookplate.
- End papers – good condition – tanned.
- Title – good condition – tanned, some foxing.
- Pages – good condition – tanned, foxing to some volumes, some tissue guards missing.
- Binding – good condition – attractive.
- See photos.
Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1894-97
Binding: Hardback
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