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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

Male : Illustrator & Writer. Art Editor of the Yellow Book for four issues. Then became Art editor of The Savoy (it contained his only published written work, three short poems and a short, highly erotic prose version of the Tannhauser story). Became a Catholic in1897. Died of TB
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Brighton, Sussex

Date of Birth : 1872 Date of Death : 1898 Age : 26

Other Work : Clerk at the Guardian Life & Fire Assurance Co

Education : Brighton GS
MAJOR WORKS
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
1893-4 Dent issued in 12 monthly parts. 1800, 1500 in ordinary issue and 300 in Special Issue
1893-4 Dent - 2 vols
1893-4 Dent Special Issue in 12 parts. 300 copies
1893-4 Dent Special Issue in 3 vols
Facsimile Edition
(1985 Boydell, Woodbridge, Suffolk)
Second Edition
(1909 Dent) - 1500 of 500 for USA (Facsimile Second Edition 1990 Dorset Press, US)
Third Edition
(1927 Dent) (Facsimile Edition, Harrison House US 1985)
Fourth Edition
(1972 Dent)
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Bon Mots of Sydney Smith & R Brinsley Sheridan
(1893 Dent) + Large Paper of 100 Numbered
Bon Mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold
(1893 Dent) + Large Paper of 100 Numbered
Bon Mots of Samuel Foot & Theodore Hook
(1894 Dent) + Large Paper of 100 Numbered
Salome by Oscar Wilde
(1894 Lane & Mathews) - 755 + 125 copiesd on Japan Vellum
(1904 Melmoth & Co) - 250 Numbered & 50 Numbered
Lysistrata of Aristophanes
(1896 Smithers, PP) - 100
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
(1896 Smithers, PP) - 1000 + 25 copies on Japan Vellum
A Book of Fifty Drawings
(1897 Smithers) - 500
Offered in 1995 for £245
+ 50 copies on Japan Vellum
The Pierrot of the Minute by Ernest Dowson
(1897 Smithers) - 300 copies on Handmade Paper
+ 30 copies on Japan Vellum
(1923 Grolier Club US) - 300 copies on Dutch antique paper
A Second Book of Fifty Drawings
(1898 Smithers)
Volpone by Ben Jonson
(1898 Smithers) - 1000 + 100 Numbered on Japan Vellum
Six Drawings Illustrating Theophile Gautier's Romance Mademoiselle de Maupin
(1898 Smithers) - 50 Numbered
Offered in 1991 for £750
(1879 Houlston, London. 2nd Ed)
The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley
(1899 Bodley Head) + 100
(1912 Bodley Head) - reissue of above
The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley
(1901 Bodley Head) + 100
(1912 Bodley Head) - reissue of above
Under the Hill & Other Essays in Prose and Verse
(1904 John Lane)
Offered in 1995 for £245
+ 50 copies on Japan Vellum
(1959 Olympia Press, Paris)
The Story of Venus & Tannhauser
(1907 for PP circulation) - 300
The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley
(1920 Bodley Head)
The Uncollected Works of Aubrey Beardsley
(1925 Bodley Head) + 100 copies
(1925 Dodd Mead, NY)
Morte D'Arthur Portfolio
(1927 Dent)
Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers
(Ed R A Walker)
(1937 First Editions Club, London)
The Best of Beardsley
(1948 Bodley Head) (1987 Spring Books)
Under the Hill
(completed by John Glassco) (1959 Olympia Press, Paris) - 3000
The Collected Drawings
(Ed by Bruce S Harris) (1967 Bounty Books, NY)
The Letters
(1971 Cassell)

MAGAZINES
The Yellow Book
(Vols 1-4) (John Lane April 1894-Jan 1895)
The Savoy
(1896 Smithers)

SOME MINOR WORKS
with Beardsley Title pages, cover designs and/or illustrations
1893
Evelina by Frances Burney
(1893 Dent)
Pastor Song by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
(1893 Longman)
The Wonderful History of Virgilus the Sorceror of Rome
(1893 Nutt)

1894
The Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame
(1894 Mathews & Lane) - 615
Plays by John Davidson
(1894 Mathews & Lane)
The Land of Heart's Desire by W B Yeats
(1894 Unwin) - 500
Baron Verdigris by Jocelyn Quilp
(1894 Henry)
Lucian's True History by Lucian
(1894 Lawrence & Bullen) - 251 Numbered copies
+ 54 Numbered copies with an extra illustration

1895
A London Garland
(1895 Macmillan)
Tales of Mystery and Wonder by Edgar Allan Poe
(1895 Stone & Kimball US)
Earl Lavender by John Davidson
(1895 Ward & Downey)
Young Ofeg's Ditties by Ola Hansson
(1895 John Lane)
Sappho by H T Wharton
(1895 John Lane)
An Evil Motherhood by Walt Ruding
(1895 Elkin Mathews)

1896
The Barbarous Britishers by H D Traill
(1896 John Lane)
A Book of Bargains by V O Sullivan
(1896 Smithers)
Verses by Ernest Dowson
(1896 Smithers) - 300 + 30 copies on Japan Vellum
Pierrot by Henry de Vere Stacpoole
(1896 John Lane)
My Little Lady Anne by Mrs Egerton Castle
(1896 John Lane)
Simplicity by A T G Price
(1896 John Lane)
My Brother by Vincent Brown
(1896 John Lane)
The Life and Times of Madame Du Barry
(1897 Smithers)

1897
La Comedie Humaine, Scenes of Parisian Life by Honore de Balzac
(1897 Smithers) - 11 vols. 250 sets
+ 50 sets on Japan Vellum
La Comedie Humaine, Scenes of Private Life by Honore de Balzac
(1897 Smithers) - 11 vols
The Souvenirs of Leonard by Jean Leonard
(1897 Smithers) - 2 vols. 250 Numbered sets
A History of Dancing by Gaston Vuillier
(1898 heinemann) - 2 vols
The House of Sin by V O Sullivan
(1897 Smithers)

1899
Decorations in Verse and Prose
(1899 Smithers)

READING
Arthur Symons : Aubrey Beardsley
(1898 Unicorn Press) (1905 Dent)
A E Gallatin : List of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley
(1900 Mansfield & Wessels, NY) - 100
A E Gallatin : Aubrey Beardsley as a Designer of Book-Plates
(1902 Elkin Mathews) - 85
A E Gallatin : Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings : A Catalogue and List of Criticisms
(1903 Elkin Mathews 20/-) - 250 numbered
(Ed) John Gray : The Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley (1904 Longmans)
Robert Ross : Aubrey Beardsley
(1909 Lane)
O Burdett : The Beardsley Period
(1925 Bodley Head)
Haldane Macfall : Aubrey Beardsley the Clown, the Harlequin, the Pierrot of His Age
(1927 Simon & Schuster)
Haldane Macfall : Aubrey Beardsley - The Man & His Work
(1928 Bodley Head)
A E Gallatin : Aubrey Beardsley : Catalogue of Drawings & Bibliography
(1945 Grolier Club, NY) - 300
R A Walker : The Best of Beardsley
(1948 Bodley Head)
(Ed) R A Walker : A Beardsley Miscellany (1949 London)
The Yellow Book : A Selection
(1949 Bodley Head)
(Intro) Kenelm Foss : Beardsley - 50 Best Drawings (1955 Unciorn Press, London)
Beardsley : A Catalogue of an Exhibition
(1966 V & A Museum)
B Reade : Beardsley
(1967 London)
D Stanford : Aubrey Beardsley's Erotic Universe
(1967 NEL)
Stanley Weintraub : Aubrey Beardsley
(1967 W H Allen) (1976 Braziller NY)
Brigid Brophy : Beardsley and His World
(1976 Thames & Hudson)
John Gray : Aubrey Beardsley - An Obituary Memoir
(1980 PP in Edinburgh) - Ltd Ed 95
Chris Snodgrass : Aubrey Beardsley - Dandy of the Grotesque
(1996 OUP £35)
Stephen Calloway : Aubrey Beardsley
(1998 V & A £25)
Matthew Sturgus : Aubrey Beardsley
(1998 Harper Collins £19.99)

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