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Sir Max (henry Maximilian) Beerbohm

Male : Artist, Book illustrator, Critic and writer. In 1910 married Florence Kahn, an American actress. They lived in Rapallo on the Italian Riviera. In 1956 he married Elisabeth Jungmann
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Kensington, London

Date of Birth : 1872 Date of Death : 1956 Age : 84

Other Work : 1898 became Dramatic Critic of the Saturday Review

Education : Charterhouse & Merton College, Oxford
[His first work appeared in the Strand Magazine in 1892]

Books he wrote and illustrated
1896-1905
Caricatures of Five and Twenty Gentlemen
(1896 Smithers) - 500
100 Caricatures
(1901 Carfax, London)
Cartoons
(1901 Stephen Swift, London)
The Poet's Corner
(1904 Heinemann)
Caricatures by Max
(1904)

1906-1925
A Book of Caricatures
(1907)
Cartoons : The Second Childhood of John Bull
(nd.1911 Stephen Swift, London)
Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story
(1911 Heinemann)
[His only completed novel]
A Christmas Garland
(1912 Heinemann)
Fifty Caricatures
(1913 Heinemann) (1913 Dutton)
Seven Men & Two Others
(1919 Heinemann) (1920 Knopf) - ss
A Survey
(1921 Heinemann) (1921 Doubleday, Page NY)
Rosetti and His Circle
(1922 Heinemann) - 380 signed
Things New and Old
(1923 Heinemann) - 380 signed
A Peep into the Past
(1923 PP in NY) - 300
Observations : 52 Caricatures
(1925 Heinemann)

AFTER 1926
Leaves from the Garland
(1926 PP in NY) - Ltd Ed 72
The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill
(1928 Heinemann)
Heroes & Heroines of Bitter Sweet
(1931 Leadlay) - 100
The Fetish of Speed
(1936 London)
(Intro) Catalogue of the Philip Guedalla Collection of Caricatures by Beerbohm
(1945 Brown & Phillips)
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet
(1951)
Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of Drawings by Sir Max Beerbohm
(1957 Leicester Galleries, London)
Zuleika Dobson
(1960 Ltd Editions Club, NY) - 1500 signed by George Him
Zuleika Dobson
(1975 Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford) - 750 signed by Osbert Lanccaster

OTHERS
The Works
(1896 Scribner, NY) (1896 John Lane)
The Happy Hypocrite
(1897 JL, Bodley Head)
Offered in 1999 for £295
(1915 Bodley Head - 50. George Sheringham )
(1948 PP for Allen & Richard Lane) - 500
More
(1899 JL, Bodley Head)
And Even Now
(1920 Heinemann)
The Works
(1922-4 Heinemann) - 10 vols. 780 signed copies
Offered in 1999 for £995
The Tragedy of Mr Punch : A Fantastic Play by Russell Thorndike & Reginald Arkell
(1923 Duckworth) - intro essay by Beerbohm
Around Theatres
(1924 Heinemann) - 2 vols. 780
Lytton Strachey : The Rede Lecture, 1943 Cambridge
(1943 CUP)
The Mote in the Middle Distance : A Parody of Henry James
(1946 Hart Press, Berkeley) - Lloyd Hoff
Mainly on the Air : Broadcast Talks & Essays
(1946 Heinemann) (1947 Knopf)
(In) G.B.S. 90 : Aspects of Bernard Shaw's Life and Work (1946 Hutchinson) - et al
Sherlockiana : A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes
(1948 Edwin B Hill, Arizona) - 36 copies
Letters to Reggie Turner
(1964 Hart-Davis)
Reading Henry James
(1975 Univ of Minnesota Press)
- includes 12 caricatures by Max Beerbohm

PERIODICALS
The Academy, The Butterfly, The Bystander, Cassell's Magazine, Daily Mail,
Eureka, The Idler, John Bull, The Page, The Pall Mall Budget, The Pall Mall Magazine,
Parade, Pearon's Magazine, Pick-Me-Up, Reveille, The Savoy, The Sketch,
The Spectator, The Strand Magazine, The Tatler, The Unicorn, Vanity Fair, The Yellow Book

READING
B Lynch : Max Beerbohm in Perspective
(1921 Heinemann)
A E Gallatin : Sir Max Beerbohm
(1944 Harvard Univ Press)
A E Gallantin & L M Oliver : A Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm
(1952 Hart-Davis) (1952 Harvard UP)
(Intro) Osbert Lancaster : Max's 'Nineties (1958 Hart-Davis)
S N Behrman : Conversations with Max
(1960 HH)
David Cecil : Max - A Biography
(1964 Constable 50/-)
Rupert Hart-Davis : A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm
(1972 Macmillan)
(1977 Harvard UP)
N John Hall : Max Beerbohm - A Kind of Life
(2002 Yale UP £16.99)

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