Aubrey Beardsley | The Yellow Book, 1894-1897, 13 volumes, original cloth

Aubrey Beardsley

The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston (vols I–X) and London and New York (XI–XIII), 1894–1897

13 volumes, 4to, half-titles to volumes II–XIII, title-pages with vignettes after Beardsley and others, plates after Beardsley, Beerbohm, and others, original pictorial yellow cloth, leaves uncut, some spotting, extremities slightly bumped

A COMPLETE SET OF THE DEFINITIVE WORK OF FIN-DE-SIECLE ART AND LITERATURE, whose first art director was Aubrey Beardsley, until April 1895. Although the avant-garde journal had not published anything by Oscar Wilde, the publication's reputation was tarnished by his trial, not only because Beardsley had illustrated several of Wilde's books, but also because it was alleged that Wilde had a copy of The Yellow Book on him at the time of his arrest. Beardsley was dismissed from the publication as a result.