The Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly V9: April, 1896 (1896) by Editor-Henry Harland - 2007-11-10

London, Elkin Mathews & John Lane; John Lane The Bodley Head, 1894-97. . First edition; 13 vols (complete), small 4to; illustrated throughout, with tissue-guards, advertisements, occasional foxing, Dutch bookseller's discreet labels to front pastedowns, minor dampstaining to lower right corner of vol. IX; publisher's pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black, spines darkened, some soiling and rubbing to covers, extremities a little bumped, light spotting to edges, offsetting to endpapers, partly unopened, overall very good. A very good, complete run of the The Yellow Book, the quarterly that for many best enshrines the spirit of the Decadent movement and the 1890s. In April 1894 The Times described it as 'A combination of English rwodyism and French lubricity'. The Yellow Book was founded in 1894 by Beardsley and his friend Henry Harland, both keen on establishing an avant-garde organ that would capture the decadent & aesthetic gasp of the fin-de-siècle. Beardsley and the artist James McNeill… Read More