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London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland and Day. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial cloth. Cloth mildly soiled/rubbed, corners gently bumped, occasional minor foxing. All plates present. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 335 pages .

London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland and Day. Good with no dust jacket. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial cloth. Cloth grubby and worn, hinges starting, scattered foxing, spine break. All plates present. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360, 8,14,[1] pages .

London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland and Day. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial cloth. Cloth mildly soiled/rubbed, corners gently bumped, scattered foxing. All plates present. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 + ads pages .

London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland and Day. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial cloth. Cloth mildly soiled. Scattered foxing, corners bumped, PO blindstamp. All plates present. 285 pp plus "Frontispiece for Juvenal" by Beardsley (double page) ; 16, 15pp ads. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages .

London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland and Day. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial cloth. Cloth mildly soiled/rubbed, corners bumped. Endpages toned. All plates present; many pages unopened. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 + ads pages .

1894. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 8vo. - Second Edition - Decorated boards grubby and marked w/ spine heavily tanned and faded - Spine ends and corners bumped - Edges of text block toned and foxed - Endpapers badly foxed and tanned w/ ex-libris plate to front pastedown - Some scattered foxing throughout - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - 270/18/14 pages

London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland and Day. Good. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial cloth. Cloth grubby and worn, hinges cracked, corners bumped, spine break mid volume. All plates present. Minor thumbing, the scarce minor spot to pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272,18,14,[1] pages .

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Boston: Copeland & Day, April, 1894. First edition, small 4to, pp. [7], 8-272, 18 (ads), 14 (more ads), [2]; 15 plates; original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black; very good and sound. Includes contributions by Henry James, Richard Le Gallienne, Max Beerbohm, Edmund Gosse, and many others. Illustrations by Sir Frederic Leighton, Aubrey Beardsley, Joseph Pennell, Laurence Housman, and others.

London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1897. Later Issues. Hardcover. Very Good+, bound in original pictorial boards. Toning to end papers. Smudging and a few bumps to boards. Texts are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with over 200 plates. 8vo, 8 1/4"h x 6 1/2"w. Complete, clean set of the celebrated art-nouveau quarterly magazine.

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

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. A complete set of 13 volumes. Square octavos. Later issue, without advertisements at the back. In the original yellow pictorial cloth stamped in black, with cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley (Vols. 1-4), Ethel Reed, and Mabel Syrett. One of the most important periodicals of the nineties, with contributions by Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, George Gissing, and others; and with numerous illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, William Rothenstein and several other important artists. The Yellow Book is also notable for the inclusion of work by women writers and illustrators, among them George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunn), Charlotte Mew, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Ada Leverson, Ethel Reed, Mabel Syrett, and Nellie Syrett. An attractive, very good set from the library of Richard R. Deupree (Chairman of the Board of Procter & Gamble), with his bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume.… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews and John Jane; Boston: Copeland & Day, later N.Y.: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1897. 13 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black, with designs by Aubrey Beardsley, Ethel Reed, and others; some soiling of bindings, light occasional foxing, but generally a very good, sound set throughout. Each volume with an attractive Chinese bookplate in seal script. A complete run of this famous literary periodical, edited by Henry Harland, with Beardsley serving as art editor until June, 1895. This set is the later issue without the publisher's advertisements at the back. Includes contributions by Henry James, Richard Le Gallienne, Max Beerbohm, Edmund Gosse, John Buchan, Richard Garnett, Kenneth Graham, William Watson, Arnold Bennett, Anatole France, Arthur Symons, Baron Corvo, H. G. Wells, Wiliam Butler Yeats, Stephen Phillips, and many others. Illustrations by Sir Frederic Leighton, Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, John Singer Sargent, James Guthrie, Joseph Pennell, D.… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; John Lane The Bodley Head; The Bodley Head, 1894-1949. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 6.5". Various. A lovely set of all thirteen volumes of 'The Yellow Book' literary quarterly, published at the end of the nineteenth century, with numerous plates throughout each volume. Complete and highly sought after first edition thirteen volume set, containing second impressions without the adverts to the rear of text. This collection also includes one additional volume from 1949, containing selections from the 1894-97 volumes with the very rare dust wrapper for this.Illustrations include title-page engravings and numerous illustrated plates to each volume, illustrated by a range of artists.This is a lovely collection containing the entirety of 'The Yellow Book', the literary periodical that was published from 1895 to 1897. These issues contained a range of literary and artistic poetry, short, stories, and essays from very important writers of the day. These… Read More