The Yellow Book
Aubrey Beardsley
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Thirteen volumes. First editions, later issue (without ads at back). 21 x 17 cm, original yellow cloth printed in black. London, Elkin Mathews and John Lane. 1894-1897
Very good to excellent copies, some wear to edges, spine of volume VI faded, occasional neat stamps from The Meyer Sassoon Library, Paris.
The Yellow Book was one of the most important literary reviews of the 1890s. Published quarterly between 1894 and 1897, its yellow covers, a nod to the cheap paperbacks of the era and particularly to the "yellow book" (thought by critics to be Huysmans' A Rebours) that corrupted Wilde's Dorian Gray, gave it a whiff of obscenity. It maintained something of this reputation principally because of the wonderfully provocative artwork of Aubrey Beardsley. Its contributing authors were impressive (Henry James, William Butler Yeats, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Charlotte Mew and Max Beerbohm all appeared between its covers) but rarely scandalous.
