A[lbert] E[ugene]. List of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley.

by GALLATIN

£600 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Presented by Gallatin GALLATIN, A[lbert] E[ugene]. List of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. New York: M.F. Mansfield A. Wessels . 1900. 8vo. Publisher’s drab boards, printed label to upper board; pp. 24, [2 (colophon, blank)]; splitting to spine neatly repaired, boards slightly sunned with some darkening to lower board at head; front free endpaper inscribed ‘For Elbert Hubbard, with regards of A.E. Gallatin’ in ink, front pastedown inscribed by Gallatin in pencil ( see below ), pencil annotations to p. 13. First edition, one of 100 copies, of Gallatin’s (1881–1952) list intended to supplement Aymer Vallance’s 1897 iconography of Beardsley’s work, ‘and contains no item mentioned by [Vallance]’ (p. 2), this copy presented to the anarchist and socialist publisher Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915). In 1895 Hubbard established the utopian Arts and Crafts community of Roycroft in East Aurora, New York, where he set up the Roycroft Press, inspired by William Morris’s Kelmscott Press. ‘Within five years the little printing shop grew into the multibuilding Roycroft campus, and the Roycroft enterprise became the largest and most complex exponent of the American arts and crafts movement. It had shops for printing and binding and for furniture, metal, and leather work; it also established training schools for the local youth in drawing, watercolor, and bookbinding […] Although he constantly proclaimed the arts and crafts philosophy of hand crafting in his promotional advertising for the books prod

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