Robert; Aymer VALLANCE. Aubrey Beardsley … with Sixteen Full-Page Illustrations and a Revised Iconography.

by ROSS

£475 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Annotated Inscribed by Beardsley’s Patron ROSS, Robert; Aymer VALLANCE. Aubrey Beardsley … with Sixteen Full-Page Illustrations and a Revised Iconography. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head and New York: John Lane Company. 1909 (but November 1908). 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, masked Pierrot by Beardsley gilt to upper board, top-edge gilt; pp. 112, [12 (advertisements)]; 16 plates by Beardsley including frontispiece; title-page by Beardsley adapted from Keynotes, advertisements printed in red and black; wanting the uncommon dust-jacket, spine sunned, corners bumped; light waterstaining to p. 50 and facing plate, else internally very good; gift inscription to front free endpaper ‘from Herbert Jerome Pollard’, dated December 1908 ( see below ). First edition thus of Ross’s biography of Beardsley, with a revised version of Vallance’s iconography of Beardsley’s works, this copy inscribed to an unknown recipient by Hubert ‘Jerome’ Pollitt (1872–1942), Beardsley’s patron and owner of most of the Lysistrata drawings. Ross’s text had initially appeared as a eulogy to Beardsley, published in the first edition of Beardsley’s last major project, Volpone ; Beardsley had died before completing the illustrations. Vallance’s iconography is a revised version of that which appeared in A Book of Fifty Drawings . Provenance : gift inscription from Herbert Charles ‘Jerome’ Pollitt (1871–1942), Beardsley’s major patron, for whom Beardsley adapted his own boo

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