The Savoy.

£4,300 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Within three months of the shake-up of The Yellow Book that had cost Beardsley his job, Smithers had launched its rival. It was both stylish and dangerous, named after the Savoy Hotel, near where Smithers’ offices had been, and which had been a favourite venue for some of Wilde’s liaisons, and defiantly intended to “pi

• Year: 1896

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