Three Volumes Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley
- Malory’s Morte D’Arthur. New York: Dutton, 1927, limited to 1600 copies, publisher’s gilt cloth, t.e.g.;
- Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley„ New York, 1920, numbered 233 of 500 and signed by the publisher, ornately stamped gilt publisher’s cloth;
- A Second Book of Fifty Drawings, London, 1899, limited to 1,000 copies, red publisher’s cloth, pictorial gilt stamped, spine worn and faded, all titles illustrated throughout.

Salome. A Tragedy in One Act
Oscar Wilder. Illust. Aubrey Beardsley. John Lane, 1907.

16 plates by Aubrey Beardsley, publisher’s decorative cloth gilt.

The  Early  Work  of  Aubrey  Beardsley.  London  &  New  York:  John  Lane  The  Bodley  Head,  1899  [with:]  The  Later  Work  of  Aubrey  Beardsley.  London  &  New  York:  John  Lane  The  Bodley  Head,  1901  [with:]  The  Uncollected  Works  of  Aubrey  Beardsley.  London:  John  Lane  The  Bodley  Head,  1925

3  volumes,  4to  (11  1/4  x  8  5/8  in.;  285  x  220  mm).  Each  volume  with  half-title  and  frontispiece,  157,  173  and  162  plates  plus  6  extra  in  the  third  volume  for  this  edition  only;  frontispieces  detached  in  first  two  vols,  title  detached  in  second.  Publisher’s  cream  cloth  with  title  stamped  on  upper  covers  within  an  architectural  frame  in  green  or  gold;  spines  and  edges  somewhat  soiled.

Pierrot! A Story
by Stacpoole, Henry de Vere. John Lane, London, 1896.
Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.

Original ivory-coloured pictorial cloth depicting a Pierrot clown selecting books in a library in red; red spine titles; red pictorial device to rear. Decorative endpapers; 163pp + 16pp rear catalogue (most of catalogue is uncut and unopened), all edges untrimmed.

A scarce novel of the supernatural involving a blurring of sexual boundaries. John Lane obviously liked this book immensely because it launched his ‘Pierrot Library’ series which also included Stacpoole’s other novel of weird decadent supernaturalism, ‘Death, The Knight & The Lady’. The author was a gifted novelist and although his later works sold in significantly greater numbers, his two early novels are for me wonderful examples of beguiling ‘fin-de-siecle’ supernaturalism.

The Land of Heart’s Desire
William Butler Yeats. T.Fisher Unwin, 1894.

First edition, title illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, advertisement leaf at end, printed wrappers with repeat of title illustration on upper cover, ink ownership inscription on upper cover, covers very slightly foxed, spine a little chipped, [Wade 10], 8vo,

Smithers (Leonard) Catalogue of Rare Books

Numbers 1-14, plates, some folding, original pictorial or printed wrappers, including 5 with cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley, numbers 2 and 5 with a vertical fold, a few spots, but generally in good clean condition, number 2 with a very short tear at head of upper and lowerr cover, 1895-1898; A group of 4 prospectuses for works published by Smithers; includes Aubrey Beardsley’s Mademoiselle de Maupin; Vincent O’Sullivan’s A Book of Bargins, 1896 (with a frontispiece by Beardsley); Arthur Symons’ London Nights, 1895 and Stendhal’s La Chatreuse de Parme, 1896, some light browning, but generally in good clean condition, all housed in a moden cloth drop-back box, 8vo (18)