The Yellow Book (Volume IV) Jan 1895 Illustrated Quarterly : Aubrey Beardsley

The Yellow Book : An Illustrated Quarterly : Volume IV, January 1895.

London; John Lane The Bodley Head, 1895. Hardback, large 8vo, decorative cloth binding, 285 pages, illustrated.

Includes authors such as Kenneth Grahame, E. Nesbit, Leila MacDonald, James Ashcroft Noble, Richard Garnett, etc

With illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Patten Wilson, Walter Sickert, H. J. Draper among others

CONDITION
A very good copy. The cloth binding is good with light signs of age. Endpapers good. All contents present and pages clean throughout and free from foxing, stains, etc. Overall a good copy.

The Yellow Book was a leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with aestheticism and decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. Aubrey Beardsley was its first art editor, and he has been credited with the idea of the yellow cover, with its association with illicit French fiction of the period. He obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert, and Philip Wilson Steer. The literary content was no less distinguished; authors who contributed were: Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, "Baron Corvo", Ernest Dowson, George Gissing, Sir Edmund Gosse, Henry James, Richard Le Gallienne, Charlotte Mew, Arthur Symons, Arthur Waugh, H. G. Wells, William Butler Yeats and Frank Swettenham.