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Print this item?Letters From Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers. Edited kwith Introduction and Notes by R. A. Walker.
Beardsley, Aubrey. R. A. Walker ed.
London, : 1937, The First Edition Club.
First Edition. xvi, rest unpaginated, 188 letters. HC. 8vo.
Illustrations: Illustrations.
[Biography - Letters]
[Art - Art Nouveau]
[Aubrey Beardsley]
24th publication of the First Edition Club; printed by the Chiswick Press in Monotype Bodoni on Arnold Foster's Indian Toned Laid Hand Made Paper. Binding by Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co. 'The design used for the title page reproduces a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley never before published. The portraits of A. B. and Leonard Smithers are also published for the first time. Facsimile of 1 letter, Index. Black cloth over board with gilt spine titling. Gilt decor on front and back cover with horizontal and vertical bars crossing. Artistic exlibris on front paste-down.
A hint of foxing on endpapers. Front cover has a few very faint spots. Very good + copy of a scarce title.
ID: 990912
