Aubrey Beardsley prospectus for The Savoy and advertisements, 1895-1897.

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Aubrey Beardsley prospectus for The Savoy and advertisements, 1895-1897.

The collection consists of four items: prospectus for number 1 of The Savoy, Nov. 1895, describing the magazine and listing contents of issue 1, with a cover drawing by Beardsley; advertisement for Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock, illustrated by Beardsley, Jan. 1896; advertisement for Beardsley's The Story of Venus and Tannhàˆuser, 1897; advertisement detached from Copeland and Day catalog for Oscar Wilde's Salome, published for the first time with illustrations by Beardsley, including a sample illustration.

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Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898

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Illustrator and art editor of The Yellow Book. From the description of Collection, 1893-1959, (bulk 1893-98 and 1943-59). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122617113 Aubrey Beardsley was an innovative and influential English illustrator and author who helped inspire the Art Nouveau movement. He displayed remarkable talent for drawing and music as a child; later, while working as a clerk, he sold a short story,...