BEARDSLEY, AUBREY. 1872-1898.

The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston: Elkin Matthews and John Lane; Copeland and Day, 1894-1897.

The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston: Elkin Matthews and John Lane; Copeland and Day, 1894-1897.
13 volumes. 8vo. Numerous illustrations by Beardsley, Housman, Conder, Sickert, Beerbohm, Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, and others. Publisher's yellow pictorial cloth, decorated in black. Soiling to covers, minor browning, bookplates to front paste-downs with ownership name erased.

COMPLETE RUN OF FIRST EDITIONS, comprising 13 volumes. Co-edited by Aubrey Beardsley and Henry Harland, it was published simultaneously in London by Elkin Matthews and John Lane, (and after the second volume by John Lane alone) and Copeland and Day in Boston. In addition to the artworks reproduced, mostly in black and white, there were stories by Max Beerbohm, Henry James, H. G. Wells, William Butler Yeats and others. It was particularly notable for its inclusion of numerous women writers, including Ella D'Arcy, Charlotte Mew, Ada Leverson and others.