Buy this book on-line FRANCIS ADAMS. Aubrey Beardsley : A Child of the Age. A novelRoberts Bros., Boston and John Lane, London, 'The Keynote Series',, 1894
The American issue of the first edition, printed by John Wilson & Sons at the University Press, Cambridge MA, and with the Roberts Bros. imprint foremost on the title page and advertisement leaves, and gold-stamped to the base of the backstrip. 8vo. 282pp + [vi] publisher's advertisements. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with a black-stamped design by Aubrey Beardsley to the upper board (repeated on the title page) and a small motif to the rear board. With an unprinted tissue title page protector and patterned endpapers. Top- and fore edge very lightly spotted, and with a little bruising to the backstrip ends. A very good copy of the author's posthumously published final novel, a reworking of his earlier autobiographical novel 'Leicester: An Autobiography' (1885). No dust wrapper called-for. Number four of The Keynote Series, for which Aubrey Beardsley designed handsome cloth and title page decorations unique to each volume (in total Beardsley produced designs for 22 of the 36 volumes, before being fired by the publisher following the Oscar Wilde trail; the artwork for the remaining volumes was created by Patten Wilson).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of FRANCIS ADAMS. Aubrey Beardsley : A Child of the Age. A novel. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, libri antichi, fine bindings, incunabula and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |