BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 341•
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Salome. A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French... Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, ONE OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, Elkin Matthews, 1894
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WILDE (OSCAR)
Salome. A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French... Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, ONE OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, frontispiece, pictorial title-page and list of illustrations, 9 illustrations, tailpiece and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, 16pp. advertisements (January 1894) at end, tissue guard between frontispiece and title, publisher's green silked boards, gilt decoration on sides, some fading [Mason 351; Ray 315], small 4to, Elkin Matthews, 1894
Footnotes
LIMITED TO 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES. Beardsley's illustrations to Salomé "made him notorious, and it remains the book of which most people think when his name is mentioned" (Ray), their graphic elegance and threatening sexuality making an immediate succès de scandale. See illustration overleaf.