May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BEARDSLEY, AUBREY.) Symons, Arthur; editor. The Savoy. 8 volumes in 3 (complete). Illustrated mainly by Beardsley, and by other contemporary artists such as Whistler, Beerbohm, Shannon, Pennell, and others. Literary contributions by Shaw, Gosse, Dowson, Moore, Verlaine, and others. 4to, publisher's gilt-pictorial cobalt blue cloth, spines dulled and rubbed with some loss along ends and tips, a few other light marks and blisters, but overall still very attractive; scattered usual foxing; Beardsley Christmas card design laid into Volume 2, clean vertical split along left side of image; advertisement (for final December issue) in Number 7 bound in; bookplates. first collected edition. London: Smithers, 1896