Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 148

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
(LITERARY PERIODICAL.) 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 along ends and tips, but overall still very attractive; scattered usual foxing; Olive Percival bookplate to each. first collected edition of this short-lived but important literary journal. Includes a separate copy of Issue No. 1 in the original pictorial boards, browned, spine chipped. London: Leonard Smithers, Janauary-December,1896

Additional Details

with-Poster for The Savoy. Lithograph in colors (233 x 172mm) on paper. Matted and framed. (500 x 360mm; not examined out of frame). London: by C.F. Kell for Leonard Smithers, [1896]. Image adapted from Beardsley's design for the cover of the last issue of The Savoy.