Nov 17, 2020 - Sale 2551

Sale 2551 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BEARDSLEY, AUBREY. [Four illustrations to the Works of Edgar Allan Poe]. 8vo, (200 x 130 mm, sheet) printed on japon, laid loose as issued in original pictorial parchment portfolio, large floral design blocked in gilt on each cover; together with uniformly sized portrait of Poe and 17 illustrations, most by Wogel. Sidney Kramer does not mention the four Beardsley illustrations in his history of Stone & Kimball, however he does mention this portfolio of eighteen illustrations by nineteenth-century French artists. He suggests these were to be issued with the 10 sets on japon apparently reserved for Poe's collaborators and never offered for sale. Lasner 80. [Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894-95]