Beardsley's Volpone
Volpone: or the Foxe...A New Edition. With a Critical Essay by Vincent O'Sullivan...Together with an Eulogy of the Artist by Robert Ross.
New York: John Lane, 1898.
Price: $750.00
About the item
Beardsley, Aubrey. First Beardsley Edition, copy #393 of 1000 for England and America. Frontispiece, Five Large Initial Letters and Vignettes, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Beardsley's Volpone. Original aquamarine cloth with elaborately gilt-stamped front cover after Beardsley's design. Fine bright copy. Bookplate of Maurice Wertheim. In open faced cloth slipcase.
Item #2783
One of Beardsley's consummate works, published here for the first time after his death. Ross's warm appreciation of Beardsley is an essential piece of Beardsleyana.
