[Rarebooks] FS: Beardsley's "A Book of Fifty Drawings" 1st ed. 1/500. London: 1897.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Beardsley, Aubrey. A BOOK OF FIFTY DRAWINGS. With an Iconography by Aymer Vallance. London: Leonard Smithers. 1897. First edition. Lg. 4to. (10),212pp. (including 50 plates as part of the pagination). Frontispiece photographic portrait of Beardsley. Orig. pictorial red cloth, gilt (a Beardsley drawing). T.e.g. Minor soiling of spine.  Bookplate of Oliver Henry Perkins, whose books were sold at Anderson Galleries in 1926.  A nice bright copy.                 $450.00 (trade discount allowed)This first edition, which was printed on Japanese vellum paper, was 500 copies. There is also a special edition of 50 copies.

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