JONSON, Ben. Volpone; or The Foxe. A new edition. With ... a frontispiece, five [in fact six] initial letters and a cover design illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley. With a eulogy on the artist by Robert Ross, New York: John Lane, 1898, 4°, limited to 1100 copies, this number 43 of 100 copies on Imperial Japanese vellum, frontispiece in line-block, initials reproduced in half tone and photogravure, 5 of the 6 initials enlarged on a separate plate, original vellum gilt, front cover with an all-over gilt-stamped design of hyacinthine flowers after Beardsley, t.e.g., others uncut. [Gallatin p. 69]

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JONSON, Ben. Volpone; or The Foxe. A new edition. With ... a frontispiece, five [in fact six] initial letters and a cover design illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley. With a eulogy on the artist by Robert Ross, New York: John Lane, 1898, 4°, limited to 1100 copies, this number 43 of 100 copies on Imperial Japanese vellum, frontispiece in line-block, initials reproduced in half tone and photogravure, 5 of the 6 initials enlarged on a separate plate, original vellum gilt, front cover with an all-over gilt-stamped design of hyacinthine flowers after Beardsley, t.e.g., others uncut. [Gallatin p. 69]

Beardsley died on 16 March, 1898, before his Volpone illustrations had been completed.