SYMONS, Arthur & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (editors). The Savoy, London: Leonard Smithers, January- December 1896, 8 parts in 3 volumes, 4°, profusely illustrated by Beardsley, including the Christmas card tipped-in at the end of part I, with additional plates and illustrations after Whistler, Blake, C.H. Shannon, W. Rothenstein and Max Beerbohm, and literary contributions by Beardsley as well as Bernard Shaw, Symons, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Dowson among others, original purple cloth, front covers with gilt-stamped design after Beardsley, original wrappers with pictorial designs after the artist bound in.

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SYMONS, Arthur & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (editors). The Savoy, London: Leonard Smithers, January- December 1896, 8 parts in 3 volumes, 4°, profusely illustrated by Beardsley, including the Christmas card tipped-in at the end of part I, with additional plates and illustrations after Whistler, Blake, C.H. Shannon, W. Rothenstein and Max Beerbohm, and literary contributions by Beardsley as well as Bernard Shaw, Symons, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Dowson among others, original purple cloth, front covers with gilt-stamped design after Beardsley, original wrappers with pictorial designs after the artist bound in.

Gallatin p. 58: "The eight numbers were bound up in white wrappers in three volumes, with cover designs in black and white, and issued in publisher's case of purple cloth, with title page of no. I printed on side in gilt." (3)

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