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BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-98, illustrator) -- Walt RUDING. An Evil Motherhood. An Impressionist Novel, London: Elkin Mathews, 1896. 8° (192 x 130mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece ?of the author, seated, by Aubrey Beardsley, 20-page publisher's advertisement at end. Original blue cloth with cobweb design on upper cover, lettered in gilt (spine faded). FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Lasner 94.
With 6 other books by Aubrey Beardsley including A Book of Fifty Drawings (London, 1897, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES), A Second Book of Fifty Drawings (London, 1899, LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES), 'The Pay of the Pied Piper'. Reprinted from the 1888 Xmas Entertainment Programme of the Brighton Grammar School (?Brighton, 1898, Lasner 5a) and The Story of Venus and Tannhauser ... A Romantic Novel (London, 1907, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES). (7)
With 6 other books by Aubrey Beardsley including A Book of Fifty Drawings (London, 1897, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES), A Second Book of Fifty Drawings (London, 1899, LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES), 'The Pay of the Pied Piper'. Reprinted from the 1888 Xmas Entertainment Programme of the Brighton Grammar School (?Brighton, 1898, Lasner 5a) and The Story of Venus and Tannhauser ... A Romantic Novel (London, 1907, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES). (7)
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