{"product_id":"aristophanes-aubrey-beardsley-illustrator-george-frederic-lees-preface-the-lysistrata","title":"ARISTOPHANES; Aubrey BEARDSLEY (illustrator); George Frederic LEES (preface). The Lysistrata.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eBeardsley as the ‘Fra Angelico of Satanism’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARISTOPHANES; Aubrey BEARDSLEY (illustrator); George Frederic LEES (preface).\u003c\/strong\u003e The Lysistrata. \u003ci\u003eParis: ‘Privately printed’.\u003c\/i\u003e 1931.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolio. Loose as issued in publisher’s cream wrappers, lettered in red to front wrapper; pp. xv, [3], 61, [1], with half-title; 8 illustrations by Beardsley printed in green and housed in original glassine sleeves; title-page printed in red and black; light creasing and toning to wrappers, short splits to joints, a few minor abrasions to inside of wrappers; internally near fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition, no. 490 of 500 copies on mould-made Annonay paper from a total edition of 525 copies, privately printed in Paris.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe preface on Beardsley and his visual rendition of \u003ci\u003eLysistrata\u003c\/i\u003e is by Frederic William Lees (b. 1872), a painter and writer, author and French-to-English translator of several art and literary history books. ‘That Aubrey Beardsley, who was an omnivorous reader of classical literature, was fully able to understand [Aristophanes’ aims], and when illustrating Aristophanes, assume still one more new rôle is undeniable. And it is indeed one of the miracles of art that the Fra Angelico of Satanism could so completely transform himself into a “merry Greek” of the Athenian age’ (p. xv).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere were also twenty-five copies printed on handmade Van Gelder paper with plates on imperial Japanese vellum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamuels Lasner 107e\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124726\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64326529286521,"sku":"2124726","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124726a.jpg?v=1787325327","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/aristophanes-aubrey-beardsley-illustrator-george-frederic-lees-preface-the-lysistrata","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}