{"product_id":"beardsley-aubrey-nineteen-early-drawings-by-aubrey-beardsley-from-the-collection-of-mr-harold-hartley-with-an-introduction-by-georges-derry","title":"BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Nineteen Early Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. From the Collection of Mr. Harold Hartley. With an Introduction by Georges Derry.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePreviously Unpublished Puerilia, Privately Printed\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBEARDSLEY, Aubrey.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nineteen Early Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. From the Collection of Mr. Harold Hartley. With an Introduction by Georges Derry. \u003ci\u003e S.l.: privately printed.\u003c\/i\u003e 1919.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4t4to. Original cloth-backed portfolio with paper sides, printed label to upper board, vestigial grey cloth ties; comprising 8-pp. pamphlet in publisher’s printed self-wrappers and 19 loose collotype plates; boards a little toned to extremities and rubbed to corners; old shelflabel to inside front board; marginal offsetting to illustration no. 1 from boards; else very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst limited edition, no. 11 of 150 copies signed by Harold Hartley, including nineteen previously unpublished comic illustrations by Beardsley of Book II of Virgil’s \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese drawings were made by Beardsley in 1886, in his thirteenth to fourteenth year, whilst he was translating the Aeneid with his Form-master, H.A. Payne of the Brighton Grammar School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘It must be conceded that their artistic value is slight when compared with the astounding technique exhibited by Beardsley a comparatively few years after. They are not, however, entirely lacking in good draughtsmanship … What distinguishes these drawings from nearly all his early work is their delightful humour – their genuine, though crude, comicality’ (from the Introduction by ‘Georges Derry’, pseudonym of R.A. Walker).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGertner Zatlin 47–65; Samuels Lasner 166.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2108759\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64326567887225,"sku":"2108759","price":475.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2108759.jpg?v=1787325591","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/beardsley-aubrey-nineteen-early-drawings-by-aubrey-beardsley-from-the-collection-of-mr-harold-hartley-with-an-introduction-by-georges-derry","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}