{"product_id":"gallatin-albert-eugene-aubrey-beardsley-catalogue-of-drawings-and-bibliography","title":"GALLATIN, A[lbert] E[ugene]. Aubrey Beardsley. Catalogue of Drawings and Bibliography.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eBeardsley Bibliography for Christmas\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGALLATIN, A[lbert] E[ugene].\u003c\/strong\u003e Aubrey Beardsley. Catalogue of Drawings and Bibliography. \u003ci\u003eNew York: [George Grady Press] for The Grolier Club\u003c\/i\u003e. [November] 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, plain blue dust-jacket, beige endpapers; pp. [8], 141, [5]; photographic frontispiece and 7 plates after p. 141; slight wear to cloth spine and light sunning to spine of jacket, jacket split at upper joint; nonetheless a very good copy; front free endpaper inscribed ‘Louise and Charles | Merry Christmas | from | the author’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, one of three hundred copies, of this bibliography and catalogue of Beardsley’s drawings printed by the Grolier Club, including five newly published drawings, presented by Gallatin to his sister and brother-in-law for Christmas.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe newly published drawings are a sketch from Beardsley’s copy of Jonathan Swift’s 1886 Prose Writings, ‘Sarah Bernhardt’, an initial intended for \u003ci\u003eLe Morte d’Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e, a grotesque intended for the Bon-Mots series, and ‘Carl Maria von Weber’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis work, with a frontispiece comprising three previously unpublished photographs of Beardsley by Frederick H. Evans, also reprints Beardsley’s letter to the editor of the \u003ci\u003eDaily Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e (17 April 1894) and Beardsley’s essay on commercial designs, ‘The Art of the Hoarding’ (\u003ci\u003eThe New Review\u003c\/i\u003e XI, July 1894).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/i\u003e Presented by the author to his older sister, Louise Gallatin Gay (1880–1970), and her husband, Charles Merrick Gay (m. 1909), professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamuels Lasner 186; see Gertner Zatlin 61.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124791\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64326518473081,"sku":"2124791","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124791a.jpg?v=1787325240","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/gallatin-albert-eugene-aubrey-beardsley-catalogue-of-drawings-and-bibliography","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}