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On Decadence and Dandyism

JACKSON, Holbrook. The Eighteen Nineties. A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1922.

8vo. Publisher’s buckram-backed boards with marbled burgundy sides, printed spine label, top-edge stained black; pp. 304; frontispiece portrait of Beardsley after photograph by Frederick H. Evans and a further 23 plates (of which 7 by Beardsley); full-page illustration by Beardsley to pp. 6 and 8; spine lightly soiled, hinges cracked, very light wear to corners and extremities; nonetheless a very good copy; 1922 ownership inscription of James J. McManus to front free endpaper.

Second edition (first 1913), revised and corrected, of this study of the literary and artistic culture of the 1890s by the bibliophile and journalist Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948).

This is the first edition of The Eighteen Nineties to include the drawing ‘Britannia à la Beardsley’, by E.T. Reed, reproduced by permission of Punch. Beardsley accounts for nearly half of the illustrations, with other plates by the likes of William Nicholson, Max Beerbohm, Walter Crane, Charles Ricketts, and Charles Conder. We have found several variants of the publisher’s binding, all in buckram-backed boards with a printed spine label but with differing patterned paper.

Dedicated to Max Beerbohm (the subject of the chapter ‘The Incomparable Max), The Eighteen Nineties dedicates an entire chapter to Beardsley, also addressing Decadence, Oscar Wilde, ‘Shocking as a Fine Art’, the private press movement, George Bernard Shaw, and ‘The New Dandyism’, amongst others.

Not in Samuels Lasner.

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