Under the hill and other essays in prose and verse / by Aubrey Beardsley ; with illustrations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898.

Contributor:

Lane, John, 1854-1925.

Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898.

Beardsley, Aubrey.

Genre:

Advertisements -- Great Britain -- London -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Gumaer, Alfred Hermann (donor)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 70 pages, 71 unnumbered pages-[80] pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 27 cm

Manufacture:

London : Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : John Lane, Publisher, The Bodley Head, 1904.

Contents:

Under the hill.

The three musicians.

The ballad of a barber.

[Translation of] Catullus: Carmen Cl.

Table talk of Aubrey Beardsley.

Two letters of Aubrey Beardsley.

Notes:

Abridged and Bowdlerized version of the author's Story of Venus and Tannhaüser, later published in full under that title: London : For private circulation [Leonard Smithers], 1907.

"Publisher's note" by John Lane, p. [v]-xi, dated July, 1903.

Bound in blue cloth with Beardsley's design for the cover of Salomé in gold.

Frontispiece and plates accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress; guard sheet also precedes advertisements.

The 17 inserted plates, printed on one side only, are, with exceptio of the frontispiece, counted in the pagination; the 5 plates grouped at end are listed as p. 71, 73, 75, 77, 79.

"List of volumes illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley" (publisher's advertisement) on p. [1]-[4] at end.

Cited in:

Gallatin, A.E. Beardsley, p. 106

Reade & Dickinson Aubrey Beardsley exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1966, 445,447

Related Work:

Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898. Story of Venus and Tannhäuser.

Contains:

Under the hill.

OCLC:

16100140