WILDE, Oscar. Salomé. A tragedy in one act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde [by Lord Alfred Douglas]. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley, London: Elkin Mathews & Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894, 4°, limited to 600 copies, this one of 500 on paper first edition in English, frontispiece, title design, design on List of the Pictures, 9 plates and powder-puff tail-piece from line-blocks by Carl Hentschel after Beardsley, with 8 leaves of publisher's advertisements at end (small tear to outer margin of page 43, one plate thumb-soiled on verso), original blue cloth gilt with small diagrammatic design of roses after the artist on front and Beardsley's Japanese monogram on back cover (slight stain on front cover, spine a little rubbed and faded). "Before commencing Salome two events contributed to give Beardsley a fresh impetus and stimulate his method of expression: a series of visits to the collection of Greek vases in the British Museum ... and to the famous Peacock Room of Mr. Whistler in Prince's Gate -- one the antithesis of Japan, the other of Burne-Jones" (Robert Ross, Aubrey Beardsley , 1909, p. 45). "Caricatures of Wilde, whom Beardsley greatly disliked, may be seen in The Woman in the Moon, A Platonic Lament, Enter Herodias and The Eyes of Herod" (Gallatin, p. 46).
WILDE, Oscar. Salomé. A tragedy in one act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde [by Lord Alfred Douglas]. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley, London: Elkin Mathews & Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894, 4°, limited to 600 copies, this one of 500 on paper first edition in English, frontispiece, title design, design on List of the Pictures, 9 plates and powder-puff tail-piece from line-blocks by Carl Hentschel after Beardsley, with 8 leaves of publisher's advertisements at end (small tear to outer margin of page 43, one plate thumb-soiled on verso), original blue cloth gilt with small diagrammatic design of roses after the artist on front and Beardsley's Japanese monogram on back cover (slight stain on front cover, spine a little rubbed and faded). "Before commencing Salome two events contributed to give Beardsley a fresh impetus and stimulate his method of expression: a series of visits to the collection of Greek vases in the British Museum ... and to the famous Peacock Room of Mr. Whistler in Prince's Gate -- one the antithesis of Japan, the other of Burne-Jones" (Robert Ross, Aubrey Beardsley , 1909, p. 45). "Caricatures of Wilde, whom Beardsley greatly disliked, may be seen in The Woman in the Moon, A Platonic Lament, Enter Herodias and The Eyes of Herod" (Gallatin, p. 46).
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