Beautiful Decadence

Alastair, Arthur Rackham, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Ricketts, Harry Clarke, Joichiro Kawamura, Laurence Housman, Rodney Engen, Sidney Sime, Willy Pogany

Tokyo

:

Commitee for Aubrey Beardsley and His Contemporaries Exhibition

,

1997

.
First Edition.

30.5cm x 20.5cm. 253, [2] pages, illustrations, many colour. Cloth wrappers, gilt lettering and decoration, envelope bag. Text is bilingual, English and Japanese, primarily illustrations.

Catalogue for an exhibition of Aubrey Beardsley and his contemporaries which toured Japan in 1997 and 1998 at the Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Nara Sogo Museum of Art, Nara, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu. Text is largely bilingual, Japanese and English, though some parts in Japanese only. Illustrated throughout with the works of Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Charles Ricketts, Laurence Housman, Harry Clarke, Alastair, Sidney Herbert Sime, Willy Pogany, and Arthur Rackham. Text by Rodney Engen and Joichiro Kawamura. This copy housed in the original bag, opened.

Very minor foxing to the fore-edge. Bag opened. Near Fine Condition.