Under The Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse

Aubrey Beardsley

London

:

John Lane

,

1904

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First Edition.

26cm x 20cm. xi, [iv], 70 pages, [4] advertisements, 17 illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, gilt top edge.

Front cover design adapted from original cover design for Salome. Contains most of Beardsley’s writings: Under The Hill (expurgated version of The Story of Venus and Tannhauser), The Three Musicians, The Ballad of a Barber, Translation of Catullus: Carmen CI, along with two letters to the press, and Table talk of Aubrey Beardsley. 16 drawings, three of which are published for the first time, and a frontispiece portrait of Beardsley at Mentone in the room in which he died. LASNER 141.

Minor wear to cloth. Foxing to endpapers and text, most plates clean. Bookmark ghost to title page. Good Condition.