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BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-98, illustrator) -- The Uncollected Work ... with an Introduction by C. Lewis Hind, London: John Lane, 1925. 4° (282 x 220mm). Half title, photogravure portrait frontispiece, caricature by Max Beerbohm plates and illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, with the 6 extra illustrations bound in at the end. Original decorated cloth gilt, top edges gilt (spine darkened, some very light staining). FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 59 OF 110 COPIES ON JAPAN VELLUM. Gallatin p.75; Lasner 177. Loosely-inserted is a 4-page prospectus for the work pricing this special edition at 10 10s net. SYMONS, Arthur. Aubrey Beardsley, London: "At the Sign of the Unicorn," 1898. 4° (220 x 170mm). 3 portraits of Aubrey Beardsley and 6 plates at the end, one printed in colours. Original cloth-backed boards gilt (spine darkened, a few light stains, some surface rubbing). FIRST EDITION. Gallatin p.79; Lasner 130. With 15 other books by or about Aubrey Beardsley including Nineteen Early Drawings ([London], 1919, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES), Fifty Drawings ... Selected from the Collection owned by Mr. H. S. Nichols (New York, 1920, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES), Some Unknown Drawings ... Collected and Annotated by R. A. Walker (London, 1923, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES), Haldane Macfall's Aubrey Beardsley. The Man and His Work (London, 1928, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, with a 2-page autograph letter from the author inserted at the front), and the amended proof sheets to R. A. Walker's edition of Salome (London, 1957). (17)