AN AUBREY BEARDSLEY LECTURE - WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY R.A. WALKER AND SOME UNPUBLISHED LETTERS AND DRAWINGS
Book Details + Condition: R.A. Walker (London), 1924. Limited Edition of 500 Copies (of which 450 were for sale) - this copy does not have a number written. Hardcover. Publisher's blue cloth with black letter title and gilt. 103 pages. Profusely illustrated with previously unpublished letters and drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. The text of lecture by A.W. King, secretary of Blackburn Technical Institute from 1890 to 1904 and friend and tutor to Aubrey Beardsley. Previously unpublished letters and drawings by Beardsley were discovered after King's death in 1922 and compiled for publication here by Beardsley expert Rainforth A. Walker. Firm binding; some darkening to boards; foxing to first and last few pages; interior is clean and free of markings.
