Shelfmark
TG
Title
The Savoy / edited by Arthur Symons.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Leonard Smithers, 1896.
Physical description
3 v. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Note
Cover title.
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Collected edition in three volumes, issued by the publisher after cessation of periodical publication with no. 8 (Dec. 1896).
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With contributions from: Aubrey Beardsley; Max Beerbohm; Jacques E. Blanche; Ernest Dowson; Joseph Pennell; William Rothenstein; Charles H. Shannon; George Bernard Shaw; Walter Sickert; Arthur Symons; Paul Verlaine; James McNeill Whistler; W.B. Yeats and others.Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1896)-v. 1, no. 8 (Dec. 1896). Ceased publication with no. 8 (Dec. 1896).
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The original edition of the journal was discontinued, in part, by Wilde's conviction in 1895, poor sales and W.H. Smith's boycott due to its controversial content.
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Untrimmed edges.
Note
Publisher's blue cloth boards, designed by Aubrey Beardsley.
Provenance
Etched bookplate of Alice Grace Elizabeth Carthew; an auk standing on a pile of rocks, right, sea all around; three birds flying in the sky to the left; text etched on the rocks, with the words "Bedhoh fyr ha heb drok" [Let us be wise without guile]. Attributed by British Museum catalogue to Joseph Hecht.
Copy-specific note
News cutting of reviews tipped in: 'Aubrey Beardsley drawings', Daily Telegraph, 12 Nov. 1904 inside back cover of vol. 1; 'Death of Mr. Aubrey Beardsley', Daily News, 18 March 1898.
Subject
English literature 19th century Periodicals.
Subject
Art, English 19th century Periodicals.
Genre/Form
Little magazines.
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Carthew, Alice Grace Elizabeth, 1867 - 1940 former owner.
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England London.
Identifier
B55361