Prospectus for the Yellow Book
An Illustrated Quarterly Volume I April, 1894
John Lane, 1894.
Yellow wrappers with Beardsley drawing to the upper cover. Announcement of the new illustrated quarterly, with an introduction to the publisher's aims and to the contributors of the Yellow books, plus an order form. In very good condition indeed.
The aim of the Publishers and Editors of THE YELLOW BOOK is to depart as far as may be from the bad old traditions of periodical literature, and to provide an Illustrated Magazine which shall be as beautiful as a piece of bookmaking, modern and distinguished in its letterpress and its pictures, and withal popular in the better sense of the word. (blurb) The design by Beardsley depicts an elegant young lady browsing in a bookstore, "The suggestion contained in the design is that the enterprising young woman who is free to decide what she reads will be interested in just this sort of periodical." (Reade)
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