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Late Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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all rptd in Under the hill and other essays in prose and verse.
Beardsley designed the front cover, publisher’s device and initial
A for the mag’s prospectus Nov 1895 (issued in 2 forms, Pierrot
and John Bull); also a poster advertising the collected issue in 3
vols Nov 1896 (adapted from front cover design for no 8).
Pope, Alexander. The rape of the lock. 1896 (8 illustrations, frontispiece
and front cover design by Beardsley); 2nd ‘Bijou’ edn
‘1897’ [1896] (adds reproductions of front cover for 1896 edn and
of new front cover design); 3rd edn ‘1902’ [1901] (8 illus and frontispiece
from 1896 edn), rptd 1916; Leipzig 1908 (8 illus, frontispiece
and front cover design from 1896 edn, Ger trn by Rudolf
A. Schröder); New York 1968 (facs of 1896 edn).
Dowson, Ernest. Verses. 1896. Front cover design by Beardsley.
Aristophanes. The Lysistrata. 1896. 8 illus by Beardsley (anon trn by
Samuel Smith); [Vienna] 1905 (priv ptd, some copies add a
forgery); [Germany] 1905 (priv ptd); 1927 (adds the forgery
Adoration of the penis; the imprint ‘Beardsley Press’ is assuredly
fictitious); Paris 1921 (priv ptd, includes introd by George
Frederick Lees); New York 1967 (facs of 1896 edn), New York 1968
(adds illus by Athenian artists, text tr Jack Brussel); [1973]. In c.
1929 a set of collotype plates were ptd to accompany an unpbd
introd by R. A. Walker.
Dowson, E. The Pierrot of the minute: a dramatic phantasy in one
act. With a frontispiece, initial letter, vignette, and cul-de-lampe
by Aubrey Beardsley. 1897, Munich 1921 (Ger tr by Johannes von
Guenther).
Jonson, B. Ben Jonson his Volpone: or the foxe. A new edition. With
a critical essay on the author by Vincent O’Sullivan and a frontispiece,
five initial letters, and a cover design illustrative and
decorative by Aubrey Beardsley. Together with an eulogy of the
artist by Robert Ross. 1898 [text ed anon by Ernest Dowson, the
prospectus [July 1898] reproduces frontispiece and incorporates
notes about the book by Beardsley]; Berlin 1910 (Ger tr by M.
Mauthner); Potsdam ‘1927’ [1926?] (Ger adaptation by Stefan
Zweig); New York 1928 (S. Zweig’s adaptation trn into Eng by
Ruth Langner).
Beardsley executed a number of other commissions for book and catalogue
covers, title pages, posters, etc, from publishers, principally J. M. Dent, John
Lane and Leonard Smithers, but also William Heinemann and T. Fisher
Unwin. He also pbd many drawings in periodicals – such as Past and
present, The Studio, Pall Mall Budget, Pall Mall Gazette, and The
Poster – and on occasion produced designs for invitation cards and book
plates. Details will be found in Reade and Dickinson’s catalogue of the 1966
Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, in Gallatin’s several lists, and in M.
Samuels Lasner’s A selective checklist of the published work of
Aubrey Beardsley, all cited in Bibliographies and catalogues of drawings,
above.
Literary works
The valiant. Past and present: the magazine of the Brighton
Grammar School X June 1885. Poem. Rptd in S. Weintraub,
Beardsley, below.
Two to one. Brighton Society 11 June 1887. Rptd in Matthew Strugis, A
new poem by Aubrey Beardsley, Keynotes vol II, no 8 1996. Poem.
A ride on an omnibus. Brighton Soc 9 July 1887. Poem.
A very free (library) reading with apologies to W. S. Gilbert. Brighton
Soc 14 Apr 1888. Poem. Attributed to Beardsley but probably not
by him.
The story of a confession album. Tit-Bits 17, 4 Jan 1890. Unsigned
story. Rptd in L. Zatlin, The story of a confession album: the precursor
of Aubrey Beardsley’s fascination with triangles, in
Transforming genres: new approaches to British fiction of the
1890s, ed N. L. Manos and M.-J. Rochelson, New York 1994.
Letter to the editor. Daily Chron 2 Mar 1894. [Reply to criticism of
his frontispiece for John Davidson, Plays.] Rptd in Letters of
Aubrey Beardsley.
Letter to the editor. Daily Chron 17 Apr 1894. [Regarding portrait of
Mrs Patrick Campbell pbd in vol 1 of The Yellow Book.] Rptd in A.
E. Gallatin, Catalogue of drawings and bibliography, and in
Letters of Aubrey Beardsley.
Letter to the editor. Pall Mall Budget 1336, 3 May 1894. [Defending
title page design for vol 1 of The Yellow Book.] Rptd in Letters of
Aubrey Beardsley.
The art of the hoarding. New Rev 11 July 1894. Beardsley’s contribution
forms pt 3 of The art of the hoarding (other parts by Jules
Chérêt and Dudley Hardy), illus with 2 works by the artist. Text
rptd in A. E. Gallatin, Catalogue of drawings and bibliography,
and in R. A. Walker, A Beardsley miscellany.
Under the hill and other essays in prose and verse: with illus. 1904
(contains Under the hill (expurgated version of The story of
Venus and Tannhäuser), The three musicians, The ballad of a
barber, and trn of Catullus’s Carmen ci, all rptd from The Savoy;
also 2 letters to the press and Table talk of Aubrey Beardsley (17
drawings and front cover design – adapted from original cover
for Salome – by Beardsley), New York 1977 (facs, with introd by E.
Lucie-Smith); London 1913, 1921, 1928, 1930, Leipzig 1905 (frontispiece
by Beardsley, Ger trn by R. A. Schröder of Under the hill,
The three musicians, The ballad of a barber, and Catullus’s
Carmen ci), rptd 1909, Frankfurt 1965 (Schröder’s Ger trn of
Under the hill alone with 5 Beardsley drawings); Paris 1908 (Fr
trn by A. J. H. Cornette of Under the hill, The three musicians,
The ballad of a barber, Catullus’s Carmen ci, and Table talk of
Aubrey Beardsley with 13 drawings, introd by J.-E. Blanche);
Girard KS [c. 1931] (Little Blue Books ser no 1643, Under the hill
only).
The story of Venus and Tannhäuser . . .. 1907 (priv ptd, first ‘complete’
text of unfinished Under the hill using its original title (an
expurgated version appeared in The Savoy and in Under the hill
and other essays in prose and verse)); Munich 1909 (Ger trn);
Munich 1920 (Ger trn by Curt Moreck, adds 7 drawings); Hanover
[1920] (Ger trn by P. Templin, includes continuation of story and
epilogue by F. Blei); Berlin [1920] (Ger trn); [Paris? c. 1920?]; New
York 1927 (priv ptd, with 16 drawings by B. R. Elliott); [Berlin?
1930] (priv ptd, adds 9 drawings by Beardsley); Paris 1959 (text of
1927 edn ‘completed’ by J. Glassco, frontispiece and title page
designs for The story of Venus and Tannhäuser, 6 drawings from
The Savoy, and 2 other related works by Beardsley), rptd London
1966 and New York 1959 and 1967 (also Du trn Amsterdam 1971);
Paris 1963 (Fr trn by O. Colonna, 6 Beardsley drawings); Buenos
Aires [1967] (Portuguese trn and introd by M. Toledo); New York
[1967] (frontispiece and title page designs for The story of Venus
and Tannhäuser, plus 80 Beardsley drawings, cover designs, etc,
introd by P. J. Gillette); Wiesbaden [1967] (illustr N. Kaspar);
Munich [1968] (Ger trn by J. Wilkat, includes 28 letters to
Smithers, illus with 73 Beardsley drawings); London 1974 (ed
with introd by R. Oresko, 13 Beardsley drawings, text based on
1907 edn, with two passages in ch 7 interpolated from The Savoy);
London [1985] (frontispiece and title page designs for The story of
Venus and Tannhäuser, plus 46 drawings, cover designs, etc, by
Beardsley, also forgery Adoration of the penis).
Kresby a verse: prelozil Jarmil Krecar. Bradac 1916. Czech trn of The
ballad of a barber, The three musicians, and Beardsley’s version
of Catullus’s Carmen ci (also has 6 drawings).
The ballad of a barber. [Regensburg] 1919 (priv ptd). Poem rptd with
the accompanying 2 drawings from The Savoy.
A Beardsley miscellany: selected and edited by R. A. Walker. 1949.
Includes The art of the hoarding, a variant text of The story of
Venus and Tannhäuser (one page of ms reproduced), and facs of
ms of The ballad of a barber, of the prospectus for Volpone, and of
the previously unpublished poem The ivory piece (also 12 drawings).
Reconsidering Aubrey Beardsley. Ed R. Langenfeld 1989, see below