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under §2, includes poem The ivory piece and prose The celestial
love.
Letters and papers
Last letters of Aubrey Beardsley. With an introductory note by the
Rev John Gray. 1904, Folcroft PA 1973 (facs); tr Ger. Leipzig 1910.
162 letters (plus 4 telegrams) to André Raffalovich, with 14 other
letters (3 to John Gray); includes account of the artist’s funeral,
possibly written by Mabel Beardsley.
Briefe: Kalendernotizen und die vier zeichnungen zu E. A. Poe von
Aubrey Beardsley. Munich 1908. 4 illus to Edgar Allan Poe and 181
letters to Smithers, tr F. Waerndorfer. Introd by F. Blei; includes
some ‘notes’ purportedly written by Beardsley in a notebook.
King, A. W. An Aubrey Beardsley lecture. With an introd and notes
by R. A. Walker and some unpbd letters and drawings. 1924. 16
letters (some in facs) to A. W. King, and 14 drawings; main text a
talk about Beardsley by King.
Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers. Ed with introd
and notes by R. A. Walker 1937. 186 letters to Smithers, plus 1 to
Ernest Dowson and 1 to J. H. Ashworth.
Ross, M. (ed). Friend of friends: Robert Ross. 1952. Includes 12 letters
from Beardsley.
Walker, R. A. Letters of Aubrey Beardsley. Princeton Univ Lib Chron
Spring 1955. 60 letters.
A letter to Smithers. With a note by P. Gannon. Edinburgh 1963.
Letter to Leonard Smithers, 18 Sep 1897.
The letters of Aubrey Beardsley. Ed H. Maas, J. L. Duncan and W. G.
Good, Rutherford NJ [1970], London 1970, Deddington 1990. 631
letters (7 with sketches reproduced) and 3 drawings. Collects all
previously pbd letters and adds many new ones.
Aubrey Beardsley: poems. Introd and notes by M. Sturgis.
[Edinburgh] 1998 (priv ptd for the Eigteen Nineties Society).
Collects 16 poems by Beardsley (also illus with drawings and facs
of mss).
In black and white: the literary remains of Aubrey Beardsley. Ed S.
Calloway and D. Colvin. 1998.
§2
Nicholas Salerno’s annotated secondary bibliography in Reconsidering
Aubrey Beardsley, ed R. Langenfeld, lists more than 1,500 items encompassing
books, articles, dissertations, catalogues and reviews. What follows is a
selection of the important biographies and early criticism (virtually all of
which reproduce Beardsley’s work).
Pennell, J. A new illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley. The Studio 1, Apr
1893. Issue of mag has 9 drawings and front cover design (also
used for poster) by Beardsley.
What the ‘Yellow Book’ is to be: some meditations with its editors.
Sketch 5, 11 Apr 1894. Interview with Beardsley and Henry
Harland.
A new master of art: Mr Aubrey Beardsley. To-day 12 May 1894.
Interview.
Pennell, J. In his Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen: their work and
their methods. A study of the art to-day with technical suggestions.
1894.
An apostle of the grotesque. Sketch 9, 10 Apr 1895. Interview.
Hiatt, C. In his Picture posters: a short history of the illustrated
placard, 1895.
Pennell, J. In his Modern illustration, 1895.
In Posters in miniature, introd by E. Penfield; New York 1896, introd
by P. Pollard.
Lawrence, A. H. Mr Aubrey Beardsley and his work. Idler 11, Mar
1897. Interview, in part probably written by Beardsley.
Beerbohm, M. Aubrey Beardsley. Idler 13, May 1898. Rptd in his A
variety of things, 1928.
L[awler], W[illiam]. Aubrey Beardsley. London Year Book 1898.
Vallance, A. The invention of Aubrey Beardsley. Mag of Art May
1898.
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
W[hite], G[leeson]. Aubrey Beardsley in memoriam. Studio 13, 14
May 1898.
Cochran, C. B. Aubrey Beardsley at school. The Poster: an illustrated
monthly chronicle 1 Aug–Sep 1898.
Symons, A. Aubrey Beardsley. 1898; 1905 (rev and enlarged edn)
(includes facs of ms of Beardsley’s version of Catullus’s Carmen
ci, large paper edn has 2 additional drawings by Beardsley); Paris
1906 (Fr trn of 1905 edn by J. Cohen and E. and L. Thomas). Reset
edn 1948, rptd 1966, 1967 and 1971. The 1905 text was also used for
introd to The art of Aubrey Beardsley, New York [1918] (Mod Lib
ser) (many later printings). Based on article pbd in Fortnightly
Rev May 1898.
Gallatin, A. E. Aubrey Beardsley as a designer of bookplates. 1902.
Also pbd in Reader Dec 1902.
[Lane, J.] Aubrey Beardsley and The Yellow Book. 1903. Contains
texts of 2 letters from Beardsley previously rptd in Under the hill
and other essays in prose and verse.
Gallatin, A. E. In his Whistler’s art dicta and other essays, 1904.
Ross, R. Aubrey Beardsley. With 16 full-page illus and a revised
iconography by A. Vallance. 1909, 2nd edn 1921. Text first
appeared as the eulogy in Volpone (iconography rev from A book
of fifty drawings).
Derry, Georges [R. A. Walker]. The book-plates of Aubrey Beardsley.
The Bookplate Booklet 1 Oct 1919.
Pennell, J. Aubrey Beardsley and other men of the nineties.
Philadelphia 1924 (priv ptd).
Macfall, [C.] H. Aubrey Beardsley: the clown, the harlequin, the
pierrot of his age. New York 1927; 2nd edn as Aubrey Beardsley:
the man and his work, London [1928] (special issue of 100 copies
has drawings and facs of letter not in ordinary issue) facs edns
pbd Folcroft PA 1971, Freeport NY 1972, Norwood PA 1976 and
Philadelphia 1977.
Rothenstein, W. In his Men and memories: recollections of William
Rothenstein, 1872–1900, 1931. Includes letter and extracts from 2
letters to Rothenstein, all rptd in Letters of Aubrey Beardsley,
also facs of ms of The three musicians.
Evans, B. Ifor. In his English poetry in the later nineteenth century,
1933, 1966 (rev).
May, J. Lewis. In his John Lane and the nineties, 1936. Includes
extracts from letters to G. F. Scotson-Clark and John Lane; full
texts ptd in Letters of Aubrey Beardsley.
Walker, R. A. Le morte darthur with Beardsley illus: a bibliographical
essay. Bedford 1945. Expanded from Bibliographical notes on
‘Le morte d’Arthur’, TLS 31 Mar 1945.
Pierrot of the minute. TLS 19 Mar 1949.
Walker, R. A. How to detect Beardsley forgeries. Bedford 1950.
Appendix contains list of spurious works.
Townsend, J. B. The Yellow Book. Princeton Univ Lib Chron Winter
1955. Documents regarding Beardsley’s dismissal as art editor of
the mag.
Mix, K. L. A study in yellow: the Yellow book and its contributors.
Lawrence KS 1960.
Reade, B. Aubrey Beardsley. 1966. Victoria and Albert Museum
picture book.
Lavers, A. Aubrey Beardsley, man of letters. In Romantic mythologies,
ed Ian Fletcher, 1967.
Weintraub, S. Beardsley: a biography. New York 1967, London 1967,
Harmondsworth 1972 (rev Pen edn); Aubrey Beardsley: imp of the
perverse, Univ Park PA 1976 (rewritten edn with much new material,
virtually a different book). Ger trn of 1967 edn by C. Spiel,
Munich 1968.
Brophy, B. Black and white: a portrait of Aubrey Beardsley. 1968,
New York 1969.
Easton, M. Aubrey and the dying lady: a Beardsley riddle. 1972,
Boston 1972. Contains previously unpbd documents.
Brophy, B. Beardsley and his world. 1976, New York 1976.
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