The Confessions of Aubrey Beardsley.
Bantam, 1993. First edition, first printing. Small bump to upper corners, still fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover. Item #212890
Lovingly and beautifully inscribed to his "true friend" Judith.
From the flap: "Aubrey Beardsley first came into public view...with his illustrations for Malory's Morte d'Arthur. By the following year he was notorious. His illustrations for Oscar Wilde's infamous play Salome shocked and bewildered the public, and brought forth cries of outrage...his drawings were lambasted as decadent, obscene and immoral, and with Wilde's conviction in 1895, Beadsley was found guilty by association...From then until his death three years later, Beadsley could only get his work published by Leonard Smithers, a pornographer."
Price: $25.00