ILLUSTRATED BY BEARDSLEY Bon Mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook edited by Walter Jerrold with Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley

A beautiful copy in the publisher’s deluxe binding of this revised and expanded third edition. Small octavo format (13x8.5cm) bound in tan calf with stylised gilt foliate decoration to boards and spine; all edges gilt; gilt decoration to turn-ins. Dove grey endpapers; tissue guard to frontispiece. Beardsley’s ‘grotesques’ throughout the text.

Aubrey Beardsley (1892-1898) was a leading member of the aesthetic movement whose black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. His work caused controversy for decades after his early death.