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AUBREY BEARDSLEY AS A
DESIGNER OF BOOK-PLATES
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AUBREY BEARDSLEY AS A
DESIGNER OF BOOK-PLATES
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his
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work than
Aubrey Beardsley^
His designs include
tions for
many
illustra-
of the classics,
keenly
satirical,
drawings
book-covers,
title-pages,book-plates
Know-
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The
really
essential view-
work have
work which
mortal.
ities
of
in his
any other
but just
difficult
why
as one critic holds, his ignoring of perspective and proportion, and his freedom, to a
certain extent, of convention,
caused his works to meet with
a succes de scandale.
It seems strange that Beardsley is not better known than
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he
is
what
In
Ex Libris^
suppose may be
as a designer of
I
monu-
mental work,
*^
Book-Plates'' (London:
Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner
Co^, Ltd-, I897),byHenryW.
Fincham, about 5,000 book-
can
&
plates
by more than
artists
are
catalogued*
J,
500
Mr
for
his art
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is
his very
The
The
first
a characteristic
one of Beardsley^s
the phase
various manners
of his work in which he deplate
example of
is
all
am
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unable to
add to
this
made
into
two may
book-plates, these
be authorized, says
Mr. White.
Another design
of this nature I know of, which
has never been mentioned in
^^
The
print, is the drawing
Scarlet Pastoral'' with ''The
Book-Plate of H. F.
W. Man-
Aside from
value as a
book-plate, Beardsley^s ^* Ex
Libris Olive Custance ^^ is perhaps the most notable of his minor drawings^ As a book-plate
it
its
most charming*
The drawing entitled ^^ Auis
certainly
Drawings by Aubrey
Beardsley/^ is in reality no
of Fifty
duced
probably
using this
word as meaning
published*
came into
drawing representTo
ing Flosshilde (J 896).
have been
these drawings
added, with a pen, ^^ Ex Libris
Alaister Crowley'' and ^^Ex
and
of the
J^ Eighty-five
copies of this
book have been printed on
hand-made paper and three on
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