The Rape of the Lock
Book Description
1st. edition thus, small quarto (265x200x14mm), original blue cloth, gilt blocked with Beardsley design, gilt lettered spine, slight wear to gilt, minor wear to caps, bevelled boards, slight browning on a few pages, nine drawings by Beardsley, two contemporary bookplates on front paste down and front free endpaper, a good copy.
Dealer Notes
“It was at the suggestion of Edmund Gosse that Beardsley undertook to illustrate this poem. But he seldom illustrated anything literally: rather he made graphic comments on the text....which explains the use of the word 'embroidered' on the title page.” Beardsley Brian Reade
Beardsley, a true original, an influence on (or should we say copied by) so many.
Beardsley, a true original, an influence on (or should we say copied by) so many.
Author
Alexander Pope
Date
1896
Binding
Original decorated cloth
Publisher
Leonard Smithers
Illustrator
Aubrey Beardsley
Condition
Good
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