Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Aubrey Beardsley The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston (vols I–X) and London and New York (XI–XIII), 1894–1897 13 volumes, 4to, half-titles to volumes II–XIII, title-pages with vignettes after Beardsley and others, plates after Beardsley, Beerbohm, and others, original pictorial yellow cloth, leaves uncut, some spotting, extremities slightly bumped A COMPLETE SET OF THE DEFINITIVE WORK OF FIN-DE-SIECLE ART AND LITERATURE, whose first art director was Aubrey Beardsley, until April 1895. Although the avant-garde journal had not published anything by Oscar Wilde, the publication's reputation was tarnished by his trial, not only because Beardsley had illustrated several of Wilde's books, but also because it was alleged that Wilde had a copy of The Yellow Book on him at the time of his arrest. Beardsley was dismissed from the publication as a result.

View 1 of Lot 14: Aubrey Beardsley | The Yellow Book, 1894-1897, 13 volumes, original cloth

aubrey beardsley | the yellow book, 1894-1897, 13 volumes, original cloth

Oscar Wilde Two copies of Salome, comprising: (i) Salomé. Drama en un acte... Paris: imprimée pour les souscripteurs, 1907. COPY NUMBER 29 OF 100 DELUXE COPIES ON ARCHES LAID PAPER, from an edition of 500 copies, not for sale, 4to (255 x 190 mm), 16 full-page illustrations by Beardsley, title-page printed in red and black, facsimile of a telegram from Wilde to Louys loosely inserted before half-title, brown morocco gilt by Charles Lanoe, spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, original green wrappers bound in, housed in a modern grey cloth slipcase, transfer onto half-title from facsimile of telegram, boards slightly bowed, spine slightly faded (ii) Salomé. Drama en un acte... Paris: Librairie de l'Art Indépendant and London, Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, ORIGINAL PURPLE WRAPPERS, wrappers faded, upper joint partly torn PROVENANCE: (i) Auguste Lambiotte (1862–1920, Belgian industrialist, newspaper director, and liberal politician), bookplate; Baron Alain de Rothschild (1910–1982), bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's Paris, 24 May 2006, lot 183; (ii) Bookseller's label of Brentano's, Paris, bought by Francis King Harte (1865–1917, son of the American short story writer Bret Harte in the year of publication, ownership inscription to upper wrapper ("Francis King Harte | Paris | 1893"); Frank J. Hogan (1877–1944, prominent American lawyer and president of the American Bar Association), morocco booklabel to verso of front free endpaper; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 12 November 1954, lot 846; sale in our New York rooms, 3 July 1989, lot 955 LITERATURE: (i) Lasner 591; (ii) Mason 348

View 1 of Lot 152: Oscar Wilde | Salome, two copies with interesting provenance

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