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Title: Aubrey Beardsley

Author: Robert Ross

Contributor: Aymer Vallance

Release Date: August 4, 2010 [EBook #33347]

Language: English

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AUBREY BEARDSLEY

[Illustration: MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL
_Now in the Berlin National Gallery_]

[Illustration]

AUBREY BEARDSLEY

BY ROBERT ROSS

WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS AND A
REVISED ICONOGRAPHY
BY AYMER VALLANCE

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMIX

TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

TO
Sir COLERIDGE ARTHUR FITZROY KENNARD,
Bart.

Illustrations

MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL _Frontispiece_
_Now in the Berlin National Gallery_

_facing page_

SIEGFRIED 12
_Reproduced from the original in the possession of
Mrs Bealby Wright_

THE WOMAN IN THE MOON 14
_From "Salome"_

THE TOILETTE OF SALOME 18
_From "Salome"_

THE DANCER'S REWARD 20
_From "Salome"_

TAILPIECE 22
_From "Salome"_

DESIGN FOR A FRONTISPIECE 26
_From "Plays" by John Davidson_

THE WAGNERITES 28

ATALANTA 32

THE MYSTERIOUS ROSE GARDEN 36

ILLUSTRATION FOR "A NOCTURNE OF CHOPIN" 38

CHOPIN, BALLADE III. OP. 47 42
_Reproduced by permission of Charles Holme, Esqre._

THE BARON'S PRAYER 44
_From "The Rape of the Lock"_

THE BATTLE OF BEAUX AND BELLES 48
_From "The Rape of the Lo