Volpone: or The Fox
by JONSON, Ben
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About This Item
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Limited. hardcover. Beardsley, Aubrey. A New Edition, with a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan, and a frontispiece, five initial letters and a cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Rubricated title. 193pp. 4to, original blue cloth with ornate Beardsley design in gilt (just slightly rubbed; inner paper hinges neatly strengthened), pages uncut and unopened. Housed in a custom cloth folder and 1/2 morocco slipcase (well-worn but solid and attractive; dampstains on bottom corners). London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition with these illustrations. A near fine copy in a good slipcase.<br/><br/> Number 44 of 1000 numbered copies on Art Paper. This work includes the last illustrations produced by Beardsley before his death, a fraction of the illustrations which the artist had originally intended for this volume.<br/><br/>
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- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 218058
- Title
- Volpone: or The Fox
- Author
- JONSON, Ben
- Illustrator
- Beardsley, Aubrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Leonard Smithers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- O'SULLIVAN, Vincent;BEARDSLEY, Aubrey
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- Gilt
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