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Spring 1899
Messrs Leonard Smithers & Co.'s
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MESSRS
LEONARD SMITHERS & CO.'S
List of Publications
NEW ART BOOKS
Ben Ionson: His Volpone; or, the Foxe.
Edition de Luxe of Ben Jonson's most celebrated Comedy, printed in demy quarto size on art paper, and embellished with a Cover Design, a Frontispiece in Line, and five Initial Letters decorative and illustrative, reproduced in half-tone from Pencil Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, together with a Critical Essay on the Author of the play by Vincent O'Sullivan, and an Eulogy of the Artist by Robert Ross. Bound in blue cloth, with an elaborate Original Design in gold by Mr Beardsley. Price 7s. 6d. net; edition limited to 1000 copies.
One Hundred Copies only on Japanese Vellum, bound in pure English vellum, with gilt design. Price Two Guineas net. These copies contain a duplicate set of the plates, beautifully printed in photogravure in the same size as the Original Pencil Drawings.
Mademoiselle de Maupin. By Aubrey Beardsley.
A water-colour portrait study of Gautier's famous character Mademoiselle De Maupin. Reproduced in Photogravure, and printed in colours by Boussod, Valadon & Co.
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Folio size, in a Portfolio of grey cloth and boards. Fifty copies only of this Series of Six Photogravures (being reproductions of an uncompleted set of Illustrations by the late Aubrey Beardsley to "Mademoiselle de Maupin") have been printed, at the price of Two Guineas net. Only Eight copies remain for sale.
Demy 4to, bound in scarlet cloth extra, with cover design by Mr Beardsley. Edition (500 copies) printed on imitation Japanese vellum, 10s. 6d. net, out of print; 50 copies, printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, Two Guineas net, out of print.
This Album of Drawings comprises, in addition to several hitherto unpublished designs, a selection by Mr Beardsley of his most important published work ("Morte Darthur," "Salome," "Rape of the Lock," "Yellow Book," "Savoy," etc.) The volume is of additional interest to the Artist's many admirers from the fact that the plates are in most cases reproduced from the original drawings, with due regard to their size and technique, thus preserving many delicate features which have been, to a great extent, lost by the treatment the drawings received on their first publication. The frontispiece is a reproduction of a photograph of Mr Beardsley.
Demy quarto, bound in scarlet cloth extra, with cover design by Mr Beardsley. Edition (1000 copies) printed on art paper, 10s. 6d. net. Fifty copies printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, Two Guineas net. Large Paper Edition is out of print.
This Album of Drawings contains Twenty-nine hitherto unpublished designs, in addition to a selection of the artist's best published work.
The complete set of "The Savoy," bound in three volumes, in artistic blue cloth cases, with original cover design by Mr Aubrey Beardsley, is offered for sale at ONE GUINEA net.
by Max Beerbohm; Views in London by Joseph Pennell; Unpublished Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy, by William Blake; and examples of the work of Botticelli, Whistler, D. G. Rossetti, Eisen, Charles Conder, Louis Oury, W. Rothenstein, F. Sandys, Jacques E. Blanche, J. Lemmen, W. T. Horton, Ph. Caresme, Albert Sterner, W. Sickert, Mrs P. Dearmer, Phil
May, W. B. Macdougall, A. K. Womrath, Fred Hyland, etc. etc.Verse are W. B. Yeats, Edmund Gosse, George Moore, G. Bernard Shaw, John Gray, Frederick Wedmore, Paul Verlaine, Max Beerbohm, Fiona Macleod, Vincent O'Sullivan, Clara Savile Clarke, Bliss Carman, Emile Verhaeren, Edward Carpenter, Havelock Ellis, Selwyn Image, Humphrey James, Joseph Conrad, Theodore Wratislaw, Ernest Dowson, Rudolf Dircks, Mathilde Blind, Cesare Lombroso, Leila Macdonald, Hubert Crackanthorpe, Edgar Prestage, George Morley, Ford Maddox Hueffer, Osman Edwards, Stephane Mallarme, Antonio Ferreira, R.
M.-Wierzbinski, Joseph Pennell, Ernest Rhys, Edith M. Thomas, O. G. Destrée, Sarojini Chattopadhyay, Lionel Johnson, Jean Moreas, Gabriel Gillett, O. Shakespear, Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Symons, etc. etc.These three volumes, profusely illustrated, and luxuriously printed, in crown 4to, on fine paper, at the Chiswick Press, present a most interesting record of the work done in 1896 by the "New School" of English writers and artists.
The Rape of the Lock. By Alexander
Pope. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.
Edition de Luxe of the above famous Poem, printed at the Chiswick Press, in crown 4to size, on old-style paper, illustrated with nine elaborate drawings by Mr Aubrey Beardsley, and bound in specially designed cloth cover. Limited edition, price 10s. 6d. net. Twenty-five copies on Japanese vellum, at Two Guineas net.
The Rape of the Lock. Bijou Edition,
consisting of 1000 copies on art paper and 50 copies on Japanese vellum, in demy 16mo. The publisher thinks that the reduction in size of the plates in this edition has in no way injured their attractiveness or brilliancy; a new cover design was furnished by Mr Beardsley, and the cover design to the 1896 Edition is reproduced on the third page of this volume. The volume is bound in a specially designed scarlet cloth cover. Price 4s. net. Fifty copies printed on Japanese vellum, price One Guinea net.
The Pierrot of the Minute. A
Dramatic Phantasy by Ernest Dowson. Illustrated with Frontispiece, Initial Letter, Vignette and Cul-de-Lampe by Aubrey Beardsley.
Three Hundred Copies, crown 4to, price 7s. 6d. net. Thirty copies on Japanese vellum, One Guinea net.
Mr Beardsley's designs in this volume are amongst the most charming which have come from his pen.
The Raven and The Pit and The
Pendulum. By Edgar Allen Poe. Edition de Luxe, illustrated with Seven fine Chalk Drawings by W. T. Horton, reproduced in Photogravure by Lemercier & Co., of Paris.
Demy quarto. Limited edition, printed at the Chiswick Press, and bound in cloth extra, 7s. 6d. net.
Fourteen Drawings Illustrating
Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," by Gilbert James.
Demy quarto, bound in grey cloth extra, with cover design by the Artist. Limited edition, printed on art paper, 7s. 6d. net.
Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen
By Max Beerbohm. With an Introduction by L. Raven-Hill.
in blue cloth extra, with special cover design by the Artist. Price 10s. 6d. net.
Contents.— The Prince of Wales, The Earl of Rosebery, Paderewski, Henry Labouchere, M.P., A. W. Pinero, Richard le Gallienne, A. J. Balfour, M.P., Frank Harris, Lord William Nevill, Rudyard Kipling, Sir W. Vernon Harcourt, M.P., Aubrey Beardsley, Robert S. Hichens, Henry Chaplin, M.P., Henry Harland, George Alexander, The Marquis of Queensberry, The Warden of Merton, Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., George Bernard Shaw, Sir George Lewis, George Moore, The Marquis of Granby, Beerbohm Tree, The Duke of Cambridge.
The Novels of Honoré de Balzac.
The First Issue consists of "SCENES OF PARISIAN LIFE." In Eleven Volumes.
The Scenes of Parisian Life comprise "Splendours and Miseries," "Cousin Bette," "Cousin Pons," "History of the Thirteen," "César Birotteau," "The Civil Service," "House of Nucingen," and " The Petty Bourgeois," and are now for the first time completely translated into English by competent hands, and illustrated with a series of eighty-eight etchings after drawings by celebrated Parisian book-illustrators—viz. G. Bussière, G. Cain, Dubouchet, L. E. Fournier, A. Lynch, A. Robaudi, and M. Vidal. The volumes are handsomely printed on deckle-edged paper, demy 8vo, and bound in cloth extra. Price £4, 4s. per set of eleven volumes.
There is a special Edition de Luxe, printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, with the etchings in two states Before and After Remarqués. Price £8, 8s. per set.
This first series will be followed at a brief interval by the remaining works of Balzac, and subscriptions may, if desired, be given for the entire "Comédie Humaine."
"It is impossible to enter on a detailed criticism of Balzac's novels. In them he scales every height and sounds every depth of human character, from the purity of the mysterious Seraphitus-Seraphita, cold and strange, like the peaks of her northern Alps, to the loathsome sins of the Marneffes whose deeds should find no calendar but that of hell. In the great divisions of his Comédie, the scenes of private and of public life, of the provinces and of the city, in the philosophic studies, and in the Contes Drôlatiques, Balzac has built up a work of art which answers to a mediæval cathedral. There are subterranean places, haunted by the Vautrins and 'Filles aux yeux d'or'; there are the seats of the money-changers, where the Nucingens sit at the receipt of custom; there is the broad platform of every-day life, where the journalists intrigue, where love is sold for hire, where splendours and miseries abound, where the peasants cheat their lords, where women betray their husbands; there are the shrines where pious ladies pass saintly days; there are the dizzy heights of thought and rapture, whence falls a ray from the supernatural light of Swedenborg; there are the lustful and hideous grotesques of the Contes Drôlatiques. Through all swells, like the organ-tone, the ground-note and mingled murmur of Parisian life. The qualities of Balzac are his extraordinary range of knowledge, observation, sympathy, his steadfast determination to draw every line and shadow of his subject, his keen analysis of character and conduct. Balzac holds a more distinct and supreme place in French fiction than perhaps any English author does in the same field of art."—Encyclopedia Britannica.
La Fille aux Yeux d'Or. Translated
from the French of Honoré de Balzac by Ernest Dowson, and Illustrated with six designs by Charles Conder.
Five Hundred Copies, royal 8vo size, bound in blue cloth extra, with gilt cover design. Price 12s. 6d. net.
An attempt has been made to produce an edition worthy of the reputation of one of the most famous productions of Balzac. Attention is directed to the method pursued in producing the illustrations—viz. wood engraving, which, it is hoped, will be a welcome change from the cheap photographic processes now so much in vogue.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous
Entanglements); or, Letters collected in a Private Society, and published for the instruction of others. By Choderlos de Laclos. Translated by Ernest Dowson, and illustrated by Monnet, Fragonard Fils, and Gérard.
To render this edition of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" worthy of its fame as one of the chefs d'œeuvre of Literature, it is illustrated with fine photogravure reproductions of the whole of the 15 charming designs of Monnet, Fragonard Fils, and Gérard, which appeared in the much-coveted French Edition of 1796, and which are full of that inexpressible grace and beauty inseparable from the work of these masters of French Art of the eighteenth century.
This translation of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" is complete in two volumes, demy 8vo, containing upwards of 580 closely-printed pages, and the impression of the book is strictly limited to 360 copies, each numbered. The book is choicely printed on good paper, and bound in blue cloth extra. Price, to subscribers only, Two Guineas net.
Count Hamilton's Fairy Tale: The
Four Facardins. Reprinted, with Corrections, from Bonn's Extra Series. With a Frontispiece and Cover Design in colours by Hugh Graham.
680 copies, printed in demy 8vo, and bound in pictorial cover. Price One Guinea net.
La Chartreuse de Parme.
By Stendhal (Henri Beyle). Now first translated by E. P. Robins.
Illustrated with thirty-two Etchings by G. Merrier, from designs by N. Foulquier, and Portrait of the Author. Now ready in three volumes, post 8vo, printed on Dickinson's antique paper, artistic binding, £1, 1s. net. Special Edition, printed on Van Gelder's hand-made paper, £2, 2s. net; and Edition de Luxe, printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, with Etchings in two states, one pulled on Japanese vellum, and one on pure vellum, $5, 5s. net.
The Publishers feel that the production of the first English translation of this famous novel, one of the masterpieces of French literature of the present century, needs very little in the way of introduction or explanation. The Author, a contemporary of Balzac—who described him as "an immense genius," and pronounced "La Chartreuse de Parme" his masterpiece—though not generally recognised at its true value during his lifetime, could say with a confidence which has justified itself: "I shall be understood in 1880"; for, as Bourget has justly observed: "We now speak casually of Balzac and Stendhal as we speak of Hugo and Lamartine, Ingres and Delacroix."
Red and Black. (Le Rouge et le
Noir.) By Stendhal. Now first translated by E. P. Robins. With Frontispieces by Dubouchet, etched by Gustave Mercier. Two volumes, post 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. net.
WORKS BY ARTHUR SYMONS
London Nights.
Second Edition, revised, with a New Preface. Large post 8vo. Price 6s. net. (A few Large Paper copies of the First Edition remain. Price One Guinea net.)
Silhouettes.
Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Large post 8vo. Price 5s. net. (A few Large Paper copies remain. Price One Guinea net.)
Amoris Victima: A Poem.
I. Amoris Victima. II. Amoris Exsul. III. Armoris Triumphans. IV. Mundi Victima. Large post 8vo. Price 6s. net. Large Paper Edition, One Guinea net.
Studies in Two Literatures.
Large post 8vo. Price 6s. net.
WORKS BY VINCENT O'SULLIVAN
A Book of Bargains. Stories of the
Weird and Fantastic. With Frontispiece designed by Aubrey Beardsley. Crown 8vo. Price 4s. net.
The Houses of Sin: A Book of
Poems. Large post 8vo. Price 5s. net.
The Green Window: A Book of
Essays. Large post 8vo. Price 3s. 6d. net.
WORKS BY OSCAR WILDE
The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By
C. 3. 3. [Oscar Wilde]. Seventh edition. Large post 8vo. Price 2s. 6d. net.
The Importance of being Earnest.
A Play by the Author of "Lady Windermere's Fan." Pott quarto. Price 7s. 6d. net. 100 Large Paper copies, price One Guinea net.
An Ideal Husband. A Play by
the Author of "Lady Windermere's Fan." Pott quarto. Price 7s. 6d. net. One Hundred Large Paper copies, price one Guinea net.
Verses. By Ernest Dowson
Three Hundred Small Paper copies on hand-made paper, Imperial 16mo, bound in Japanese vellum, with cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, at 6s. net; and 30 Large Paper copies, printed on Japanese vellum, at One Guinea net. Printed at the Chiswick Press.
Orchids: Poems by Theodore
Wratislaw.
Two Hundred and Fifty Small Paper copies on foolscap 8vo, deckle-edged paper, bound in cream-coloured art linen, at 5s. net; and 10 copies, printed on Japanese vellum, at One Guinea net. Printed at the Chiswick Press.
Nocturnes and Pastorals: Poems
by A. Bernard Miall. Large post 8vo. Price 5s. net.
Magister Adest: A Manual of
Catholic Devotion for the use of Convents and Schools. With about 150 Illustrations. Crown 8 vo. Price 5s. net.
The Life and Times of Madame
du Barry. By Robert B. Douglas.
A limited edition in one volume, with a Portrait of Madame du Barry finely engraved upon wood, 394 pages, demy 8vo, bound in blue cloth, with armorial cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, at 16s. net.
Memoirs of Paul de Kock. Written
by Himself. Demy 8vo. Price 16s.
The Reign of Terror. A Collection
of Authentic Narratives of the horrors committed by the Revolutionary Government of France under Marat and Robespierre. Written by eye-witnesses of the scenes. Translated from the French. Interspersed with biographical notices of prominent characters, and curious anecdotes illustrative of a period without its parallel in history. In two volumes. With two Frontispieces: being photogravure portraits of the Princesse de Lamballe and M. de Beaumarchais.
"The Reign of Terror" is complete in two volumes, demy 8vo, containing together 530 closely-printed pages. The volumes are illustrated with portrait frontispieces of the Princesse de Lamballe and M. de Beaumarchais, reproduced in photogravure from rare and well-executed contemporary engravings. The book is choicely printed on fine paper, and bound in blue cloth extra. Price 16s. net.
The Souvenirs of Jean Leonard,
Coiffeur to Queen Marie Antoinette. Written by himself. Now for the first time translated into English. With Historical and Explanatory Notes by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
This translation of "The Souvenirs of Leonard" is complete in two volumes, demy 8vo, containing together 702 closely-printed pages. The volumes are illustrated with portrait frontispieces of Louis XV. and Marie Antoinette, reproduced in photogravure from exceedingly rare and well-executed contemporary engravings, and the impression of the book is strictly limited to 250 copies, each numbered. The book is choicely printed on fine paper, and bound in blue cloth extra, with appropriate gilt cover design. Price, to subscribers only, Two Guineas net.
An Heroic-Comical Poem, in Twenty-One Cantos, by Arouet de Voltaire. A new and complete Translation into English Verse. Revised, Corrected, and Augmented from the earlier English Translation of W. H. Ireland, and the one attributed to Lady Charleville, with the Variants now for the first time Translated by Ernest Dowson.
In Two Volumes. Foolscap quarto. Price Two Guineas net.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter,
a Roman Knight, in Prose and Verse, with the Fragments recover'd at Belgrade in the year 1698. Made English by Mr Wilson of the Middle Temple, and several others. With a Frontispiece in Photogravure depicting the Feast of Trimalchio.
A verbatim Reprint of the original edition of 170S A.D. Demy 8vo. Price One Guinea net. Self-Seekers. A Novel by Andre Raffalovich. Crown 8vo. Price 4s. net.
The Fool and his Heart ; being the plainly told story of Basil Thimm. A Novel by F. Norreys Connell. Crown 8vo. Price 4s. 6d. net.
Hidden Witchery. Stories by Nigel Tourneur. Illustrated by Will Mein. Crown 8vo. Price 4s. net. 14 Messrs Leonard Smithers & Co.'s Unparalleled Patty : A Tale oi Life in London. By Thomas Gray. Crown 8vo, Price 3 s. 6d. net. Aurora la Cujini. A Realistic Sketch in Seville. By R. B. Cunninghame Graham. With a Frontispiece. Imperial i6mo. Price 5s. net. Literary London. Sketches by W. P. Ryan. Large post 8vo. [Out of print. Alone. A Novel by <l>. Crown 8vo. Price 6s. net. [Out of Print. Last Links with Byron, Shelley, and Keats. By Wm. Graham. Large post 8vo. Price 6s. net. A Chaplet of Love Poems. By Ethel M. de Fonblanque (Mrs Arthur Harter). Large post 8vo. Price 5s. net. A few copies with Frontispiece Portrait of the Author, 7s. 6d. net. Verses at Sunset. By Mrs. E. F. Cunliffe. Large post 8vo. Price 5s. net. {Out of Print. London Fairy Tales. By A. D. Lewis. Illustrated by the Artist. Foolscap 4to. Price 4s. net. List of Publications 15 /rabesques. Impressions of Travel by Cyprian Cope. Demy 8vo. Price 14s. net. (dd Issues. Stories by S. S. Sprigge. Crown 8vo. Price 4s. net. lunger. A Novel translated from the Norwegian of Knut Hamsun by George Egerton. Crown 8vo. Price 3 s. 6d. net. In Preparation. liemoirs of Cardinal Dubois. In Two Volumes. vlemoirs of the Due de Richelieu. In Three Volumes. >laves of Chance. A Novel by Ferrier Langworthy. Circulars of any of the above Books will be sent on application to LEONARD SMITHERS AND CO 5 OLD BOND STREET LONDON W V
