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London: Leonard Smithers & Co,, 1898. Featuring some of Beardsley's last completed illustrations First Beardsley edition, deluxe issue, number 79 of 100 copies printed on japon paper, specially bound in full vellum, and featuring an extra suite of five plates with larger versions of Beardsley's vignettes. In November 1897, Beardsley was commissioned to produce 24 illustrations for this edition of Jonson's Volpone, including a frontispiece, decorative initials, and a front cover design. In the event, he could only complete the cover design, the frontispiece, and six vignettes before his death on 16 March 1898. This was, however, a project that Beardsley was passionate about, writing "I am making pictures of Ben Jonson's adorable and astonishing Volpone" and "I carry Volpone about with me from dawn to dawn and dream of nothing else". He considered his illustration for the frontispiece ("Volpone Adoring His Treasure") as "one of the strongest things I have ever done" (cited in Nelson, p. 163). Large…
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Volpone: or the Fox.: A new edition with a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan and a frontispiece, five initial letters and a cover design illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley, together with an [sic] eulogy of the artist by Robert Ross.
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Ben Jonson His Volpone: or The Foxe
by JONSON, Ben. (Aubrey Beardsley)
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London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Hardcover. Fine. New edition with a critical essay by Vincent O'Sullivan and a eulogy by Robert Ross. Front and back cover designs, frontispiece, and five initial letters by Beardsley. Large octavo. Blue-green cloth gilt. Tiny nick on front fly, still fine. Copy number 290 of 1000 copies of the trade issue. *MSL 129*.
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Volpone: or the Foxe...A New Edition. With a Critical Essay by Vincent O'Sullivan...Together with an Eulogy of the Artist by Robert Ross
by (Beardsley, Aubrey) Jonson, Ben
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New York: John Lane, 1898. First Beardsley Edition, copy #393 of 1000 for England and America. Frontispiece, Five Large Initial Letters and Vignettes, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Original aquamarine cloth with elaborately gilt-stamped front cover after Beardsley's design. Fine bright copy. Bookplate of Maurice Wertheim. In open faced cloth slipcase. Beardsley, Aubrey. First Beardsley Edition, copy #393 of 1000 for England and America. Frontispiece, Five Large Initial Letters and Vignettes, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Beardsley's Volpone. One of Beardsley's consummate works, published here for the first time after his death. Ross's warm appreciation of Beardsley is an essential piece of Beardsleyana.
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Ben Ionson His Volpone: or The Foxe; Together With An Eulogy Of The Artist By Robert Ross
by Beardsley, Aubrey (Illustrator)
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London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. New Edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's gilt stamped teal pictorial cloth designed by Beardsley. Very good. Beardsley, Aubrey. 193 pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 33 of 1000, includes one of the extra photogravure plates that was issued with the one of 100 copies that included a suite of the plates in a larger format, and is noted on p.147. Frontispiece, five large historiated initial capitals and vignettes by Beardsley. With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan, cover design by Beardsley. Beardsley lived only long enough to complete the five initials, the frontispiece and the cover design. GALLATIN pp. 69-70. LASNER 129. Uncut and unopened, spine slightly darkened, and head of p.147 roughly opened. Spine rubbed head and foot.
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Volpone: Or the Foxe
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London: Leonard Smithers. 1898. "new edition". NF, small bumps and some ep foxing; Limited ed., unnumbered 1/1000; Beardsley cover & 5 plates. .
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Volpone: or The Foxe. With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan together with an eulogy of the artist by Robert Ross
by (Beardsley, Aubrey) Jonson, Ben
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London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. No. 22 of 1000 copies on Art Paper. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt with Beardsley's designs on upper and lower covers, slight cover wear, else fine and attractive. No. 22 of 1000 copies on Art Paper. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley. 1 vols. 4to. Beardsley's Last Book. Beardsley had intended a series of 24 drawings for Jonson's Venetian comedy, but died before completing it, at the age of 26.
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Volpone: or The Fox
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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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Volpone: or The Foxe
by Jonson, Ben; O'Sullivan, Vincent (essay)
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New York: John Lane Company, 1898. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket. Illustrated by Beardsley, Aubrey. Pages bright and clean except for a few small handling prints to the initial leaves, toning at the endpapers, and a touch of dust staining along the head edges; binding square and secure, full blue cloth turned inward at corners and spine ends with some small spots of fraying just starting, some light rubbing along spine sides and edges, a few faint droplet stains in the gilding on the front and light spots of surface rubbing on the rear, otherwise beautifully kept. xlv, 193pp. Numbered 211 of 1000 copies on Art Paper (an additional 100 copies were prepared on Imperial Japanese Vellum and included an extra set of large photogravure reproductions of the frontis and capitals; Beardsley also designed the front cover and had intended to illustrate the text with additional drawings but untimely passed).; 4to.
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Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
by Jonson, Ben (illus. Aubrey Beardsley, intro. Vincent O'Sullivan)
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London: Leonard Smithers & Co, 1898. limited. hardback. Near Fine, unnumbered, original blue cloth, blocked in gilt; text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked; some foxing to endpapers, otherwise and excellent copy of a beautiful and unusual book.. 4to (300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_). One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or The Foxe. With A Critical Essay On The Author By Vincent O'Sullivan Together With An Eulogy Of The Artist By Robert Ross Just under full-size quarto.
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VOLPONE: "THE FOX'
by BEN JONSON; AUBREY BEARDSLEY, ILLUS.
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FINE-VERY FINE.BEARDSLEY WAS COMMISSIONED TO ILLUSTRATE THIS WORK; HE DIED BEFORE HE FINISHED ALL REQUESTED PLATES. BEARDSLEY WAS PASSIONATE ABPOUT THIS PROJECT; HE SAID' "I CARRY VOLPONE WITH ME FROM DAWN TO DAWN AND DREAM OF NOTHING ELSE". HE CONSIDERED THE FRONTISPIECE "ONE OF THE STRONGEST THINGS I HAVE EVER DONE".THE BOOK,WRITTEN IN GERMAN, IS PRISTINELY CLEAN; BINDING IS TIGHT; BOOK IS STRAIGHT AND SOLID. PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND GILT COVER ABSOLUTELY GLEAMS.TOP EDGE GILT.A SPECTACULAR VOLUME FOR THE COLLECTOR BUT ESPECIALLY FOR BEARDSLEY AFFICIONADOS.
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Volpone: Or The Foxe
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John Lane, 1898-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. John Lane 1898 #169 of 1000 in gilt decorated blue cloth beveled boards, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Top edge uncut. Shows scattered light foxing. Tight and unmarked. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.
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Ben Jonson, His Volpone: or the Foxe
by Jonson, Ben; Vincent O'Sullivan; Robert Ross
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New York: John Lane, 1898. A New Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Aubrey Beardsley. Published by John Lane, New York, 1898, being the First Beardsley Edition (title page says "A New Edition"). Published a year following his death. Copy #245 of 1000 copies, printed and published for the U.S. and England. Cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, being in gilt to front cover, edges gilt-ruled, and board edges beveled. Big, tall, sturdy quarto format, moderate rubbing to extremities, scuffing to tips, rubbing to joints, edges. Very lightly soiling to endpapers, heavy toning only to first and final endpaper, else clean and unmarked but for previous owner's inscription. Augmented with a fine, involved frontispiece, five large historiated initial letters, and a vignette tot title page. Considered roundly to be one of Aubrey Beardsley's finest works, he having just completed the art-editing and illustration of The Yellow Book, which ran from 1895-1897. Vincent…
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Volpone.: Autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von Margarete Mauthner.
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1910. Berlin, (Drugulin, Leipzig, für) Bruno Cassirer, 1910. 4°. XXI, 163 S. Mit 1 Frontispiz und 5 verzierten Initialen von Aubrey Beardsley. Goldgeprägtes Orig.-Leinen (leicht bestossen und berieben). Eines von 600 numerierten Exemplaren aus einer Auflage von 650. - Für diese Ausgabe wurden die Initialen, das Titelblatt und der Buchdeckel benutzt, die Aubrey Beardsley für die englische bei Smithers 1893 erschienene Ausgabe gezeichnet hat. Es sind seine letzten Arbeiten. - Minimal gebräunt, Kanten gering berieben.
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Ben Jonson's Volpone: A Loveless Comedy in 3 Acts, Freely Adapted by Stefan Zweig
by JONSON, Ben; Stefan Zweig, trans. into German; Ruth Langner, trans. back into English; Aubrey Beardsley, illus
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New York: Viking Press, 1928. First Thus. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's cloth in light tan decorative dust jacket printed in brown and orange; [6],187pp.; frontispiece and decorations throughout. Jacket extremities gently rubbed, small chip at spine crown, spine a bit toned, else Near Fine in Very Good or better jacket. "A New York Theatre Guild Production" - upper jacket panel. A modern adaptation of Jonson's 17th-c. comedy; this version was later adapted for George Antheil's 1953 opera.
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Ben Jonson's Volpone: A Loveless Comedy in 3 Acts, Freely Adapted by Stefan Zweig
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Viking, 1928. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. . Very good condition./Very good dust jacket. . B&W Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley Not price clipped $2.00. No previous owner's marks. No underlining or marks in text. A very nice copy.
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VOLPONE
by Johnson, Ben; Zweig, Stefan [Adaptation]; Langner, Ruth [Translator]; Beardsley, Aubrey [Iluustrat
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New York: The Viking Press, 1928. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. 10vo, 187 pages; VG/VG-; dust jacket is in a mylar covering, has price uncut '$2.00', has minor wear along the top and bottom edges, with several small closed tears, has mild chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and on the fore edge corners, has discoloration and blotching along the spine; binding has minimal wear along the top and bottom edges; pages have dust build up along the top edge; illustrated endpapers; shelved under Front Counter. 1313474. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Volpone: A Loveless Comedy in 3 Acts, Freely Adapted by Stefan Zweig
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New York: Viking, 1928. Hardcover. Third printing. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Front fly neatly clipped else very fine in very fine, patterned glassine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.
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Ben Jonsons "Volpone". Eine lieblose Komödie in drei Akten
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Potsdam, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1926. Halbleder, gebunden; türkis, braun und hellbraun marmoriertes Überzugspapier, Rückengoldprägung, brauner Kopfschnitt / Anz. Seiten: 148 / 12,2 x 17,6 cm / mit 6 Bildern nach Aubrey Beardsley / Zustand: gut, leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Rücken etwas aufgehellt, Ex Libris auf Innendeckel Versandkosten innerhalb der Schweiz: CHF 3.00
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Ben Jonson's Volpone: A Loveless Comedy in 3 Acts, with Decorations by Aubrey Beardsley
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NY: Viking Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1928. Third Printing. Hardcover. Some chipping to the dust jacket, rather large piece missing from the bottom of the spine and the back panel and back flap had been torn, separated from the rest of jacket. This is now tape repaired with a piece of archival tape. ; Illus. , jacket now in a clear protector ; 187 pages .
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Volpone. Eine lieblose Komödie in drei Akten. Frei bearbeitet von Stefan Zweig. (6.-8. Tsd.). (= Die Liebhaberbibliothek).
by Jonson, Ben - Stefan Zweig (Bearb.).
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Potsdam, Gustav Kiepenheuer 1927.. Kl.-8°. 148 S. Mit Front. u. 5 Abb. nach Aubrey Beardsley. Flex., blauer OLederband m. goldgepr. Rü.titel. Einbd. leicht berieben, insges. schönes u. gut erh. Ex. Klawiter 126. Die erste Ausgabe dieser freien Bearbeitung durch Stefan Zweig erschien 1925 bei Bloch in Berlin.
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