AN ISSUE OF FIVE DRAWINGS ILLUSTRATIVE OF JUVENAL AND LUCIAN

London: [Leonard Smithers], 1905. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, illus. First Edition. Folio. Paper wraps. One of 120 numbered sets, drawn from the book, but not included in the edition, as being too free in design for general circulation. "These drawings are printed from the original blocks...and may be regarded...as Proofs." Cover chipped and separated, o/w VG. Scarce. Galletin 30; Samuels-Lasner 149. Item #38943

Five drawings, three illustrating Juvenal's "Sixth Sense," and two prepared for Lucian's True History (#78). All were reprinted in "Uncollected Work." Reade and Dickinson variously date this as 1897 and 1899 as well as 1905 as noted by Gallatin.

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