Aubrey Beardsley and The Yellow Book. Published by John Lane, 1903. First Edition. Pp, 40. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, lettered in red.

Illustrated with seven full-page illustrations by Beardsley.

Published at The Bodley Head by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, The Yellow Book was a leading journal of the British 1890s. The Yellow Book owed much of its reputation to Aubrey Beardsley (its first art editor), who, despite John Lane’s remonstrations, repeatedly attempted to shock public opinion.