The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. [Complete in 13 Vols.]

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A bright set of the most renowned British quarterly of the 1890s, edited by Henry Harland and, for the first four volumes, Aubrey Beardsley - before, in the fall-out from Oscar Wilde's arrest, he was summarily dismissed part-way through the production of volume five. All of his contributions were removed from this volume, apart from the spine and back cover designs (first used in volume three), which may have been left in error. John Lane, with the assistance of Patten Wilson, took over the art editorial role, and though the risqu nature of the illustrative tone was reduced, the wide variety of decorative design remained. (A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley, Mark Samuels Lasner, 1995)Literary contributors included W.B. Yeats, Richard Garnett, Henry James, Kenneth Grahame, John Buchan, Max Beerbohm, Frederick Rolfe, George Gissing, H.G. Wells, Maurice Baring, Arthur Symons and Charlotte Mew among others.