The Yellow Book (magazine of the 1890s)

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The Yellow Book (magazine of the 1890s) Edited by Henry Harland and Aubrey Beardsley, "The Yellow Book" was published by Elkin Mathews and John Lane beginning in 1894.

There were 13 issues total, with the publication coming to an end in 1897. Beardsley was fired after the fourth volume.

08/10/2010

Tutte le copertine e le illustrazioni che Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) realizzò per le riviste 'The Savoy' e 'The Yellow Book'. 'THE SAVOY' (1896) Rivista culturale pensata dall'editore Smithers sul modello di 'The Yellow Book' e in concorrenza con essa. Non a caso l'editore chiese la collaborazio...

07/05/2010

"I am sure you will be vastly interested to hear that Harland and myself are about to start a new literary and artistic Quarterly. The title has already been registered at Stationers' Hall and on the scroll of fame. It is "The Yellow Book".--Aubrey Beardsley in a letter to Robbie Ross, January 1894

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"The aim . . . of "The Yellow Book" is to depart as far as may be from the bad old traditions of periodical literature, and to provide an Illustrated Magazine which shall be beautiful as a piece of bookmaking."--Publisher's announcement, March 1894

Volume XIII and last.
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Volume XIII and last.

Volume XII.
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Volume XII.

Volume XI.
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Volume XI.

Volume X.
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Volume X.

Volume IX.
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Volume IX.

Volume VIII.
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Volume VIII.

Volume VII.
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Volume VII.

Volume VI.
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Volume VI.

Volume V.
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Volume V.

Volume IV. This was the last Beardsley cover.
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Volume IV. This was the last Beardsley cover.

Volume III cover.
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Volume III cover.

19/04/2010

"In one of the densest and soupiest and yellowest of all London's infernalest fogs, Aubrey Beardsley and I sat together the whole afternoon . . . We declared to each other that we thought it quite a pity and a shame that London publishers should feel themselves longer under any obligation to refuse any of our good manuscripts . . . And then and there we decided to have a magazine of our own."--Henry Harland, 1894

Cover of Volume 1.
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Cover of Volume 1.

Title Page design for Volume II, drawn by Aubrey Beardsley.
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Title Page design for Volume II, drawn by Aubrey Beardsley.

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"The Yellow Book" differed from other periodicals in that it was issued clothbound, made a strict distinction between the literary and art contents, did not include serial fiction, and contained no advertisements except publishers' lists.

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