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BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898) and Mikhail Alekseev

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Moscow: Skorpion, 1912. 204 pp. Square 8vo (225 x 170 mm). + 30 plates. Contemporary gilt-lettered brown boards. Condition: boards rubbed with minor staining, corners bumped; rubber stamp and pen notations to endpaper, rear joint cracked. FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT EARLY RUSSIAN MONOGRAPH ON THE GREAT ENGLISH ILLUSTRATOR. Beardsley's influence on Russian artists of the Silver Age is inestimable. In addition to a fine selection of the drawings, this book contains translations of Robert Ross' and Arthur Simmons' memoirs of the artist, Beardsley's "Venus and Tannhauser," some of his letters, appreciations by Joseph Pennell and Vittorio Pika and a bibliography of the published work. Kuzmin translated Beardsley's poems "The Three Musicians" and "The Ballad of a Barber" into Russian for this collection.

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