More than three-fourths of Beardsley's work passed through my hands, and to my knowledge he never used Chinese White. I am the fortunate possessor of the originals of over eighty of his principal drawings. I get applications from would-be purchasers of these from different parts of the world almost daily, but as yet I have withstood all temptations to part with these treasures, which I regard as the chief monument of the greatest, most brilliant, the wittiest, and the most lovable man it has ever been my privilege to know.
JOHN LANE.
THE BODLEY HEAD,
VIGO STREET, W.
July 1903.
CONTENTS
[DEDICATION TO "UNDER THE HILL"]
[UNDER THE HILL]
[THE THREE MUSICIANS]
[THE BALLAD OF A BARBER]
[TRANSLATION OF CATULLUS: CARMEN CI]
[TABLE TALK OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY]
[TWO LETTERS OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY]
ILLUSTRATIONS
[AUBREY BEARDSLEY AT MENTONE, IN THE ROOM IN
WHICH HE DIED] Frontispiece
[THE ABBÉ]
[THE TOILET OF HELEN]
[THE FRUIT BEARERS]
[THE ASCENSION OF SAINT ROSE OF LIMA]
[FOR THE THIRD TABLEAU OF "DAS RHEINGOLD]"
[THE THREE MUSICIANS]
[THE THREE MUSICIANS]
[TAILPIECE TO "THE THREE MUSICIANS"]
[THE COIFFING]
[CUL-DE-LAMPE TO "THE BARBER]"
[ATE ATQUE VALE]
[TITLE-PAGE TO VOL. I. OF "THE YELLOW BOOK"]
[FRONTISPIECE TO "PLAYS" BY JOHN DAVIDSON]
[ARBUSCULA]
[PORTRAIT SKETCHES]
[L'ABBÉ MOURET]