Cover design for 'Pierrot's Library'
Print
1895 (designed), 1896 (published)
1895 (designed), 1896 (published)
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Process print on cloth depicting a Pierrot clown selecting books in a library, standing on a wooden step ladder. Design for front cover of 'Pierrot! A Story' by Henry de Vere Stacpoole, the first in a series of four books published by John Lane in London between January and October 1896.
Object details
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| Title | Cover design for 'Pierrot's Library' (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Photo-process print, printed on cloth. |
| Brief description | Print by Aubrey Beardsley, cover design for 'Pierrot's Library'. Britain, 1895. |
| Physical description | Process print on cloth depicting a Pierrot clown selecting books in a library, standing on a wooden step ladder. Design for front cover of 'Pierrot! A Story' by Henry de Vere Stacpoole, the first in a series of four books published by John Lane in London between January and October 1896. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Marks and inscriptions | Pierrot's Library, no. III.
A.T.G. Price, 'Simplicity'.
Published by John Lane, London, 1896.
16mo
(Stamped cloth of back cover removed and mounted) |
| Associated object | E.420-1899 (Set) |
| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpt is from Zatlin, L.G. (2016) Aubrey Beardsley. A catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 172 (Vol. 2):
'...made for a series of four novels published by Lane during 1896. They first appear in Henry de Vere Stacpoole's 'Pierrot!', printed in red and published in January of that year. Subsequent volumes are Mrs Egerton Castle's 'My Little Lady Anne' for which the drawings were printed in blue and published in May; A.T.G. Price's 'Simplicity' for which they were printed in green and published in October; and Vincent Brown's 'My Brother' for which they were printed in brown and published in October'. |
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| Accession number | E.421-1899 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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