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A Note on Gustave Moreau
Essay
Beardsley Savoy Back Cover
The unframed back cover, in portrait orientation, borrows the image from the title-page. It is a line-block reproduction of a pen-and-ink design. The image shows one figure [a Pierrot] riding a winged horse [a Pegasus] in the centre of the page. The…
The Ballad of a Barber
Poem, quatrain in ABAB rhyme scheme
Leonard Smithers Colophon and Back Cover detail
The colophon is in portrait orientation, boxed in by a double-lined rectangular border. Plain banners run across the bottom and top of the image. Printed at the top is “LEONARD” [caps], and at the bottom is printed “SMITHERS” [caps]. The artwork…
The Three Musicians
poem , 8 quintets in ABABB rhyme scheme
Spanish Ladies
Lyrics of traditional song, with chorus
Free-floating ornament
Man engulfed in flames
Free-floating ornament
Ornament on verso of Table of Contents, centred on a blank page. The image shows a butterfly, whose wings are decorated with stars and hearts, emerging from a chrysalis of flames. Charles Ricketts's initials appear in a small box below the image.
