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EGAN, Beresford and Brian de Shane. DE SADE. Being a series of wounds, inflicted with brush and pen, upon Sadistic Wolves garbed in Masochist's Wool. Published for the first time by The Fortune Press, London [n.d., c. 1930]. Limited edition, 1/1600 copies. 4to., plum cloth, lettered in gilt, illustrated in a decadent style. Ink ownership; ex-library, no external marks. Cloth faded from sun, especially at spine and edges; touch of wear to heel. Internally, clean and tight, with a slight nick to one fore-edge. A fourteen page essay with seventeen illustrations. A very good copy.
Verlag: London: Fortune Press, 1929
Anbieter: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
The edition of 1600, unnumbered and not signed, with 12 plates, including one in colour, and an illustrated titlepage, all by Beresford Egan. Original orange boards with orange buckram spine. Covers somewhat stained, as are the endpapers, corners very rubbed. Beresford Egan's work was highly influenced by Aubrey Beardsley and many of his illustrations were in an erotic vein. He was for many years an exponents of art déco. His career graph was phenomenal, beginning with The Sink of Solitude, the dazzling debut which was a satire on the banning of Radclyffe Hall's controversial novel The Well Of Loneliness (1928). That book marked the beginning of a prolific phase of around six years during which he created numerous illustrations and book covers for works by Aleister Crowley, Pierre Louÿs and Charles Baudelaire . Book.
Verlag: Fortune Press, London, 1929
Anbieter: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, USA
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leather_bound. Egan, Beresford (illustrator). First edition. Seven leaves of text, "In Defence Of Sadism" by Drian De Shane. 30 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 38 of 100 signed by Beresford and De Shane, and includes the suppressed plate "The Moralist." Beresford's art was highly influenced by Aubrey Beardsley, and his erotic images reflect that. Although London born he spent time in South Africa. and served as a cartoonist for the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg. He was one of the few original British exponents of Art Deco. With Barry Moser bookplate, and additional one front cover paste down. Spine slightly darkened. Orig. brown niger, gilt lettered front cover and spine. Near fine.