13 vols. (Vols. I-XIII, all published). (8vo) 20x16 cm. (8x6½"), original pictorial yellow cloth. After Volume 2 Elkin Mathews no longer appears in the title page imprint. First Editions
Writings and illustrations by eminent artists and authors of the day, including Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, Baron Corvo, D.Y. Cameron, W.B. Yeats, Muirhead Bone, H.G. Wells, Evelyn Sharp, Richard Le Galliene, John Lavery, Henry James, Walter Crane, John Sargent, Anatole France, Joseph Pennell, Frederic Leighton, Laurence Housman, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, et al. Ownership signatures on front free endpapers. Included with the lot is "The Yellow Book: A Selection," 1950, in dust jacket.
Condition:
Some rubbing and wear to coves, spines darkened somewhat, a bit of fraying to ends; some light foxing and aging within, offset to most endpapers, stains in a few volumes, very good overall, contents unopened.