Sale 657: The Joel Harris Collection of Original Illustration Art and Illustrated Books (with additions) (#657) 11/01/2018 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 327 of 360:
Curious volume of alleged Beardsley forgeries  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$132
Estimate:
$10 - $100

Title:
Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley Selected from the Collection Owned by Mr. H. S. Nichols

Author:
Nichols, H. S.

Place:
New York

Publisher:
H. S. Nichols

Date:
1920

Description:

Illustrated with 50 full-page black and white illustrations from the art work of Aubrey Beardsley. (4to) 30½x23 cm (12x9¼"), gilt-decorated and lettered black cloth, top edge gilt. No. 221 of 500 copies. 

Signed by H.S. Nichols on the limitation page. Art experts A. E. Gallatin and Joseph Pennell proclaimed the Beardsley drawings represented here along with the 20 others exhibited at Nichols' bookshop in April 1919 forgeries. "According to Gallatin, Haldane McFall believed them to be the work of 'at least two forgers,' probably Nichols and one of his associates" - Lasner 222.


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Condition:
Spine ends a bit frayed, light wear; bookplate; very good.

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Item number:
294095a
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