Henry Maas, J.L. Duncan and W.G. Good

Aubrey Beardsley is one of the few men whose name has come to represent a whole period of art and letters. His art epitomizes the fin de siècle, its fascination with the curious, the grotesque, the perverse and the exquisitely wrought.

Beardsley's letters, like those of many of his contemporaries, were usually written in haste and without thought for literary posterity. Nevertheless they form an important testimony to the power of his imagination and the mastery of composition and line that coalesced so strikingly in all his mature work.

The popularity of Beardsley's art continues unabated. This collection of all his surviving known letters, written between 1878, when he was only six, and 1898, the year of his early death, represents a monumental record of the life of one of the most remarkable artistic careers.

ISBN 1-870495-07-1   £16.95