THE BUTTERFLY. Vol. I.
Grant Richards, [1890's].
iv, 278p. Illustrated in black and white by Maurice Greiffenhagen, Oscar Eckhardt. Raven-Hill, Paul Renouard, J. G. Sullivan, Edgar Wilson, J. Pennell, etc. Bound in full white cloth with title and butterfly designs on spine and upper cover. Light foxing to endpapers, else quite clean and bright. Item #24294
Contributors include; Max Beerbohm, S. H. Sime, L. Raven-Hill, Gilbert James, Dion C. Calthorp, Laurence Housman, Tom Gallon, Oscar Eckhardt, Norman Gale, J. Pennell, Nora Hopper, Arthur Morrison, Baron Corvo, Barry Pain, etc.
"The enterprise was magnificent, the production excellent throughout. It was too good for the public. In a delightful introductory 'apology' to the first number the editor stated frankly that they had no 'mission'. But, unconsciously perhaps, they most certainly had. Their mission was to try to convince the dear old British public that a magazine need not necessarily be exactly like all its predecessors, that it was possible to be frivolous and light hearted and yet produce excellent work, and that a good drawing was worth printing, even if it had no joke or quotation from a story beneath it... From this point of view it is undoubtedly the most artistic periodical publication we have ever had." (Thorpe. English Illustration: The Nineties. p/. 173-4).
Krishnamurti. Supplement. No. 34.
Price: $450.00