A BOOK OF FIFTY DRAWINGS

Beardsley's subversive illustrations became synonymous with decadence: He delighted in the erotic, shocking audiences with his bizar re sense of humor and fascination with the grotesque. His work was deemed too scandalous by many publishers of the period, but found a suitably unseemly home with the notorious Leonard C. Smithers (1861-1907). This book, published 1897, is as much a historic docum ent as it is a beautiful introduction to Beardsley's art.