Sunday, January 14, 2018

The Yellow Book (1894 - 1897)

                                   Cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley
                                                    Source: Wikimedia Commons

 Wikipedia:
The Yellow Book was a British quarterly literary periodical that was published in London from 1894 to 1897. It was published by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland. The periodical was priced at 5 shillings and lent its name to the "Yellow Nineties", referring to the decade of its operation.
It was a leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. Aubrey Beardsley was its first art editor, and he has been credited with the idea of the yellow cover, with its association with illicit French fiction of the period. He obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert, and Philip Wilson Steer. The literary content was no less distinguished; authors who contributed were: Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, "Baron Corvo", Ernest Dowson, George Gissing, Sir Edmund Gosse, Henry James, Richard Le Gallienne, Charlotte Mew, Arthur Symons, H. G. Wells, William Butler Yeats and Frank Swettenham.

 University of Heidelberg Browse Page

 Vol. 1 April 1894 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 2 July 1894 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 3 October 1894 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 4 January 1895 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 5 April 1895 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 6 July 1895 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 7 October 1895 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 8 January 1896 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 9 April 1896 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 10 July 1896 - Table of Contents (with downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 11 October 1896 - Missing Volume - Available Online Here

 Vol. 12 January 1897 - Table of Contents (w downloadable PDFs)

 Vol. 13 April 1897 - Table of Contents (w downloadable PDFs)
The U Penn Online Books (Serials page) for the Yellow Book gives the following listing for persistent archives of complete issues:
Additional copies may be found and downloaded at Archive.org, as follows:













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