The Savoy : an illustrated monthly. No. 3, July 1896

London : Leonard Smithers, 1896. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Aubrey Beardsley (light foxing, spine chipped), pp. 110, occasional light foxing, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Charles Shannon, William Blake, literary contributions by W. B. Yeats, Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Symons, Havelock Ellis and others, a very good copy.

One of the most famous art and literary periodicals of the 1890s, The Savoy was published in only eight issues between January – December 1896. The publisher Leonard Smithers was a close friend of Oscar Wilde and the editor Arthur Symons was an English poet. The Savoy was founded as a competitor to The Yellow Book and named after the glamorous London hotel, frequented by Oscar Wilde, who was at the time imprisoned for ‘gross indecency’ with young males.