The Savoy. Nineties Experiment

WEINTRAUB, Stanley, (Edited with Introduction by)

Published by Philadelphia & London. The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1966

About this Item

4to. 26 cm, xliv,294p., with 25 illustrations (including cover & jacket) primarily by Aubrey Beardsley, appendices, white linen backed pictorial cloth, jacket has three inch clean cuts, bearly visible, else fine in very good to fine jacket (ds1). ~ "The Savory" was a review which ran from No. I, January 1896 to No. 8, December 1898 as a representative of the 1890's Decadent Movement. Its eight issues contained essays, fiction and poetry by illustrious authors, including W.B. Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbaum and Joseph Conrad. The magazine was centered around the art of Aubrey Beardsley with the editor of the magazine being Arthur Symons (1865 1945). Stanley Weintraub has reproduced five of the eight issues to show the themes and diverse literary works of the era. The Appendices reproduce the literary and art contents of the eight issues of "The Savoy".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Savoy. Nineties Experiment
• Publisher: Philadelphia & London. The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1966