Aubrey Beardsley

"This book...provides the public with the opportunity to see virtually the entire collection of Beardsley's mature work, culled from a wide variety sources, thus enabling the collector to distinguish between the genuine Beardsley and the hundreds of spurious pastiches attributed to him...Perhaps the key to his great popularity is his consumate ability with line and shape and his use of space. He did not need to express himself in colour - his defiant personality projected itself in black and white, not in three dimensional realism."