BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. – Arthur SYMONS (editor). The Savoy, an Illustrated Quarterly. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. 8 vols. [all published.] 4to (258 x 193mm.) Numerous plates, decorations and illustrations in the text by Beardsley and others, advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional spotting.) Original publisher’s pictorial pink boards for volumes 1 and 2 (some loss to spine panel of volume 1, spine ends worn, toned), volumes 3-8 in later yellow cloth (finger-marked, reference labels to spines), with original blue wrappers bound-in (ink reference numbers to upper wrappers). Note: a complete set. The journal was named after the hotel that Oscar Wilde used for his trysts. It was a deliberate response to the prosecution of Wilde and included contributions from many significant writers of the time. Provenance: Hove Public Library (labels to pastedowns) (8).