The Studio. An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art

Holme (Charles) & White (Gleeson) editors

The Studio. An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art,

vols. 1 - 119, (1893-1940), numerous plates and illustrations after contemporary artists including: Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, William Nicholson, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Burne-Jones; the majority in the publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt, 25 in later cloth bindings, 8 of the nos. in the original wrappers, some duplicate nos., also with two editions of the series index, 11 later bound vols. not in sequence and 11 nos. in wrappers;

[with] 41 vols. of The Studio special numbers and publications, including Winter numbers for 1896 - 1902; mixed bindings including cloth or original wrappers, some with loss to wrappers or text block split;

occasional tears, browning and spotting, contemporary ownership inscriptions, and library stamps, 4to (large quantity) [not subject to return]

***The Studio was technically groundbreaking in its adoption of the photomechanical process block for the reproduction of art. It appealed to bourgeois tastes, favouring the Arts and Crafts movement over academicism or the avant-garde.