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Leonard Smithers Colophon and Back Cover detail

The colophon is in portrait orientation, boxed in by a double-lined rectangular border. Plain banners run across the bottom and top of the image. Printed at the top is “LEONARD” [caps], and at the bottom is printed “SMITHERS” [caps]. The artwork…

The Ballad of a Barber

Poem, quatrain in ABAB rhyme scheme

Beardsley Savoy Back Cover

The unframed back cover, in portrait orientation, borrows the image from the title-page. It is a line-block reproduction of a pen-and-ink design. The image shows one figure [a Pierrot] riding a winged horse [a Pegasus] in the centre of the page. The…