{"id":14102,"date":"2013-08-03T02:15:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14102"},"modified":"2023-12-17T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T13:49:08","slug":"ads-for-the-yellow-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/08\/03\/ads-for-the-yellow-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Ads for The Yellow Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yb1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/yb1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More Beardsley ephemera, and more from the recently upgraded <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.nypl.org\/search\/index?filters%5BnamePart_mtxt_s%5D%5B%5D=Beardsley,%20Aubrey%20(1872-1898)&amp;keywords=&amp;layout=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYPL Digital Collections<\/a>. These US ads for <em>The Yellow Book<\/em> date from late 1894 to early 1895, a couple of months before Oscar Wilde was arrested and Aubrey Beardsley had to leave the magazine despite having no connection with Wilde&#8217;s activities.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s most interesting for me about these ads is the small vignettes, two of which I&#8217;m sure I haven&#8217;t seen before. This suggests that there&#8217;s still material in the pages of <em>The Yellow Book<\/em> which has been overlooked despite the many books which collect Beardsley&#8217;s art. The Internet Archive has several volumes of the magazine but I&#8217;ve been daunted in the past by its thousands of pages of not-so-interesting Victorian prose. (<em>The Savoy<\/em> was the superior publication where quality of writing was concerned.) Maybe it&#8217;s time to take a deep breath and dive in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yb2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/yb2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yb3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/yb3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yb4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/yb4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yb5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/yb5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-aubrey-beardsley-archive\/\">The Aubrey Beardsley archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Beardsley ephemera, and more from the recently upgraded NYPL Digital Collections. These US ads for The Yellow Book date from late 1894 to early 1895, a couple of months before Oscar Wilde was arrested and Aubrey Beardsley had to leave the magazine despite having no connection with Wilde&#8217;s activities. What&#8217;s most interesting for me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/08\/03\/ads-for-the-yellow-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ads for The Yellow Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,50,43],"tags":[94,116,123,493,494],"class_list":["post-14102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-beardsley","category-magazines","tag-aubrey-beardsley","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-salome","tag-the-savoy","tag-the-yellow-book"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Fs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}