Pixie bookplate
Now I find a trace of good game in the dark forest of "Ex-Libris" as you see--
...Miss Yeats herself occasionally turns to the fashioning with her in this, and other branches of pictorial work, being her sister-in-law Mrs Jack Yeats, Miss Eileen Greig, Miss Maunsel, and Miss Pamela Coleman-Smith. Of this quartet the first evinces a notably rare gift for composition, although in actual draughtsmanship she is hardly equal of Miss Maunsel, whose lines are something finely graceful. But Miss Coleman-Smith is more original than either of these two, and at least one of her ex-libris drawings will some day, no doubt, be widely famous among collectors. It depicts an actress, stepping from the wings on to the stage, part of the auditorium being also shown; and the artist has really captured a certain quota of just what Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec were prone to miss in their pictures of this sort: that very sublte beauty and glamour which, in the theatre, lie in the contradistinction between the mass of shadowy darkness on the one hand, and the tiny glimpose of bright fairyland on the other... -- W.G. Blaikie-Murdoch in "The Cuala Press and Its Bookplates"( The Bookplate Booklet, 1919 May issue. p.15)
Of course I'm now doing a thorough research for Pixie-bookplates. But no luck yet.
By the way I picked up an intresting info during the hunting. From "The Bookplate Booklet" 1919 October issue -
"Mr A.E.Gallain, the collector and author of the monumental Iconography of Beardsley, published in 1902, Aubrey Beardsley as a Designer of Bookplates, a small but charming little booklet which re-published an article originally contributed to The Reader.
"A list of Bookplates by Aubrey Beardsley
"1894. 8. Mr Aleister Crowley -- Drawing of Madame Rejane in Empire dress, holding fan. Vide Later Work, page 57, adapted."
Which seems this.
http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/doll/files/mmerejane.jpg
It's very interesting Crowley could order a bookplate from Beardlsley in 1894. He was barely 19 years old.
