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Sorry this is an off-topic but I have to report this
I could trace the source of the info of "The Bookplate Booklet". The Gallatin source they quote is this --
-- Gleeson White, in the essay I have already referred to, also speaks of book-plates designed by Beardsley forAleister Crowley and Gerald Kelly, adding that they have not been reproduced— probably using this word as meaning published. A short time ago I came into possession of these plates, and find they are reproductions of the portrait of Madame Rejane drawn by Beardsley in 1893, and reproduced on page 78 of "The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley'' (1899) and of the drawing representing Flosshilde (1896). To these drawings have been added, with a pen, "Ex Libris Aleister Crowley'' and "Ex Libris Gerald Kelly".--
Gallatin, A.E. 'Aubrey Beardsley as a Designer of Book-Plates', (London : Elkin Matthews, 1902), p10-11.
And the Gleeson White source Gallatin quotes is this --
--Aubrey Beardsley designed a few book plates ; how many is not quite clear, for certain so-called ex libris, surreptitiously offered for sale, look like " fakes,'' that is, like drawings made into bookplates by the addition of a printed name, and not really designed for that purpose. One taken from a Morte d'Arthur border, and another from a Savoy prospectus, may be authorised, but they are not true ex libris. The first authentic example, one for Dr. J. Lumsden Proper! (whose famous collection of miniatures was lately dispersed), appeared in No. I of the "Yellow Book." A reproduction (if a plate for Miss Olive distance was given in a recent number of The Sketch. Those for Aleister Crowley and Gerald Kelly have not, so far, been reproduced. The so-called " Beardsley's own book-plate," reproduced in the " Fifty Drawings," completes the list. That the latter could ever be used, except in "top-shelf" volumes, is doubtful ; it is an unhappy instance of the perverted fancy which the greatest admirers of the genius of the wonderful black-and-white artist can but regret.--
White, Gleeson. 'Modern Book-Plates & Their Designers' Winter number of "The Studio", 1898-9, p.40
Now what we can safely assert is that the Crowley's "book-plate designed by Beardsley" was based on the portrait of Madame Rejane (1893) but that does not mean it was made in 1893 or 94. In 1898 Gleeson White recognized it as an authentic book-plate designed by Beardsley. We know Crowley met Leonard Smithers as early as in 1897 and might have ordered Beardsleyan book-plate at that time.
So much for Crowley and Beardsley. In two or three days I think I can show another very rare PCS works!
I could trace the source of the info of "The Bookplate Booklet". The Gallatin source they quote is this --
-- Gleeson White, in the essay I have already referred to, also speaks of book-plates designed by Beardsley forAleister Crowley and Gerald Kelly, adding that they have not been reproduced— probably using this word as meaning published. A short time ago I came into possession of these plates, and find they are reproductions of the portrait of Madame Rejane drawn by Beardsley in 1893, and reproduced on page 78 of "The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley'' (1899) and of the drawing representing Flosshilde (1896). To these drawings have been added, with a pen, "Ex Libris Aleister Crowley'' and "Ex Libris Gerald Kelly".--
Gallatin, A.E. 'Aubrey Beardsley as a Designer of Book-Plates', (London : Elkin Matthews, 1902), p10-11.
And the Gleeson White source Gallatin quotes is this --
--Aubrey Beardsley designed a few book plates ; how many is not quite clear, for certain so-called ex libris, surreptitiously offered for sale, look like " fakes,'' that is, like drawings made into bookplates by the addition of a printed name, and not really designed for that purpose. One taken from a Morte d'Arthur border, and another from a Savoy prospectus, may be authorised, but they are not true ex libris. The first authentic example, one for Dr. J. Lumsden Proper! (whose famous collection of miniatures was lately dispersed), appeared in No. I of the "Yellow Book." A reproduction (if a plate for Miss Olive distance was given in a recent number of The Sketch. Those for Aleister Crowley and Gerald Kelly have not, so far, been reproduced. The so-called " Beardsley's own book-plate," reproduced in the " Fifty Drawings," completes the list. That the latter could ever be used, except in "top-shelf" volumes, is doubtful ; it is an unhappy instance of the perverted fancy which the greatest admirers of the genius of the wonderful black-and-white artist can but regret.--
White, Gleeson. 'Modern Book-Plates & Their Designers' Winter number of "The Studio", 1898-9, p.40
Now what we can safely assert is that the Crowley's "book-plate designed by Beardsley" was based on the portrait of Madame Rejane (1893) but that does not mean it was made in 1893 or 94. In 1898 Gleeson White recognized it as an authentic book-plate designed by Beardsley. We know Crowley met Leonard Smithers as early as in 1897 and might have ordered Beardsleyan book-plate at that time.
So much for Crowley and Beardsley. In two or three days I think I can show another very rare PCS works!