COURTESY OF LowCountryBookstore: Published to celebrate the centenary of Beardsley"s tragically early death, at the age of just twenty-five, this new book traces his extraordinary life and hectic career through a detailed exploration of his notorious drawings. Beardsley"s unique and celebrated oeuvre is considered alongside the work of contemporaries and friends such as Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, Max Beerbohm, Charles Ricketts and W. B. Yeats and is set against the vibrant - if at times shady - artistic, literary and social life of fin-de-siècle London, Dieppe and Paris. In addition to Beardsley"s startling designs, reproduced here from original drawings and from rare early editions of his work, the book includes examples of the artist"s innovative prints, posters and book bindings and reveals, too, a gallery of portraits and photographs from the fascinating decade of the "naughty Nineties". (From front flap of dust jacket.)