The Eighteen Nineties: a review of art and ideas at the close of the nineteenth century by Holbrook, Jackson - 1976

Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1976. Originally published in 1913. . Illustrated Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. British Literature.

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Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0391005227 . Tight clean unmarked book with illustrations; in lightly rubbed DJ ; 304 pages; The classic commentary on a decade remarkable for its creativity, style and flamboyance in a brand new edition. <P>With great insight, Holbrook Jackson brings alive and interprets the creative expressions of this vibrant decade. Each chapter deals with a leading figure, style or trend, capturing with succinct and fluent prose the diverse personalities who held the stage. Jackson shows how it was a period of renaissance as much as of decadence - and as such became the threshold to the modern era. <P>With 24 illustrations on separate coated stock, and index. <P>6 x 9 format. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 304 pages, very good clothbacked decorative boards; yellow dj spine faded and chipped affecting the title. American issue: British sheets with a Knopf title-page. Illustrated with 26 plates [ 2 new to this edition] by such as Aubrey Beardsley, William Nicholson, William Rothenstein, Max Beerbohm, Walter Crane, S. H. Sime, Phil May. "The decade began with a dash for life and ended with a tretreat - but not defeat. It was the old battle between heterodoxy and orthodoxy, materialist and mystic, Christian and Pagan, but fought from a great variety of positions - Introduction."

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