Cloth binding for ‘The Yellow Book,’ 13

1895

Yellow cloth with heavy blocking

8¼ x 6½ inches

This is the final issue of the magazine, and Reed bows out with a dynamic, abstract composition of two cockerels fighting – an apt visual summary of the publication’s robustly confrontational stance.

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