Chapter IV: A Platonic Lament. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

V. Enter Herodias (two states, the first cancelled). (The drawing
in its original state the property of Herbert J. Pollit Esq.)
A proof of this drawing in its first state, now the property of
Frank Harris, Esq., is inscribed by the artist on the left-hand
top corner:

"Because one figure was undressed
This little drawing was suppressed.
It was unkind, but never mind,
Perhaps it all was for the best."

VI. The Eyes of Herod. (Note one of Herod's white peacocks.) (Property
of John Lane, Esq.)

VII. The Stomach Dance. (The author makes Salome dance, barefooted, the
Dance of the Seven Veils.) (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

VIII. The Toilette of Salome. Substituted for a former drawing of the
same subject, printed in two states but withheld, the second state
subsequently published in "Early Work" (Property of Robert Ross,
Esq.)

IX. The Dancer's Reward. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

X. The Climax. This is a revised and simpler version of the design
which had appeared in the first number of _The Studio_.

Tailpiece. The corpse of Salome being coffined in a puff-powder
box. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

NOS. I., IV., V., AND VI. of the above contain caricatures of
Oscar Wilde.

XI. Small design, printed in gold on cloth, front cover of "Salome";
another, consisting of an elaboration of the artist's device,
for the under side of cover.

XII. Study of a design of peacock feathers for cover of "Salome," not
used at the time, but subsequently reproduced for the first time
in facsimile in "Early Work," and again as an illustration
following the title-page in reissue of "Salome" (John Lane, 1907);
also in gold on light green cloth for ornament of the binding,
and in olive green on orange-red for the paper cap. Also in gold
on blue cloth for binding of "Under the Hill," 1904. (Property of
John Lane, Esq.) This (1907) edition, moreover, contains the two
illustrations suppressed in the original edition, viz., "John and
Salome" (Property of John Lane, Esq.), now placed in order as
No. 8, and "The Toilet of Salome, II.," now placed as No. 13
(Property of John Lane, Esq.) and an original title-page.

XIII. The Salome drawings were reproduced the actual size of the
originals, and published in a portfolio. In this was included a
design of Salome seated upon a settee. Described in "Early Work"
as "Maitresse d'Orchestre." (John Lane, 1907.)

87. DANCER, WITH DOMINO. (The property of His Honour Judge Evans.)

88. PLAYS, BY JOHN DAVIDSON. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. Design on
frontispiece to, containing portrait caricatures of Sir Augustus
Harris, and Oscar Wilde and Henry Harland, black and white; the same
design in gold on the cloth cover. Reproduced in "Early Work," and
again, with Aubrey Beardsley's letter to the _Daily Chronicle_ on
the subject, in "Under the Hill," 1904. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

Design for Title-Page of the above-named. Black and white;
reproduced in "Early Work."

89. THE YELLOW BOOK, 1894 AND 1895.

I. Design for prospectus of the "Yellow Book": a woman examining books
in a box at a bookstall: black on yellow paper. Elkin Mathews
and John Lane, 1894. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

Vol. I., April 1894. Elkin Mathews and John Lane.

II. Design on front side of yellow cover. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

III. Design on under side of cover; the same repeated in the later
volumes. (Property of John Lane, Esq.)

IV. Design on title-page: a woman playing a piano in a meadow.
Reproduced, with Aubrey Beardsley's letter on the subject, to the
_Pall Mall Budget_, in "Under the Hill" (1904). (Property of John
Lane, Esq.)