"The Yellow Book" - Elkin Mathews and John Jane, 1894-1897 first UK edition, mixed edition - complete in 13 volumes - 18cmx15cm - condition: fair, some are rebound in hardcover bindings, some in original bindings, binding split of vol 1, bindings darkened around spine and boards, rubbing and wear to boards and spine, ex-lib markings, plates present, bindings in original bindings have ads bound in rear. Complete set of all thirteen volumes of one of the most important periodicals of the 1890s, with contributions by Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, and W. B. Yeats, among many others. The Yellow Book was a British quarterly literary periodical that was published in London from 1894 to 1897. It was published at The Bodley Head Publishing House by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland. The periodical was priced at 5 shillings (£0.25, equivalent to £30 in 2021) and lent its name to the "Yellow Nineties", referring to the decade of its operation.