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Second issue. Published by John Lane, London [1907]. With contents sheet in letterpress and 17 plates [E.422 to 438-1972] in a portfolio of grey-green paper boards, half bound in vellum, with green silk tapes, stamped in gold with title and the rose-bush motif from the 1894 edition. With the stamp of A. Lang Buchhandlung Moskau inside the front cover.\n\nThe plates are no longer in the portfolio but are now mounted separately.\n\nAccording to Stephen Calloway in his book, Aubrey Beardsley, London: V&A Publications, 1998, p. 83: 'Because The Studio owned the copyright of Beardsley's original version of this subject the artist was obliged to redraw it; in fact this new version displays a considerable advance stylistically, even if it lacks something of the sheer menace of his earlier characterisation of the femme fatale, Salome. 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