Beardsley (Aubrey).- Wilde (Oscar) Salome. A Tragedy in One Act, first edition in English, one of 500 copies, title and list of plates with pictorial borders, 10 plates and tail-piece by Aubrey Beardsley, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original pale blue cloth with gilt decorations to centre of boards, uncut, rubbed, spine and edges of boards a little faded, [Mason 350; Ray 315A], small 4to, London & Boston, 1894.*** Wilde commissioned Beardsley to illustrate Salome but was shocked by the results, feeling that the images overpowered his text. Consequently one plate was replaced and another two altered. Beardsley mocked Wilde in his illustrations, depicting him as the 'Woman in the Moon' and as a jester in 'Enter Herodias'.