The following are two important periodical titles selected from many in the Norman Colbeck Collection: The Yellow Book and The Savoy.

After Wilde went to prison, Leonard Smithers almost single-handedly saved the avant-garde writers and artists from extinction, providing them with both employment and encouragement. When in April 1895 John Lane of the Bodley Head succumbed to the ultimatum of his "respectable" authors and dismissed Aubrey Beardsley as art editor of the Yellow Book, Smithers came to the rescue. He launched a rival journal, the Savoy, appointing Beardsley art editor and Symons literary editor (14).

The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly.
1894-1897. Vol. 1, April 1894.
Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1894.

Uniform small 4to, 6 1/4 x 8", bright yellow cloth with lettering and overall cover designs initially by Aubrey Beardsley, and from volume 6 onwards by other various artists. Contributors to Volume 1: Henry James; Richard Le Gallienne; Max Beerbohm; Arthur Christopher Benson; Ella D'Arcy; William Watson; George Stainsbury; Arthur Symons; Henry Harland; Edmund Gosse; Fred M. Simpson; Feorge Egerton; Arthur Waugh; Hubert Crackanthorpe; John Davidson; Richard Garnett; John Oliver Hobbs; George Moore.

The Savoy: An Illustrated Quarterly.
No. 1, January 1896 - No. 8 (and last), December 1896
Vol. 2, 1896.
Leonard Smithers, 1896.

From No. 3 onwards the title-pages read "An Illustrated Monthly." A set of the eight parts as issued by the publisher in three volumes 4to, 7 3/4 x 10 1/2:, in blue cloth with an elaborate design by Aubrey Beardsley on upper sides dated 1896, lower sides and spines also gilt-designed by him, spines lettered in nine lines with two short rules, all edges uncut. Heraldic bookplates of Cyril Dendall Butler.