2-880-226 - Shirley Markham Collection/Heritage Images

Frontispiece to A Book of Bargains by Vincent O'Sullivan, 1896. Woman sitting at a desk, '...represents an apparition from one of the stories' in '...a grim little book written in cool, clear prose, consisting of seven stories of people who bargain with the devil, either literally or figuratively', published by Leonard Smithers. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]