London: The Sign of the Unicorn Press, 1897-1900
The period covered by Arts:Search is 1897-1900
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Published in two series. First series (1897-1896) subtitled A
Quarterly Containing Examples of All the Arts; New series
(1898-1900) subtitled "An illustrated magazine and review
of literature, music, architecture and the graphic arts". Each
issue of the first series is divided into four distinct sections
– Architecture; Literature; Drawing, Painting, and Engraving;
and Music. The second series isn’t divided into sections,
but merges the different art mediums. Literary
contributors included Laurence Binyon, Laurence Housman,
Gleeson White, W.B. Yeats, Maurice Maeterlinck, T. Sturge
Moore, Charles J. Holmes, Roger Fry, Alice Meynell, Louis
Barsac, Arthur Symons. Artists whose work is discussed or
illustrated include Edward Craig, Alan Wright, Paul
Woodruffe, G.F. Watts, William Strang, J.J. Guthrie, Frank
Mura, Philip Connard, and Edward Calvert.
See: David Peters Corbett. Symbolism in British ‘Little Magazines’: The Dial (1889-97), The Pageant (1896-7), and The Dome (1897-1900 in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Volume 1: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955, edited by Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 pp.111-119
James Thorpe. English Illustration in the Nineties. London: Faber & Faber1935 pp.195-197