Beardsley Author:Stanley Weintraub Mr. Weintraub's intriguing account of Berardsley's life and times is a study of genius. At the age of twenty, "the Fra Angelico of Satanism" as Roger Fry was to call Beardsley, was still working as a clerk in the Garudian Life Insurance Company in London. Two years later he was undertaking the commission to illustrate Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.... more » It was, as Mr. Weintraub says, "an enormous venture for an untried youth, who up to then had published his work in nothing more imposing than a school magazine"-twenty full and double pages, nearly 550 borders, ornaments, chapter headings, initials and tail pieces. [...]« less