I found this at the Oxfam shop on Bold Street, Liverpool. I first became aware of Beardsley through the little known pop group the Would-be-Goods. Their song Diminuendo from the highly recommended 2002 LP Brief Lives is a lyrical imagination of the artist's strange and fascinating life. When I first heard it, I had no idea who the singer, Jessica Griffin, was singing about. Who, I wondered restlessly, was this person..."His face a sliver a hatchet, and his morning suit pearl grey/The table talk of Soho keeps the fear of death away." I thought it could be, possibly, about Ronald Firbank, but I wasn't certain, so after a little online research, I wrote to Jessica Griffin, and she told me it was in fact about somebody I had never before encountered: Aubrey Beardsley. I say that; I had never come across his name - I must have seen his face on the sleeve of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his illustrations for Wilde's Salome seemed familiar, but I knew nothing of him. In the song, she mentions his lithograph Par Les Dieux Jemeaux Tous Les Monstres Ne Sont Pas En Afrique which I hoped would feature in this "best of" but alas no. I didn't buy it, but still, better than the usual tat one comes across in charity shops.