12. THE PAY OF THE PIED PIPER: A LEGEND OF HAMELIN TOWN. Eleven line drawings in illustration of, as follows:----
I. Entrance of Councillors, headed by Beadle carrying a mace. Reproduced in _The Westminster Budget_, March 25, 1898.
II. Rats feeding upon a cheese in a dish. Reproduced in _Westminster Budget_, March 25, 1898.
III. Child climbing into an armchair to escape from the rats. Reproduced in _The Poster_, Aug.-Sept. 1898. IV. The Sitting of the Council, under the presidency of the Burgomaster.
VI. Two rats on their hind legs, carrying off the Beadle's mace: behind them are three rats running. Reproduced in _Westminster Budget_, March 25, 1898.
VII. Meeting between the Beadle and the Piper.
VIII. The rats follow the Piper out of the town. Republished in _Westminster Budget_, March 25, 1898, and in _The Poster_, Aug.-Sept. 1898.
IX. Citizens rejoice at the departure of the rats.
X. The Piper is dismissed by the Beadle. Republished in _Westminster Budget_, March 25, 1898, and also in _Magazine of Art_, May 1898.
The above illustrations vary in size from 3-1/4 × 2-1/2 to 6-1/2 × 4-1/2 inches. They are unsigned, but a prefatory note describes them as being "the perfectly original designs and drawings of a boy now in the school, A. V. Beardsley"; and adds: "Our regret is that, lacking experience in the preparation of drawings for the photo-engraver, the reproductions should fall so far short of the original sketches." Published in the programme and book of words of the Brighton Grammar School Annual Entertainment at the Dome, on Wednesday, Dec, 19, 1888; bound up afterwards with _Past and Present_, February 1889. Latter part of 1888.
13. A SCRAP-BOOK, size 9-1/2 × 7 inches, the fly-leaf inscribed, in his own writing, _A. Beardsley_, 6/5/90, presented by the artist's mother to Robert Ross, Esq. Contains the following drawings, mounted as scraps:----
I. Manon Lescaut, three drawings to illustrate different scenes from. Executed with very fine pen and ink, the latter having, as compared with maturer works, a brownish tinge. One of them first appeared in "A Second Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley" (Leonard Smithers, December 1898), and all three were included in "The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley" (John Lane, 1901).