Wilde, Oscar

Poems. London: David Bogue, 1881. Publisher's vellum, gilt with designs of prunus blossom, top edge gilt, others uncut; lightly soiled. Half purple morocco slipcase (defective), chemise. First edition, one of 250 copies. (Mason 304) — The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward Lock and Co., 1891. Some scattered foxing, soiling, and browning. Polished calf gilt; extremities rubbed. First edition, large-paper issue, no. 30 of 250 copies signed by Wilde. (Mason 329) — The Sphinx. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane (at the Sign of the Bodley Head), 1894. Illustrations and decorations by Charles Ricketts; half-title, verso of dedication leaf, and a couple other leaves quite foxed. Publisher's vellum, gilt with designs after Ricketts, top edge gilt, others uncut; a bit soiled. Half purple morocco slipcase, chemise. First edition, one of 200 copies. (Mason 361) — De Profundis. London: Methuen and Co., (1905). Publisher's cream buckram gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut; spine slightly darkened. Half purple morocco slipcase, chemise. First edition, one of 200 copies on large paper. (Mason 389).



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