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Wilde, Oscar
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
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The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward Lock and Co., 1891
4to (8 7/8 x 7 3/8 in.; 225 x 190 mm). Dutch handmade paper, original parchment-backed gray bevelled boards, gilt lettering and gilt butterfly designs by Charles Ricketts, top edges gilt, others uncut, gray cloth clamshell case; extremities of binding slightly rubbed and skillfully reinforced, head and foot of spine with small tears neatly repaired.
4to (8 7/8 x 7 3/8 in.; 225 x 190 mm). Dutch handmade paper, original parchment-backed gray bevelled boards, gilt lettering and gilt butterfly designs by Charles Ricketts, top edges gilt, others uncut, gray cloth clamshell case; extremities of binding slightly rubbed and skillfully reinforced, head and foot of spine with small tears neatly repaired.
Provenance
Harold Hartley (bookplate)
Literature
Mason 329
Catalogue Note
Number 230 of 250 copies signed by the author. Advertised within The Athenaeum on 16 May 1891 as the "Edition de Luxe," this large-paper edition was published three months after the standard trade edition.