Wilde, Oscar

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

Wilde, Oscar
The Happy Prince. David Nutt, 1888
paper

4to, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES, frontispiece and 2 full-page illustrations by Walter Crane, head- and tail-pieces by Jacomb Hood, original pictorial Japanese vellum boards printed in red and black, collector's quarter cloth folding box, gatherings starting in some places, offsetting to endpapers, some slight wear to spine and covers, head of spine slightly nicked

Literature

Mason 313

Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION OF THE WORK WHICH ESTABLISHED WILDE'S REPUTATION AS AN AUTHOR, with the Athenaeum comparing him to Hans Andersen.