Wilde, Oscar

The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ward Lock and co., [1891], first edition, without blank, rebound in a specially-commissioned binding of painted black goatskin by Seamus McClafferty of Toronto in 1986, covers and spine with image of Dorian, top edge gilt, the others uncut, preserved in painted case and matching quarter grey cloth folding box [Mason 328]; [first illustrated edition] Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908 [1910], seven full-page wood-engravings by Eugene Dété from drawings by Paul Thiriat, with the slip printed in red about delayed publication, original vellum-backed grey paper boards, top edge gilt, preserved in quarter red cloth folding box, [Mason 335], A VERY FINE COPY; [another edition] John Lane the Bodley Head Limited and (New York:) Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925, illustrations by Henry Keen, introduction by Osbert Burdett, original pictorial cloth gilt, slipcase; together with a collection of 18 typed letters signed and six royalty statements concerning the copyright to this work, chiefly from London publishers J.M. Dent, W. Collins, Simpkin Marshall and others to Groves and Michaux of Paris, one from Vyvyan Holland, October 1930-March 1934, housed in folder and folding box; 8vo and 4to (4)

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