Lot 130
  • 130

Wilde, Oscar

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Wilde, Oscar
  • Five editions of "Salome":
  • paper
Salome. A Tragedy in One Act: translated from the French of Oscar Wilde [by Lord Alfred Douglas]. John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1920, 16 drawings by Aubrey Beardsley (including the Hermaphrodite plate), original red cloth illustrated in gilt with Beardsley's original cover design, preserved in slipcase; [another edition] San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1927, LIMITED TO 195 COPIES, frontispiece and marginal decorations from wood-blocks designed by Valenti Angelo, SIGNED BY EDWIN AND ROBERT GRABHORN ON FRONT ENDPAPER, original blue cloth-backed decorated boards, slipcase, quarter blue morocco slipcase; [edition in French using Wilde's text] Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie, 1922, colour lithographs after Alastair, original pictorial wrappers, chemise and slipcase, wrappers slightly darkened; [another edition], Utrecht, Société de Roos, 1949, etchings by Jean-Paul Vroom, one of 185 copies, this copy printed for Mr L Bonhomme, vellum-backed red cloth boards; [German edition], Hanover: Heinrich Bohme, 1919, translated into German by Curt Moreck, 16 illustrations by Beardsley, limited to 350 copies, original vellum-backed marbled boards; various sizes (5)

Condition

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