[Wilde, Oscar]

including various English, French, American and foreign editions of his plays, stories and prose works (some illustrated, e.g. Althea Gyles illustrating The Harlot's House, 1904), some first editions (e.g. A Picture of Dorian Gray, rebound), piracies (e.g. Lady Windermere's Fan, Paris, 1903, one of 250 copies, in cloth), collections of sayings and aphorisms, biographical works (authors including R.H. Sherard, Mason, Holbrock Jackson), satires (e.g. R. Hichens Green Carnation, 1894, first edition, and other editions of the same work), several volumes on his trial, bibliographical works (including Mason's Bibliography, the catalogue of the William Andrews Clark Jr. Oscar Wilde Collection in California, in several volumes), a number of limited editions (e.g. The Importance of Being Earnest, New York, 1956, 2 volumes in slipcase, facsimile edition limited to 500 copies); some rebound in morocco or other bindings; together with four boxes of Wilde ephemera; various sizes (c.168)

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