Lot 151
  • 151

Wilde, Oscar

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Wilde, Oscar
  • Salome. A tragedy in one act: translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1912
  • Paper
4to, half-title, pictorial title page, frontispiece, list of illustrations and 13 plates by Aubrey Beardsley, two leaves inserted after "The Persons of the Play" (giving the cast for the first performance of SalomĂ© in England in May 1905, and reproducing the playbill for the first production of the Operatic Version in Dresden in December 1905), 1p. publisher's adverts and original green linen upper cover, featuring Beardsley's design, and spine preserved at end, full green morocco gilt by Sangorksi and Sutcliffe, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, floral endpapers, collector's matching green and yellow slipcase, spine a little faded

Literature

Mason 356

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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