Lot 16
  • 16

Wilde, Oscar

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • The Writings. New York: Gabriel Welles, 1925
  • leather, ink,gilt, paper
12 volumes, 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in.; 219 x 142 mm). Title-pages printed in blue and black with a vignette profile portrait of Wilde, paper watermarked ow. Contemporary red morocco, covers gilt-stamped with a fanfare design, spines gilt in six compartments, gilt dentelles, pink endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut; some light offsetting of dentelles to free endpapers, occasional very light rubbing to extremities of a few volumes.

Condition

12 volumes, 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in.; 219 x 142 mm). Title-pages printed in blue and black with a vignette profile portrait of Wilde, paper watermarked ow. Contemporary red morocco, covers gilt-stamped with a fanfare design, spines gilt in six compartments, gilt dentelles, pink endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut; some light offsetting of dentelles to free endpapers, occasional very light rubbing to extremities of a few volumes.
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Catalogue Note

Large Paper Edition, number 49 or 575 sets.