Literature
WILDE, Oscar.
[Collected works, edited by Robbie Ross.]
London, Methuen & Co. / Paris, Charles Carrington, 1908. 14 volumes, 8vo., edition limited to 80 sets printed on Japanese vellum, original limp vellum, with gilt lettering to the front covers and spines, and gilt emblematic devices to the front covers, with yapp fore-edges and top edges gilt, dust wrappers present. All volumes smartly presented in quarter dark green morocco solander boxes, lettered in gilt with a gilt device between each raised band, dust-wrappers worn to varying degrees but overall in excellent condition.
. The first Collected Edition of Wilde's works, here present in its most desirable state, and with the very rare dust-wrappers. Contains: A Woman of No Importance; The Duchess of Padua; Salome, a Florentine Tragedy and Vera; Lady Windermere's Fan; De Profundis; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Pieces; Miscellanies; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; Poems; The Picture of Dorian Gray (with the imprint Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908); Reviews; A House of Pomegranates and Other Tales; Intentions and the Soul of Man Mason 421, 424, 426, 428, 430, 432, 434, 436, 438, 440, 442, 444, 446 and 448.
Price: £ 12000
US Dollar Price: $ 17400
Stock Number: 74411