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WILDE (OSCAR) Poems, NUMBER 29 OF 220 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title below woodcut ornament and limitation statement, Elkin Mathew & John Lane, at the Sign of the Bodley Head, Vigo Street, 1892 image 1
WILDE (OSCAR) Poems, NUMBER 29 OF 220 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title below woodcut ornament and limitation statement, Elkin Mathew & John Lane, at the Sign of the Bodley Head, Vigo Street, 1892 image 2
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WILDE (OSCAR)
Poems, NUMBER 29 OF 220 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title below woodcut ornament and limitation statement, Elkin Mathew & John Lane, at the Sign of the Bodley Head, Vigo Street, 1892

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WILDE (OSCAR)

Poems, NUMBER 29 OF 220 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title below woodcut ornament and limitation statement, woodcut title after Charles Ricketts, untrimmed in publisher's pale violet cloth with gilt designs and lettering, and decorated endpapers, all by Charles Ricketts, t.e.g., neatly rebacked preserving most of original backstrip (the word 'Lane' cropped), endpapers strengthened at edges, preserved in clear wrapper and black half morocco solander box, gilt panelled spine with red and black labels [Mason 309; 'Oscar Wilde. A Collection', Bernard Shapero catalogue, 1989, 56], 8vo, Elkin Mathew & John Lane, at the Sign of the Bodley Head, Vigo Street, 1892

Footnotes

ONE OF 220 COPIES SIGNED BY WILDE. This edition, known as the 'Author's Edition', used the sheets of David Bogue's fifth edition of 1882. It included substantive additions and amendments along with a new title and half-title designed by Ricketts, and a binding design ('The Seven Trees') also by Ricketts. The penultimate leaf Q6, which bore Bogue's advertisements, was excised, but the present copy preserves the final blank Q7.

Provenance: Arthur Mullin, serpent and anchor bookplate mounted on verso of front free endpaper.

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