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WILDE (OSCAR) The Sphinx, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, and Copeland and Day, 1894 image 1
WILDE (OSCAR) The Sphinx, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, and Copeland and Day, 1894 image 2
WILDE (OSCAR) The Sphinx, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, and Copeland and Day, 1894 image 3
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WILDE (OSCAR)
The Sphinx, FIRST EDITION, Elkin Matthews and others, 1894

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WILDE (OSCAR)

The Sphinx, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, printed in green, red and black, 10 large illustrations and other decorations by Charles Ricketts, a few pages with some spotting, publisher's pictorial vellum gilt after a design by Ricketts, light spotting, preserved in morocco-backed solander box, gilt lettered on spine [Mason 361], 4to (220 x 173mm.), Elkin Matthews and John Lane, and Copeland and Day, 1894

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Provenance: Robert Sebag-Montefiore, bookplate.

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