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WILDE (OSCAR) The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899 image 1
WILDE (OSCAR) The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899 image 2
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WILDE (OSCAR)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WILDE (OSCAR)

The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, this copy unnumbered, half-title, publisher's lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, light soiling, slightly rubbed at extremities [Mason 381], small 4to, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899

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Provenance: Robert Sebag-Montefiore.

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