Oscar Wilde | First Editions
1854 - 1900
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) Irish writer and poet, hugely successful playwright and novelist, master of the bon mot and the pithy aphorism, the very soul of the late Victorian literary era and its tragic sacrifice on the altar of respectability and hypocrisy. Very few figures capture the late-Victorian, slightly decadent, slightly silly, slightly sadistic, insanely creative fin-de-siecle period so completely as Oscar Wilde. His reputation as the leading aesthete of his day, equal parts hero and villain depending upon which side of the aesthetic argument you came down on, is well known. Parodied in Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience" 1881 he immediately caught the imagination of the public and with the sponsorship of John Murray and the assistance of the bizarre and enigmatic Colonel Morse Oscar embarked on a wildly successful tour of the US.
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![Item #73340 Anonymous Articles [in] The Pall Mall Budget. Vol. XLVI: A Good Historical Novel; Two...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/73340.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1760804132)
Anonymous Articles [in] The Pall Mall Budget. Vol. XLVI: A Good Historical Novel; Two Biographies of Keats; New Sculpture at the British Museum; A Scotchman on Scottish Poetry; Mr. Mahaffey's New Book; Mr. Morris' Completion of the Odyssey; Aristotle at Afternoon Tea.
London: The Pall Mall Gazette, 1st July to 31st December 1887. [Miscellaneous Articles] FIRST APPEARANCES. Folio (37 x 26cm), including 26 weekly parts, pp.32 each, with the Index to the Pall Mall Gazette, pp.xx. With occasional in-text illustrations. Recently re-backed in burgundy calf, with the original spine showing gilt titles..... More
De Profundis. Being the first complete and accurate version of 'Epistola: in Carcere et Vinculis' the last prose work in English of Oscar Wilde.
London: Methuen and Co., 1949. [Literature] First edition thus. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.148. Attractively hand-bound in navy blue half calf over original cloth sides with gilt vignette illustration blocked to upper, raised bands to spine, lettered in gilt. Contents clean, exterior unmarked. 'De Profundis' is Oscar Wilde's long letter..... More
The Works of Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest; A House of Pomegranates and A Happy Prince and Other Tales; De Profundis; Intentions; Salome, The Duchess of Padua, and Vera; A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories; Essays and Stories; Poems in Prose; What Never Dies, A Romance by Barbey D'Aurevilly; Poems; Epigrams; Essays, Criticisms and Reviews; His Life.
Boson, MA, and New York, NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co., 1909. [Literature] LEATHER-BOUND ILLUSTRATED SET, Edition De Luxe. Complete in 15 volumes. Octavo (20 x 13 x 56cm). Each volume with between three and seven black and white illustrated plates including a frontispiece, by various illustrators. An out-of-series copy..... More
The House of Pomegranates. The Design and Decoration of this Book by C. Ricketts and Ch. Shannon.
London: James R. Osgood Mc Ilvaine, 1891. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.158 [2]. With illustrations. Publisher's green cloth spine with titles in gilt, beige cloth boards decorated in red and bright gilt to upper, edges untrimmed, decorative endpapers. Contents gently toned throughout, no inscriptions, corners rubbed, some..... More
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908. [Psychological thriller] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.312. Illustrated with seven full-page wood engravings by Eugene Dété from drawings by Paul Thiriat of Paris, with titled tissue guards (tanned). The publisher's note on the illustrations is tipped onto the half title (although dated 1908..... More
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Comprising: 1. The Importance of Being Earnest; 2. The Picture of Dorian Gray; 3. A House of Pomegranates; The Happy Prince, and Other Tales; 4. De Profundis, First Edition with Additional Matter; 5. Lady Windermere's Fan; 6. Intentions, and The Soul of Man; 7. The Duchess of Padua, First English Edition; 8. A Woman of No Importance; 9. An Ideal Husband; 10. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, and Other Prose Pieces; 11. Salomé; A Florentine Tragedy, First Edition; Vera, First Edition; 12. Reviews, First Edition in book form; 13. Miscellanies, First Edition in book form; 14. Poems. Includes a previously unpublished poem.
13 volumes by Methuen and Co., London, and Charles Carrington, Paris, for 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', 1908. [Literature] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, limited to 1000 sets on hand made paper. Fourteen volumes, octavo (22 x 16 x 54cm). Handsomely bound in half mid-green oasis morocco, spines in six compartments with..... More
An Ideal Husband. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan.
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (21 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 214; [2], blank. Publisher's pink cloth with nouveau decoration in gilt, edges untrimmed. Engraved bookplate of Ernest Thornton-Smith to paste-down. Edges toned, deckles are dusty, covers with some expected soiling/handling to light coloured cloth, spine..... More
An Ideal Husband. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan.
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (21 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 214; [2], blank. Publisher's pink cloth with nouveau decoration in gilt, edges untrimmed. Heraldic bookplate to paste-down, free endpapers toned, covers gently used with expected (light) sunning and wear. Slight woodworming to rear cloth. Very..... More
The Trials of Oscar Wilde.
London: William Hodge, 1948. [Legal and literary history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm). Pp.384. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper. Discreet bookplate beneath flap. Contents and page edges clean, wrapper with shallow loss to rear panel, minor wear to spine ends. One of the most famous..... More
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