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— Oscar Wilde
Lady Chillingham's House-Party. Or Margery's Romance.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1901. [Drama] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 150; [2]. INSCRIBED to half-title: 'Harriet Longman | with love and very good | wish from the author |... 1901.' Full green calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruling to boards, gilt ruling to turn-ins, all edges gilt, Gold Vein marbled endpapers. Illustrations including frontispiece by C.E. Brock. Title page in red and black. Copy belonging to Longman. Minor spotting to preliminaries, Longman ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown, else internally bright and clean. Minor signs of wearing to spine hinges, slight rubbing to head corners, toning to spine. A near fine, elegant copy. Alongside his son, Sebastian Evans adapted Édouard Pailleron's Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie (1901). Item #62777
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