"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
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 age-darkened. Very good. One of only 1000 copies published. An Ideal Husband was Wilde's third comedy, which appeared at the Haymarket on January 3, 1895. This first printing gave no mention of the author. Item #65824
Mason 385.
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