Lot 194
Wilde, Oscar
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
The picture of Dorian Gray [in] Lippincott's monthly magazine, No 271. London: Ward, Lock & Co., July 1890. 8vo, advertisements, original printed wrappers, covers browned, covers chipped at edges, three holes to upper cover [one going through to third leaf] affecting main title text and adverts, hinges and backstrip splitting, offsetting from insert to pp.3, foxing
Footnote
Note: The first appearance of this important story which was revised and enlarged for final publication in book form. "The effect of Dorian Gray was prodigious. No novel had commanded so much attention for years, or awakened sentiments so contradictory in its readers." (Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde)
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was printed in America and published simultaneously in London and Philadelphia. This is the London issue, with the Ward, Lock and Co. imprint in larger type.