Lot 754

Wilde, Oscar




Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Poems... London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1892, 8vo, number 88 of 220 copies, signed by the author, original decorative violet cloth gilt designed by Charles Ricketts, decorative endpapers, rebacked with some loss to head and base of spine, stain to lower board, corners bumped, front free endpaper loose and frayed with loss, some foxing, [with] a carte de visite of Wilde, London: Alfed Ellis & Walery, approx 11cm by 16.5cm, corner torn [no loss]; Ibid A woman of no importance. London, 1894. First edition, 8vo, one of 500 copies, original violet cloth gilt, darkened and soiled, ink stain in upper board, some foxing, backstrip faded, chipped at head and tail of backstrip, free endpaper stuck down and with ink inscription, lower corners bumped (3)



