Wilde, Oscar - signature
£1,188
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Oscar Wilde's signature on the October 16th entry of The Henry Irving Birthday Book
Footnote
Provenance: An inscription on the flyleaf reads: Elizabeth Philp, August 1883, from the Compiler
Note: Viola Stirling compiled this book, published in London by George Routeledge and Sons in 1883. Elizabeth Philp, 1827-1885, was a singer and composer. She had been a friend of Elizabeth Hogarth, the wife of Charles Dickens, and was known to be a member of a community of London writers and musicians in the later 19th century.