Wilde, Oscar
Salome
£1,638
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. Pictures by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Elkin Mathews, 1894. First edition in English and first illustrated by Beardsley, one of 500 copies, small 4to, original blue cloth, rebacked, 10 line-block plates including frontispiece, pictorial title-page, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear, covers faded, wear and fraying to fore edges of covers, tips bumped, contents toned [Mason 350]. Together with:
De Profundis. London: Methuen and Co., 1905. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, publisher's catalogue to rear, bookplate (Asa Lingard), spotting to endpapers and outer leaves [Mason 388];
The Picture of Dorian Gray. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905. 8vo, original grey-green cloth, [Mason 332];
An Ideal Husband. A Play. London: Methuen and Co., 1908. One of 1,000 copies, 4to, original cream cloth gilt, others untrimmed, spotting to endpapers, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper [Mason 429];
The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C. 3. 3. [Oscar Wilde]. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899 [or later]. Unauthorised edition following the seventh edition, 8vo, original cloth;
and 9 others, including 8 by Wilde, and Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, London: Medici Society, 1913 (one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards)