WILDE OSCARLivre Rare Book
WILDE OscarMareMagnum
The Portrait of Mr. W.H. as written by Oscar Wilde. Some Time after the Publication of his Essay, of the same Title, and now first printed from the original enlarged Manuscript which for twenty-six Years has been lost to the World. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
19218vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, backstrip very lightly faded else a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Wilde's controversial essay, attempting to solve the mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets, was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889 (see Mason p.6; 4).
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