A remarkably bright copy of the first appearance of five of Wilde's classic fairy tales for children, comprising: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket.

First edition, one of 1000 copies; small 4to (22.5 x 17 cm); half-title, frontispiece and 2 further plates by Walter Crane, decorative head and tail-pieces, a remarkably bold and clean copy with only the occasional minor spot or mark, none affecting text, old bookseller's slip loosely inserted, tissue-guard missing from frontispiece, else near-fine internally; publisher's Japanese vellum boards, upper cover printed in red and black with illustration by Jacomb Hood, spine lettered in black, slightly toned and a little bumped to head, some very light ageing to boards and faint abrasions to upper board from rubbed paper, endpapers unusually clean witth only two small abrasions to lower edge of front pastedown and middle of front free endpaper, spine a little loose in places but still firm, housed in a modern green solander box, some light rubbing to extremities, a few white marks to rear, spine a little faded, overall only the slightest signs of age and an impressively bright copy; [x], 116, [2]pp.

Mason 313.