'after a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations'
WILDE, Oscar.
A Woman of No Importance.
London, John Lane, 1894.
First performed in April 1893, prior to being published in book form, A Woman of No Importance addresses many social issues with Wilde's wit and dark humour. The run of the play was cut short as a result of Wilde's arrest and prosecution. The scandal dampened enthusiasm for Wilde's work until after his death in 1900, when interest in his work began to revive.
First edition, one of 50 large paper copies; 4to; printed on hand-made paper, contemporary ownership inscription to limitation, endpapers browned; publisher's straw coloured buckram with gilt decorations by Charles Ricketts, gilt lettering to spine, spine browned, a couple of trivial marks to covers, else very good plus; housed in custom purple cloth chemise and matching quarter morocco slip-case.
Mason 402.
Stock code 119720
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A Woman of No Importance.
MILTON, John; PHILIPS, Edward (translator).
Letters of State,
1694.
The first edition in English of Milton's Literare Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, translated by his nephew Edward Phillips, and containing three previously unpublished preliminary sonnets
£1,850.00
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Other Fables.
1897.
A handsome copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
£285.00
STOKER, Bram.
Dracula.
1897.
First edition of Bram Stoker's vampire classic, a genre-defining masterpiece inspiring numerous reprints, variations, pastiches, stage & screen versions
£17,500.00
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [with] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
1892; 1894.
A delightfully illustrated two volume set of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
£3,900.00
