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Oscar Wilde first editions
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First edition, limited to 1000 copies; 4to; 4 plates and cover design by C. Ricketts and C.H. Shannon, illustrations in the text; publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, spine ends rubbed, lower board with some rubbing and spotting, upper faded at extremities with a single small ink spot (5 x 2mm) towards outer edge.
£2,500 -
First edition, limited to 250 copies; 8vo; half-title, slight toning to edges, offsetting to endpapers; publisher's decorative parchment boards gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, spine ends bumped, light soiling to boards, preserved in morocco-backed solander box, gilt lettered on spine.
£3,750 -
First edition, one of 150 copies only; large 8vo (268 x 175 mm.); 5 plates by Charles Ricketts, internally very good; original burgundy morocco, elaborately ruled & blocked in gilt to a design by Ricketts, with his monogram to the foot of upper & lower panel, a little rubbed at spine-ends, but really an exceptional copy, top edge gilt, others uncut.
£950 -
Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo (260 x 155 mm.); title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt, designed by Ricketts, top edge gilt, others uncut, an excellently bright & sharp copy.
£400