WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

Lot 164
13.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1362996
Lot 164 | WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)
[Collected Works]. Edited by Robert Ross. London: Methuen and Co. (volumes I-XI and XIII-XIV), 1908.
First collected edition, limited issue, one of 80 sets on Japanese vellum from a total edition of 1,080. Without the twelfth volume, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which carries the Paris imprint of Charles Carrington. [Mason pp.459-490].

13 (of 14) volumes, octavo (205 x 148mm). Half-titles. Original gilt-decorated limp vellum, upper covers with gilt design after Charles Ricketts consisting of italic title lettering between two medallions depicting a flying dove, and below a third medallion showing a star rising above the waters, flat spines gilt-lettered in italic, top edges gilt, others uncut (a few covers slightly bowing and with minor rubbing or darkening). Provenance: Mildred Syme (ink ownership inscriptions dated 1914).
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