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WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

Lot 147
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Lot 147 | WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)
Poems. London: by The Chiswick Press for Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1892.
Limited edition, number 210 of 220 copies signed by the author: from the library of artist and critic Aymer Vallance. This edition, which Mason describes as the 'Author’s edition', used the sheets of David Bogue's fifth edition of 1882 - which incorporated several substantive additions and amendments (cf. Mason 308) - with a cancellans bifolium designed by Ricketts and bearing the half-title, limitation statement, and title. The penultimate leaf Q6, which bore Bogue's advertisements, was excised. The binding design, ‘The Seven Trees' in gold on Iris cloth, (Mason) was also commissioned from Ricketts, and the book was published on 26 May 1892 at 15 shillings. Aymer Vallance (autograph on half title) was a British interior and landscape designer, architect, illustrator, critic, and writer on art. He was a close associate of William Morris, writing The Art of William Morris in 1897. He was also close with Beardsley, introducing him to Wilde’s circle. 'It was not until the following year that Beardsley began to move slowly towards Wilde's orbit. At the beginning of 1892 he was taken up by a young art- journalist and designer called Aymer Vallance. Vallance introduced him to Robbie Ross, More Adey, Count Stenbock and others on the fringes of Wilde's circle.' Matthew Sturgis, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. Mason 309.

Octavo (190 x 124mm). Half-title with woodcut decorations after Charles Ricketts on the verso, numbered in ink and signed by Oscar Wilde, woodcut title after Ricketts, endpapers decorated to the same design as the binding in purple on grey paper, top edges gilt, others untrimmed (front printed endpaper split at joint and loose, chipped at fore-edge, lower printed endpaper coming loose, light waterstain in blank lower outer margin, very minor spotting in places, deckle edges a little dust soiled). Original publisher’s gilt-stamped cream cloth after Ricketts (head of spine worn including part of title label with early repair, upper joint split half way, with small chip, spine slightly darkened, sides a little soiled); gilt morocco-backed case. Provenance: Aymer Vallance (1862-1943; ownership inscription on half title) — Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate).
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