Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

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Lot 187 | Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
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Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

Oscar Wilde, 1898

[WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)]. Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life. London: Murdoch & Co., [1898].



First separate edition of Wilde's manifesto against carceral cruelty. Written during his imprisonment at Reading Gaol and first printed in the Chronicle, this short pamphlet addresses the firing of a warder who gave food to an imprisoned child, as well as the conditions of the prison for children more broadly. Mason 26.



Octavo. pp. 16. Publisher's printed drabwrapper (inner bifolium sprung and wrapper detached from staple). Customchemise. Provenance: tag of The Chaucer Head Bookshop on inner rear wrapper.

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