WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)

Lot 156
13.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1362813
Lot 156 | WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 25 000
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)
The Sphinx. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane. The Ballantyne Press, 1894.
A fine copy of the limited edition, one of 25 deluxe large paper copies. Dedicated to his friend the symbolist poet Marcel Schwob (1867-1905), who had worked with Wilde on translating his infamous play Salome, The Sphinx is ‘a fairy tale for adults in Wilde’s most jewelled and extravagant style’ (Collected Poems, p.xxii). Charles Ricketts ‘was requested by Wilde to design this first edition of The Sphinx, and it is the first book over which he exercised complete control of illustration, page, and binding design’ (The Turn of the Century 10). ‘No illustrated book was ever more thoroughly planned [...] The result is a perfect whole, as harmonious as it is dazzling’ (Ray, The Illustrator and the book in England 262). Henri Vever was one of the most important European Art Nouveau jewellers of the early 20th century and the author of La Bijouterie Francaise au XIXème siecle 1800 - 1900. Mason 362.

Quarto (256 x 187mm). One of 25 copies printed in green, red and black on hand-made paper, half and full page illustrations and ornamental initials by Charles Ricketts. Original gold-tooled vellum, with sphinxes on both sides, signed with initials CR (Charles Ricketts) and HL (Henry Leighton, binder), ‘eyes’ gilt stamped to all four corners of turn-ins, original cloth ties, yapp edges, untrimmed (lower margin of upper side very slightly rubbed); housed in fine olive morocco case with perspex sides by Lobstein-Laurenchet. Provenance: Henri Vever (1854-1942; ownership inscription) — Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate).
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