UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES 
 
 Gift of 
 William Andrews Clark, Jr
 
 The Library of 
 William Andrews Clark, Jr. 
 
 Q#tft>e dnb Q30ift»et<ma 
 
 Collated and Compiled 
 
 by Robert Ernest Cowan and 
 
 William Andrews Clark, Jr. 
 
 Cora Edgerton Sanders 
 and Harrison Post 
 
 Assistant Librarians 
 
 XJolume I 
 
 (poems, (|)fct£0 t <xrit> TUiffcetana 
 
 With Critical and Historical Notes 
 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. 
 
 San Francisco: 
 
 Printed by John Henry Nash 
 
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 It is sweet to dance to violins 
 When Love and Life are fair ; 
 
 To dance to flutes ■, to dance to lutes 
 Is delicate and rare : 
 
 But it is not sweet with nimble feet 
 % dance upon the air / 
 
 —The Ballad of Reading Gaol. 
 
 
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 (preface
 
 he collector of first and of early editions of 
 books has often been made the object of ridi- 
 cule and derision by those who in themselves 
 have never felt the thrill of the book-hu?it- 
 er,nor known the inherent pleasure that the 
 mere possession of a rare and curious literary item of one 
 of the world* s great writers ajfords its owner. These crit- 
 ics are of a too materialistic nature, incapable of seeing 
 and feeling the (esthetic, or of loving beauty for beauty s 
 sake alone; they for the most part measure everything by 
 its pecuniary value only ; they derive their pleasures from 
 alien pursuits, entirely foreign to those of the bibliophile* 
 They are as far removed from the world in which the lat- 
 ter dwells as is the average man from the field of thought 
 and of exploration that occupies the mind and the research 
 of the astronomer, 
 
 With these Philistines we have no quarrel; we are sat- 
 isfied to leave them to their own employments without let 
 or hindrance and without envy of their occupations. And, 
 indeed, so many able articles have been written in defense 
 of the love of book collecting, that it were superfluous here 
 again to reopen the controversy. The fact remains that in 
 the pur suit of his avocation,the bibliophilefollows the even 
 tenor of his way regardless of all cavilling critics,deriving 
 pleasure along with hundreds of others and joining with 
 them in a great and enthusiastic company havi?ig a com- 
 mon interest in a movement of a highly cultural character, 
 
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 But just why a collection of Oscar Wilde s first editions 
 and their variations should be gathered together and pre- 
 sented as in these volumes, is perhaps a pertinent question 
 and one that probably deserves consideration at our hands. 
 
 The precious gems of the Great Masters' creative genius ', 
 those rare volumes of writers of an assured and perma- 
 nent place in literature, in the quest and for the possession 
 of which so many collectors have devotedyears of patience, 
 time, and energy, have in this day become so scarce or so 
 augmented in value as to be either unprocurable or beyond 
 the reach of the average purse. The result is, that of late 
 years, the attention of the bibliophile has been turned to- 
 ward the more modern authors, whose works are likely to be 
 of permanence and in the search for which sufficient zest 
 is afforded the collector, by the peculiar conditions under 
 which they were published, as to awaken in him all the en- 
 thusiasm and interest that heretofore had been expended 
 in the search for the books of the older authors. 
 
 Two conditions, it appears, suffice to justify the making 
 of a collection of modern authors, but these would seem to be 
 sine qua non:frst,an assumption of the author s perma- 
 nent standing, determined either through ones own judg- 
 ment, or from a generally recognized acceptance of the 
 writer s creations as likely to obtain from posterity a fav- 
 or able verdict in this respect; and second, a condition ex- 
 isting at the time of the publication of his works or a hap- 
 pening contemporaneously , or soon thereafter, limiting the 
 
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 ?iumber of the editions, or their being published under such 
 peculiar circumstances as to give them the qualities of rar- 
 ity, scarcity, and uniqueness. 
 
 Collections of such wellk?iown modern authors as Edwin 
 Arnold, Max Beerbohm,Wilkie Collins,foseph Co?irad, 
 Austin Dob son, Benjamin Disraeli,fohn Drinkwater, 
 John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefeld, 
 William Morris, George Moore, Charles Reade, Robert 
 Louis Stevenson, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Symons, 
 Alfred Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope,Mark Twain, 
 BretHarte, Walt Whitman,and the literary works of such 
 artists as fames McNeill Whistler and Aubrey Beards- 
 ley, are now bei?ig made, and bibliographers, in anticipa- 
 tion of this movement, have been busy with their collations 
 and have published some splendid bibliographies of their 
 works to meet the needs of the collectors. 
 
 A collection of Oscar Wilde s first and early editions is 
 certainly justifiable under the above criteria. Many of 
 these are very scarce and in some instances consist of but 
 a few copies such for example as " Vera" and u The Duch- 
 ess of Padua "; many are limited in number and auto- 
 graphed by him ; some are presentation copies by the au- 
 thor ; some are printed on large handmade paper or on 
 vellum ; others are in smaller issues, limited or unlimited 
 in number; some of his works first appeared i?i for eig?i 
 languages; many were issued by piratical publishers who 
 did not scruple to bring forth their stolen wares before au- 
 
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 thorized editions were published; many of Wilde s writ- 
 ings first came to light in magazine form simultaneously 
 in this country and in England.Then,too,in the field of 
 Wildeiana the harvest is rich and varied, so great was 
 the attention which Wilde drew to himself and to his writ- 
 ings. Stuart Mason tells us in the preface to his "Bibli- 
 ography of Oscar Wilde" (1914.), that his work was the 
 result of more than ten years of labor in collecting this 
 writer s productions. 
 
 'That Oscar Wilde will indubitably find a high place in 
 his country s literature is not for a moment to be negatived. 
 It is a trite saying, yet one that has come to be accepted in 
 the art of criticism, that a man s genius and his creative 
 work resultant therefrom, can be properly evaluated and 
 justly estimated,and his place assigned in the particular 
 art which he follows, only after the passing of sufficient 
 years to allow a proper perspective to develop. What length 
 of years is necessary for this evolution must necessarily 
 depend upon the artist, his personality, his literary pro- 
 ductivity, and the period in which he lived and worked; 
 for the fruits of his labors must be judged with respect to 
 these peculiar factors which vary in nearly every case. 
 
 In endeavoring to apply this axiom of criticism to the 
 writings of Oscar Wilde we are met at the outset with 
 seemingly insuperable difficulties. We have to treat with 
 a most versatile and complex per son a lity ; a character 
 which may be said to be almost an enigma, compomided of
 
 many varying moods and idiosyncrasies ; a?id adumbrat- 
 ing the brilliant and dazzling success of Wilde's career 
 lies the sombre debacle that ended in his humiliation and 
 disgrace. 
 
 The time is not yet when the puritanical and parochial 
 
 Anglo-Saxon temperament can impartially pass critical 
 
 judgme?it upon Wilde s works. For that purpose we are 
 
 still too close to that period of his life which he passed in 
 
 gaol and of which he wrote in anguish and in despair: 
 
 "... That each day is like a year, 
 A year whose days are long." 
 
 The Latin race would not be influenced by the vagaries 
 of his life in reaching at this time an unbiased judgme?it 
 of his writings, But we who speak his language find it dif- 
 ficult indeed to disassociate the man from the crime for 
 which he suffered punishme?it ; nor can we read his writ- 
 ings without envisaging the man himself for he wrote so 
 much of himself into his works that they reflect, as does a 
 mirror, the simulacrum ofhisperso?ialitya?idofhis moods. 
 And when we think of Oscar Wilde, his ebullient spirits, 
 his love of life for the mere joy of living, and of the won- 
 drous things that the world had to offer him in thefubiess 
 of his creative literary powers, we are filled with sorrow 
 andwithpity because of the lamentable wreck thathemade 
 of his career and because a so brilliant life should have 
 ended in such a sordid tragedy. 
 
 In that great essay, U P en, Penci I, a?id Poison," found in 
 
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 his "Intentions" Wilde wrote of Thomas Griffiths Waine- 
 wright,that arch-criminal, poet uprose writer, and liter 'a- 
 teur," the fact of a man being apoisoneris nothing against 
 his prose" The words seem almost prophetic in their sig- 
 nificance. We should and we. must in time give due im- 
 personal consideration to Oscar Wilde s contributions to 
 English literature. Surely a man of his versatility can- 
 not fail to find a lasting place in his art. 
 
 As a raconteur and a conversationalist he was without 
 a peer in his day as is acknowledged by all; but alas! there 
 lived no Boswell in his time to record his ma?iy witticisms 
 and scintillating repartees; these gifted powers in him are 
 now a fast-fading memory which will soon pass into tra- 
 dition. Into his successful comedies, indeed,he has written 
 enough of his own personality to give us at least a slight 
 idea of his remarkable gifts in this direction, but they are 
 surely insufficient in themselves to ajfordus a satisfactori- 
 ly finished picture. He wrote them to astowid the theatre- 
 going pub lie, to "epater les Bourgeois"<z.r it were,and he 
 thereby, figuratively speaking, brought the entire London 
 world kneeling at his feet. 
 
 His verse is negligible in quantity and his early efforts 
 in wooing the Muse are for the most part neither better 
 nor worse than similar contemporary undergraduate ef- 
 fusions. But later he wrote those extraordinary poems, 
 " The Sphinx" and" The Harlot's House," and also that 
 inco??iparablepoem," The Ballad of Reading Gaol"— one 
 
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 of the most powerful ballads written in the English lan- 
 guage in the last hundredy ears, which alone should secure 
 for him a place among the immortals. 
 
 Among the powerful prose writers he surely must take a 
 place in the front rank. His "De Profundi's," so remark- 
 ably edited by Robert Ross, will always live as an example 
 of a supreme effort in self-analysis. His fairy stories are 
 wondrous works of skillful narrative power in the realm 
 of fantastic and imaginative tales. His" Picture of Dori- 
 an Gray" will certainly command attention as a psycho- 
 logical delineation of the decline of a man s moral fibre. 
 His critical essays are illuminating and are replete with 
 epigrammatic brilliancy, and his" Portrait ofW.H." is 
 as fine apiece of literary theoretical deduction as has ever 
 been penned in the English langicage. 
 
 After two failures in the drama he wrote his brilliant 
 and paradoxical comedies which will ever live alongside 
 the creations of Sheridan and others, and his one power- 
 ful drama," Salome" is a play that even today holds the 
 stage in Europe and America, and is produced in nearly 
 every language. 
 
 What a truly wonderful personality ! Oscar Wilde the 
 poseur, the attitudinizer,the cesthete; a poet, a dramatist, 
 an essayist, an epigrammatist, a critic, and lastly a hap- 
 less derelict. What an extraordinary compound of diverse 
 and contradictory talents! He is the one outstanding fig- 
 ure of that period known as the « Eighteen-nineties" in 
 
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 was followed by the Decadent school, to neither of which, 
 however, can he justly be said to have belonged; his writ- 
 ings , however ■, directly influenced the latter and this influ- 
 ence continues to the present day. 
 
 For this justification of collecting the works of Oscar 
 Wilde and of issuing the present volumes we rely confi- 
 dently upon the verdict of the bibliophiles of America and 
 of England, 
 
 William Andrews Clark,Jr. 
 July /, 1 922. 
 
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 WILDE, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills (1854- 1900). 
 Newdigate Prize Poem. 1 1 Ravenna. 1 1 Recited In 1 1 The Theatre, 
 Oxford, 1 1 June 26, 1 878. || By || Oscar Wilde, || Magdalen Col- 
 lege. || [Arms of the University.] || Oxford : ||Thos. Shrimpton 
 And Son, Broad Street. || 1 878. 
 
 Condition : 8°,gray wrappers printed in black, with a smaller design of 
 the arms,similar to title-page, within a single line border with floriated 
 points, on front-cover. Size of leaf, 7*^ by 4^ inches. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Cover-title as above,one leaf (verso blank);Title as above, 
 one leaf (verso blank),pp. [i]-[2] ; Dedication," To My Friend George 
 Fleming,"one leaf (verso imprint),pp.[3]-[4];Text,sixleaves,pp. [5]- 
 1 6 ; List of winners of the " Newdigate Prize Poems," from 1 840- 1 8 77, 
 back-wrapper (recto and verso), pp. [ 1 ]-2 ; List of winners of the " Gais- 
 ford Prize-Greek Prose,"from 1 8 5 7-1 8 76, ending with imprint,back- 
 wrapper(verso),p. 2. 
 
 " George Fleming," to whom this work is dedicated,is the pseudonym 
 
 ofJuliaConstanceFletcher,whose"ANileNovel"and"Mirage"were 
 
 published by Macmillan & Co., in 1 877. 
 
 The poem was published on June 24, 1 878, and the issue is said to have 
 
 been limited to a few hundred copies of which Wilde himself bought 
 
 no fewer than 175. 
 
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 An unauthorized edition in attempted facsimile of the original was is- 
 sued by "Wright & Jones," booksellers of 3 50 Fulham Road, S. W.,in 
 1 904,but the fraud can at once be detected in the color of the wrappers 
 and in the omission of the Oxford arms on the front-cover and on the 
 title-page. 
 
 "Ravenna" contains many lines adapted from poems published before 
 June, 1 8 78, some of the lines beingused again in poems published later, 
 though probably written earlier. For an example,see the note on "The 
 Sphinx." 
 
 With this poem Wilde won the Newdigate Prize. The prize is of the 
 annual value of £1 1. It was founded by Sir Roger Newdigate in 1806, 
 and according to the conditions the poem was to consist of not more 
 than fifty lines, the subject being confined to "recommendation of the 
 study of the ancient Greek and Roman remains of Architecture, Sculp- 
 ture, and Painting,"but in 1 826 these regulations were modified both 
 as to the length of the poem and also as to theme, and of late years the 
 decasyllabic line has not been insisted upon. 
 
 Ravenna, the ancient Italian seaport, was chosen as the subject of the 
 Newdigate for 1878. A happy circumstance had equipped Wilde for 
 the competition which was denied to the other aspirants and which gave 
 him a considerable advantage over them. During a longvacation tour to 
 Greece, in 18 77, he stopped on the way to visit Ravenna, and here he 
 gathered impressions and material that he was later to use in this poem. 
 He could call back memories of scenes that had been indelibly im- 
 pressed upon his mind; his rivals were left to visualize as best they 
 could what was to them a mere geographical dot on the map. 
 
 The poem was recited by Wilde in the theater at Oxford on June 26, 
 1 878. Mr. Sherard says: "The poem contains some beautiful lines,and 
 anyone who remembers the extraordinary musical beauty of Oscar 
 Wilde's voice will readily understand that, as is recorded in a contem- 
 porary account of the recital of 'Ravenna' by its author, c it was listened 
 to with rapt attention and frequently applauded ' by the crowded au- 
 dience." 
 
 Arthur Ransome says : "The wordy piece of rhetoric that was published 
 
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 after winning him the prize is enriched by some pictorial effects of po- 
 etry. But the best that can or need be said of the whole is, that it is an 
 admirable prize poem." 
 
 By many it is considered a fine piece of work, and certainly is a great 
 improvement on earlier poetical works. It is chiefly interesting to the 
 student of Wilde for the promise that it gives of better things to come. 
 As in almost all of his other poems, Wilde here sings under another's 
 influence and inspiration: the poem is reminiscent of Byron. 
 References: DeR\cc\,TheBookCollectorsGuide(i 92 i),p. 630; Mason, 
 Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1 Q07),pp. 1-5 ; Mason, Bibli- 
 ography of Oscar fVilde (1914),?]?. 241 -249, No. 301. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Poems. || By || Oscar Wilde. || [Publisher's device.] || London :|| 
 
 David Bogue, || 3, St. Martin's Place/Trafalgar Square,W. C.|| 
 
 1881. 
 
 Condition: 8°, full parchment, design of prunus blossoms stamped 
 
 in gilt on covers, back lettered in gilt, and design of prunus blossoms 
 
 repeated, gilttop,uncut,byMathewBell.Sizeofleaf,7^by4% inches. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title," Poems,"oneleaf(versoblank),pp.[i]-[ii];Title 
 as above,one leaf (verso imprint),pp.[iii]-[iv] ; Sonnet,"Helas !,"one leaf 
 (verso blank), pp. [v]-[vi] ; "The Poems," two leaves (verso of last leaf 
 blank), pp. [vii]-[x] ; Half-title," Eleutheria," B 1 (verso blank),pp. [1]- 
 [2];Text,[B2]-[B8],pp.[3]-i6;Half-title,"The Garden Of Eros,"Ci 
 (verso blank),pp.[i7]-[i8];Text,[C2]-Di,pp.[i9]-34;Half-title,"Rosa 
 Mystica," [D2] (verso blank), pp. [3 5] -[3 6] ; Text, [D3HE6] (verso 
 blank),pp.[37]-[6o];Half-title,"TheBurdenofItys,"[E7](versoblank), 
 pp.[6i]-[62];Text,[E8]-Gi,pp.[63]-82;Blankleak,[G2],pp.[83]-[8 4 ]; 
 Text of miscellaneous poems,[G3]-[H2],pp. 85-100; Half-title,"Char- 
 mides," [H3] (verso blank), pp. [ioi]-[io2] ;Text, [H4HK7] (verso 
 blank), pp. [103H142]; Blank leaf,[K8], pp. [i43]-[i44];Textof mis- 
 cellaneous poems, Li- [M2] (verso blank), pp. I45~[i64]; Half-title, 
 "Impressions DuTheatre,"[M3](verso blank),pp. [1 6$]-[i 66] ;Text, 
 
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 [M 4 ]-[M6] (verso blank),pp. [i 6i\-[i 72] ; Half-title," Panthea," [M 7] 
 (verso blank),pp. [1 73]-[i 74] ;Text,[M8]-[N5] (verso blank), pp. [1 75]- 
 [186]; Blank leaf, [N6],pp. [1 87]-[i 88]; Text of miscellaneous poems, 
 [N7]-[C>5],pp. 1 89-202 ; Half-title," Humanitad," [06] (verso blank), 
 pp. [203H204] ;Text,[07]-[Q3] (verso blank), pp.[205]-|>3o] ; Blank 
 leaf,[Q 4 ],pp.[23i]-[232];Textofpoem,[Q5]-[Q6],pp.233-236;Im- 
 print, [Q7] (verso blank), in eights, pp. [23 7H23 8]. 
 
 Printed on hand-made paper, water-marked "Van Gelder." The first 
 printing (June, 1 88 1) consisted of 750 copies of which only 250 copies 
 were used for the first edition, the remaining 500 being equally divided 
 between the second and third editions. 
 Wilde's prize poem "Ravenna" is not included in this collection. 
 
 Onpage 136, second stanza,line3, the word"may "should read"maid." 
 This volume contains Wilde's early poetical effusions, written both be- 
 fore and after his "Ravenna," the Newdigate Prize Poem. Many of them 
 had previously appeared in " Kottabos,' ' the Trinity College magazine, 
 in "Waifs and Strays," "The Irish Monthly," "The Month," "The 
 CatholicMonitor,"inEdmund Yates's magazine"Time,"and in other 
 London publications. Someof the poems are herepublishedforthefirst 
 time, among others, " Requiescat." The original manuscript is now in 
 the William Andrews Clark, Jr., library. 
 
 Before leaving Oxford, Wilde had identified himself with what has be- 
 come to be known as the "Aesthetic Movement" and soon became the 
 acknowledged leaderof the cult. He affected fantastic clothes,long hair, 
 Byronic collars, and long bow-ties, and oftentimes could be seen prom- 
 enading the streets with a lily or a large sun-flower in his hand, abstract- 
 edly gazing into the very soul of the flower,as if seeking inspiration. So 
 much attention did he attract to himself by his connection with "aes- 
 theticism" that in due time he was caricatured in"Punch," as Bunthorne 
 in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera,"Patience." Whether sincere or 
 not, the " pose," says Mr. Sherard, "such as it was, was eminently suc- 
 cessful. If notoriety were sought after,it was gained to the fullest extent." 
 Managers offered him lecture tours in England, Scotland,and in Amer- 
 ica. But the most important result for Wilde was that, through the noto- 
 
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 riety and publicity he had achieved, he was able to secure a publisherfor 
 his poems. 
 
 Most of the poems are not above the average mediocrity of the usual 
 undergraduate effusions; a few of them,however,are sufficient in them- 
 selves to entitle Wilde to serious consideration at least as a minor poet. 
 They are, however, for the most part, the outpourings of a young man 
 still under the influence of his classical studies,and deeply imbued with 
 the mythology of Greece and Rome. With the public the volume of 
 poems attained an immediate success, and so great was the demand that 
 in four months as many editions were printed. The American edition, 
 too, was widely read in the United States, and its successful reception 
 led ultimately to a lecture tour in this country. 
 
 Itisacuriousfactthatwiththeexceptionofthe"BalladofReadingGaol" 
 and his comedy," An Ideal Husband," Wilde, during his entire career, 
 was never able to obtain commendatory criticism from a majority of 
 the critics for his poetical, his dramatic, and his prose works. 
 
 This volume was received as the work of one representing a new move- 
 ment in literature, but it was stamped as artificial,insincere,and as want- 
 ing in originality.The poems were declared to be ephemeral in character 
 and it was predicted that soon they wouldbe assigned to oblivion,though 
 grace and beauty of expression could not be denied them. On the other 
 hand it can not be negatived, even by the most enthusiastic of Wilde's 
 admirers,that he plucked blossoms from the orchards of Shakespeare, 
 Milton, Byron, Keats, Browning, Tennyson, Morris, Rossetti, Swin- 
 burne,Baudelaire,and other poets. Butwhat he borrowed he so stamped 
 with his own individuality that the result was a work of art entirely new 
 and entirely his own. Not always, to be sure,did he thus succeed but,in- 
 deed,for the most part. Ingleby sums up this part in an admirable way : 
 " The difference between the true poet who has studied the great verse 
 of bygone ages and the mere imitator,is that one will produce a work of 
 art enhanced by the suggestions derived from the contemplation of the 
 highest conception of genius, whereas the other will outrun the consta- 
 ble and merely accentuate and burlesque the distinguishing character- 
 istics of the works of others. In the case in point, whilst we note with 
 
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 pleasure and interest the points of resemblance between the poem and 
 the models that its author has followed, we are conscious that what we 
 are reading is a work of art in its self and that its intrinsic merits are en- 
 hanced by the points of resemblance and do not depend on them for 
 their existence." Ransome writes : "To describe a young poet's work as 
 derivative is not the same thing as to condemn it. All work is derivative 
 more or less, and to pour indiscriminate contempt on Wilde's imita- 
 tions, because they are imitations,is to betray a lamentable ignorance of 
 the history of poetry." Wilde's chief fault seems to have been in the 
 over-elaboration of detail which cloys the play of his fancy and of his 
 imagination. He is not to be too severelyjudged by these early poems. 
 They should be evaluated only in the light of his later poems upon 
 which alone his right to be called a poet must ultimately be placed. 
 References :T)eRicc\,The Book Collector's Guide (i 92 i),p. 630; Mason, 
 Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde(i 907),pp. 6-7, No. I,i; Mason, 
 Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (19 1 4-),pp. 281-28 2^0.304. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Poems. 1 1 By 1 1 Oscar Wilde. 1 1 Second Edition. || [Publisher's de- 
 vice.] 1 1 London : 1 1 David Bogue, 1 1 3 , St. Martin's Place,Trafalgar 
 Square,W.C.||i88i. 
 
 Condition: 8°, full vellum boards, with design of prunus blossoms in 
 gilt on sides and back, gilt top, uncut. Size of leaf,7^ by 5 inches. 
 Second Edition. 
 
 Collation : Description agrees with previous copy in every respect. 
 The design of prunus blossoms on the sides is from a larger pattern than 
 in the first issue. 
 
 References: Mason, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1907), 
 p.7, N o A,n;Ma.son,Bibliography of Oscar Wilde(ioi 4),]). 282,^0.305. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Poems. || By || Oscar Wilde. || [Publishers' device.] || Boston: || 
 
 Roberts Brothers. || 1 88 1 . 
 
 Condition: 8°, three-quarters red crushed levant morocco, gilt back, 
 
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 gilt top, uncut. The WalterThomas Wallace copy with bookplate. Size 
 
 of leaf, 6^4' by 4^ inches. 
 
 First Authorized American Edition. 
 
 Collation: Title as above,one leaf (verso imprint),pp.[i]-[ii] ; Sonnet, 
 "Helas!,"oneleaf(versoblank),pp.[iii]-[iv]; "The Poems," two leaves 
 (verso of last leaf blank), pp. [v]-[viii]; Half-title," Eleutheria,"sig. ii 
 (verso blank), pp. [i]-[2]; Text, [sig. i 2 ]-[sig.is],pp.[3]-i6; Half-title, 
 "The Garden Of Eros," sig. 1 x (verso blank),pp.[i7]-[i 8];Text,[sig. 
 22J-sig.3i,pp.[ 1 9]-34; Half-title," Rosa Mystica,"[sig.3 2 ] (verso blank), 
 PP-[35]-[3 6 ]; Text >[ si g-33]-[ si g-46] (verso blank),pp.[37]-[6o]; Half- 
 title," The Burden Of Itys," [sig.4 7 ] (verso blank), pp. [6i]-[62];Text, 
 [sig-48]-sig.6i,pp.[63]-82 ; Half-title," Impression Du Matin," [sig.6 2 ] 
 (verso blank), pp. [83]-[84] ; Text, [sig. 6 3 ]-[sig.7 2 ], pp. 85-100; Half- 
 title," Charmides," [sig.7 3 ] (verso blank), pp. [ioi]-[io2]; Text, [sig. 
 74]"[ s ^g- 9t\ ( verso blank), pp. [i03]-[i42] ; Miscellaneous poems, [sig. 
 98]- sig. 1 1 1 (verso blank), pp. I43~[i62]; Half-title," Impressions Du 
 Theatre," [sig. 1 1 2 ] (verso blank), pp.[i 63]-[i 64] ; Text, [sig. 1 1 3 ]-[sig. 
 1 1 5 ](verso blank),pp.[i 6$]-[i 70] ; Half-title," Panthea," [sig.i 1 6](ver- 
 so blank), pp. [i7i]-[i72J;Text, [sig. 1 i 7 ]-[sig. I2 4 ] (verso blank),pp. 
 [1 73]-[i 84] ; Miscellaneous poems,[sig. 1 2 5 ]-[sig. 13 3 ] (verso blank),pp. 
 i85~[i98]; Half-title,"Humanitad,"[sig. i3 4 ](verso blank), pp. [199]- 
 [200]; Text, [sig.135J-sig.151 (verso blank),pp.[20i]-[226];Text of one 
 poem,[sig.i 5 2 ]-[sig.i 5 3 ],in eights,pp.227-23o; Blank leaf, [sig. 1 5 4 ],pp. 
 [231H232]. 
 
 On page 136, second stanza,line3, should read "maid"instead of"may." 
 This is a reprint of Bogue's 1 8 8 1 edition. 
 
 References : Mason, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1 907), 
 p. 7, No. II; Vinson, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1914), pp. 323-324, 
 No. 310. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Poems by Oscar Wilde. || Also, His Lecture On The English 
 Renaissance. || . . . New York: || George Munro, Publisher || 17 
 To 27Vandewater Street. [1882.] 
 
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 Condition : 4 , original yellow printed wrappers, stitched. Size of leaf, 
 \iy& by 8% inches. 
 
 CoLLATioN:Yellowwrapperwithadvertisements of Brentano on recto, 
 and miscellaneous advertisements on verso; Title as above,with" Sea- 
 side Library," Vol. LVIII, No. 1 1 83, index, and imprint, p. [1] ; Mis- 
 cellaneous advertisements, p. [2] ; Text, pp. [3]-$ 1 ; Miscellaneous ad- 
 vertisements and list of "The Seaside Library" latest issues, p. [32]; 
 Miscellaneous advertisements, back-cover (recto and verso). 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1907), 
 p.8,No.III. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 Poems by Oscar Wilde. || Also, His Lecture On The English 
 Renaissance. 1 1 . . . New York: || George Munro, Publisher || 17 
 To 27Vandewater Street. [1882.] 
 Condition: 4 , stitched,uncut. 
 
 Collation: Description is identical with preceding copy except that 
 at the end some of the advertisements differ slightly and the list of" Lat- 
 est Issues" is of subsequent date. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Poems||By||Oscar||Wilde||M.DCCC.||.XC.II||Elkin Math- 
 ews || & John Lane || At || The Sign Of The || Bodley Head || In| I 
 Vigo Street || All Rights Re- 1| -served || London. 
 Condition: 8°, pale violet cloth boards,with designs by Charles Rick- 
 etts stamped in gilt on covers and back, gilt top,uncut. The Rowland 
 Thurnam copy with bookplate in colors. Size of leaf,7^ by 4 % inches. 
 Author's Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title," Poems,"one leaf (verso "This Edition Con- 
 sists Of 220 Copies, 200 Of Which Are For Sale No. Of Copy 197," 
 signed with autographic signature of Oscar Wilde), pp. [i]-[ii] ; Picto- 
 rial-title as above, within double ruled borders, one leaf (verso blank), 
 pp.[iii]-[iv] ; Sonnet/'Helas !, "one leaf (verso blank),pp.[v]-[vi];"The 
 Poems," two leaves (verso of last leaf blank), pp. [vii]-[x]; Half-title, 
 
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 "Eleutheria,"Bi(versoblank),pp.[i]-[2];Text,[B2]-[B8],pp.[3]-i6; 
 Half-title,"The Garden Of Eros,"Ci(versoblank),pp.[i7]-[i8];Text, 
 [C2]-D i , pp. [i 9]-34 ; Half-title," Rosa Mystica," [D2] (verso blank), 
 PP- [3 S]~[3 6] ; Text, [D 3 ]-[E6] (verso blank), pp. [3 7 ]-[6o] ; Half-title, 
 "The Burden Of Itys,"[E7] (verso blank), pp.[6i]-[62]; Text,[E8]- 
 Gi,pp. [63]-82; Half-title," Wind Flowers," [G2] (verso blank), pp. 
 [83]-[8 4 ];Text,[G3]-[H2],pp.85-ioo;Half-title,"Charmides,"[H3] 
 (verso blank),pp.[ioi]-[i02];Text,[H4]-[K6], pp. [1035-140; Half- 
 title, " Flowers Of Gold," [K7] (verso blank), pp. [141H142] ; Text, 
 [K8]-Mi (verso blank), pp. I43~[i62]; Half-title, "Impressions Du 
 Theatre,"[M2](versoblank),pp.[i63]-[i6 4 ];Text,[M3]-[M5](verso 
 blank),pp. [1 65H1 70] ; Half-title," Panthea," [M6](verso blank),pp. 
 [i7i]-[i72];Text,[M7]-[N 4 ](versoblank),pp.[i73]-[i8 4 ];Half-title, 
 "The Fourth Movement," [N5] (verso blank),pp.[i 85H1 86] ; Text, 
 [N6]-[04],pp. 1 87-200; Half-title,"Humanitad,"[05] (verso blank), 
 pp.[2oi]-[202];Text,[06]-[Q2] (verso blank),pp.[203]-[228]; Half- 
 title,"FlowerOfLove,"[Q3](versoblank),pp.[229]-[23o];Text,[04]- 
 [Q5], ending with imprint,in eights, pp. 23 1-234. 
 
 The designs on binding,end-papers,and title-page are by Charles Rick- 
 
 etts,thaton the binding representing "The Seven Trees." 
 
 This edition is a reprint of Bogue's fifth edition of "The Poems." The 
 
 first two preliminary leaves are cut out, also the sixth leaf of sig. Q, 
 
 which contained a list of Bogue's publications. 
 
 References: Mason, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1907), 
 
 p. 9,No.X; Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (191 4), pp. 319-323, 
 
 N0.309 ; Widener Catalogue (Rosenbach) (1 9 1 8),pp. 278-279. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Poems ||By|| Oscar Wilde.||New York: || George Munro's Sons, 
 
 Publishers, 1 1 17 To 27 Vandewater Street. [1895.] 
 
 Condition: 8°,fullcrimsoncrushedlevantmorocco, gilt insideborders, 
 
 gilt edges, Jansen style,by the French Binders. Size of leaf,7^ by 4^ 
 
 inches. 
 
 CoLLATiON:Title as above,p. [1] ; Advertisements of Hamlin's " Wiz- 
 
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 ard Oil"and"Scott's Emulsion," p.[2];Sonnet,"Helas!,"p.[3];Blank, 
 p.[4];Text,pp.[5]-96; Original front yellow wrapper, one leaf (verso 
 list of Munro's library already issued);" Munro's Library Of Popu- 
 lar Novels, Latest Issue," one leaf (verso advertisement of Ayer's Sar- 
 saparilla). 
 
 This edition isNo. 171, of "Munro's Library of Popular Novels,"is- 
 sued weekly, datedMay 6, 1 895,price twenty-five cents,which appeared 
 in yellow wrappers.Ten of the poems are omitted and the remainder are 
 not in their original sequence. A later impression appeared,dated April 
 21, 1896. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1907), 
 p.8,No.VI. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Poems || By || Oscar Wilde || Together With His || Lecture On 
 The English 1 1 Renaissance 1 1 (Now first Published) 1 1 Paris || 1 903 
 
 Condition: 8°, cream buckram boards lettered in gilt on back,uncut. 
 Size of leaf, 7^ by 5 inches. 
 Pirated Edition. 
 
 Collation: "Edition limited to 250 copies. This is No.69,"one leaf 
 (verso) (recto blank); Title as above, one leaf (verso blank); Sonnet, 
 " Helas !,"with ornamental head-piece, sig. 1 x (verso blank),pp.[i]-[2] ; 
 Half-title," Eleutheria," [sig. i 2 ] (verso blank), pp. [3H4]; Text, [sig. 
 1 3 ]-sig.3 i(verso blank),pp. 5-^4] ; Half-title," Rosa Mystica," [sig.32] 
 (verso blank), pp. [3 5]-[36];Text,[sig.3 3 ]-[sig.9g],pp.37-i44; Half- 
 title," Impressions DuTheatre,"sig. 1 Oi(versoblank),pp.[i45]-[i 46]; 
 Text, [sig. io 2 ]-[sig. 13J (verso blank), pp. 147- [200] ; Half-title," Lec- 
 ture On The English Renaissance," [sig. 135] (verso blank),pp.[20i]- 
 [202];Text,[sig.i36]-[sig.i4 4 ],ineights,pp.203-2i6.Sig.i4iisunnum- 
 bered. 
 
 The initial capital at the beginning of each poem is the same as those 
 used in the pirated editions of "The Portrait of Mr.W.H.,""Lord 
 Arthur Savile's Crime," "The Sphinx Without a Secret," etc., show- 
 ing that all these books were printed at the same press. There is no list 
 
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 of contents. The volume was published by Smithers, or " Wright and 
 
 J> > 
 ones. 
 
 The title of the last poem in this book is given in English characters: 
 
 "GLYKYPIKROS EROS." 
 
 References: Mason, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (i 907), 
 
 p. 10, No. XI, i; Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (19 14), pp. 543- 
 
 544, No. 607. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Poems || By || Oscar Wilde || Together With His || Lecture On 
 The English 1 1 Renaissance 1 1 (Now first Published) 1 1 Paris 1 1 1903 
 
 Condition: 8°,fullvellumboards,letteredingiltonback,uncut.Sizeof 
 leaf, 7 % by 5 % inches. 
 
 Pirated Edition on Japanese Vellum. 
 
 Collation : Description identical with preceding copy except that the 
 verso of the first leaf reads : " Edition de Luxe, on Japanese Vellum, only 
 50 copies issued.This is No. 18." 
 
 References: Mason, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1 907), 
 p. 10, No. XI, ii ; Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (19 14), p. 544, 
 No. 608. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The Poetical Works Of || Oscar Wilde Including || Poems In 
 Prose With Notes || Bibliographical Introduc-||tion Index And 
 Facsimiles || Of Title-Pages || [Publisher's device.] || Printed 
 For Thomas B Mosher And || Published By Him At XLV Ex- 
 change || Street Portland Maine MDCCCCVIII 
 
 Con DiTiON:8°,graypaperboardswithprunus blossom design impressed 
 in gilt on sides similar to that appearing inDavidBogue's second edition 
 (1 8 8 1), ribbed back with white paper label printed in black and red. Size 
 of leaf,7^ D y S l A inches. 
 
 Collation: Half-title," The Poetical Works Of OscarWilde,"one leaf 
 (verso quotation from" De Profundis"), pp. [i]— [ii] ; Title as above,in red 
 
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 and black,one leaf (verso copyright notice),pp.[iii]-[iv] ; Dedication,one 
 leaf (verso blank),pp.v-[vi] ; " Contents,' ' three leaves,pp.vii-[xii] ; Half- 
 title," Introduction," one leaf (verso sonnet signed "A. D."),pp. [xiii]- 
 [xiv]; Introduction, pp.xv-xxiii; Blank,p.[xxiv];Half-title,"Ravenna," 
 p. [ i ] ; Bibliographical note,p. [2] ; Text, pp.3 -17; Blank, p. [ 1 8] ; Half- 
 title," Poems," p.[i 9] ; Bibliographical note,p.[2o] ; Sonnet,"Helas !," 
 p. [2 1] ; Blank, p. [22] ; Half-title," Eleutheria," p. [23] ; Blank,p. [24] ; 
 Text,pp.25-37;Blank,p.[38];Half-title,"TheGardenOfEros,"p.[39]; 
 Blank,p.[4o];Text,pp.4i-54;Half-title,"RosaMystica,"p.[55];Blank, 
 p.[56];Text,pp.57-78;Half-title,"TheBurdenOfItys,"p.[79];Blank, 
 p. [80] ; Text, pp. 81-98; Half-title,"Wind Flowers," p. [99] ; Blank,p. 
 [100]; Text, pp.101 -1 1 5; Blank, p. [ 1 16]; Half-title, "Charmides," p. 
 [117]; Blank, p.[i 1 8] ; Text, pp. 1 1 9-1 53 ; Blank, p. [1 54] ; Half-title, 
 "Flowers Of Gold,"p.[i 55] ; Blank,p.[i $6] ; Text,pp.i 57-1 74; Half- 
 title,"ImpressionsDuTheatre,"p.[i75];Blank,p.[i76];Text,pp.i77- 
 181; Blank, p. [1 82] ; Half-title," Panthea," p. [1 83] ; Blank, p. [1 84] ; 
 Text, pp. 1 85-193; Blank, p. [194]; Half-title, "The Fourth Move- 
 ment,"p.[i 95] ;Blank,p.[i 96] ;Text,pp.i 97-206 ;Half-title,"Humani- 
 tad,"p. [207]; Blank,p. [208]; Text, pp.209-229;Blank,p. [230]; Half- 
 title, "Flower Of Love," p. [231]; Blank, p. [232];Text,pp.233~236; 
 Half-title,"The Sphinx,"p.[23 7] ; Bibliographical note,p.[23 8] ; Text, 
 pp.23 9-260; Half-title,"The Ballad Of Reading Gaol,"p. [261]; Biblio- 
 graphical note,p. [262] ; Text, pp. 263-295 ; Blank, p. [296] ; Half-title, 
 " Uncollected Poems,"p.[297];Blank,p.[298];Text,pp.299-3 28 ;Half- 
 title,"Poems In Prose," p. [329]; Blank,p.[33o];Text,pp. 331-349; 
 Blank, p. [3 50] ; Half-title, "Translations," p. [3 5 1] ; Blank, p. [3 52] ; 
 Text,pp. 353-367; Blank,p.[368];Half-title,"IndexTo First Lines," 
 p.[369];Blank,p.[37o];Text,pp.37i-375;Blank,p.[376]; Half-title, 
 " Bibliographical Index,"p. [3 77] ;Blank,p. [3 78]; Text, pp.3 79-394; 
 Half-title," Facsimiles," p. [3 9 5] ; I ndex,p. [3 96] ; Facsimiles,six leaves 
 (verso of each blank),pp.[397]-[408]; Colophonandpublisher's device, 
 p. [409]; Blank,p.[4io]. Four blank leaves at end. 
 The frontispiece is the London portrait of Wilde taken by Ellis and 
 Walery in 1 892, reproduced by the Biers tadt process in Alber-type,on 
 Japanese vellum. 
 
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 There are no signature marks. 
 
 The original manuscnptdraftof a SenArtysty;Or,TheArtist'sDream," 
 from the Polish of Madame Helena Modjeska, found on pages 363 to 
 367, is in the library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 Poems || By || Oscar Wilde || With Biographical Introduction || 
 ByTemple Scott|| Author of "The Pleasure of Reading," etc. || 
 Editor of " The Prose Works of Swift," etc. 1 1 New York 1 1 Bren- 
 tano's||MCMXIII 
 
 Condition : 8°, bufflinen boards with design and lettering stamped in 
 gilt on front-cover and back,uncut. The Harrison Post copy with book- 
 plate. Size of leaf, 7^ by 5^ inches. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, "Poems Oscar Wilde, "one leaf (verso Bren- 
 tano's list of works by Wilde),pp.[i]-[ii] ;Title as above,one leaf (verso 
 copy right notice),pp.[iii]-[iv]; Note by the editor,one leaf (verso blank), 
 pp. [v]-[vi]; "Contents," two leaves, pp. vii-x;" Introduction," byTem- 
 ple Scott, pp. xi-xxxiv; Half-title, "Poems MDCCCLXXXI," one 
 leaf (verso blank), pp. [ 1 ]-[2]; Sonnet," Helas!, "one leaf (verso blank), 
 PP'bLM » Half-title, " Eleutheria," one leaf (verso blank),pp.[5]-[6] ; 
 Text,pp.7-20 ; Half-title,"The Garden Of Eros,"one leaf (verso blank), 
 pp. [21 ]-[22];Text,pp. 23-3 6; Half-title," Rosa Mystica,"one leaf (ver- 
 so blank),pp.[37]-[38];Text,pp.39-59;Blank,p.(6o];Half-title,"The 
 Burden Of Itys,"one leaf (verso blank), pp. [6 i]-[62];Text,pp. 63-8 2; 
 Half-title," Wild Flowers," one leaf (verso blank), pp. [83]-[84]; Text, 
 pp. 85-99 ; Blank, p. [100]; Half-title," Charmides," one leaf (verso 
 blank), pp. [ioi]-[i02];Text,pp.i03-i4i; Blank, p. [142]; Half-title, 
 "Flowers Of Gold," one leaf (verso blank),pp.[i43]-[i44];Text,pp. 
 1 45-1 6 1 ; Blank, p. [1 62] ; Half-title," Impression DuTheatre,"one leaf 
 (verso blank),pp.[i 63]-[i 64] ; Text,pp. 165-169; Blank, p. [1 70] ; Half- 
 title, " Panthea," one leaf (verso blank), pp. [1 7 i]-[i 72] ; Text,pp. 1 73- 
 182; Half-title, "The Fourth Movement," one leaf (verso blank),pp. 
 [i83]-[i84];Text,pp.i85-i95; Blank,p. [196]; Half-title," Humani- 
 tad,"one leaf (verso blank),pp.[i97]-[i98];Text,pp. 199-222; Half- 
 
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 title, "The Flower Of Love," one leaf (verso blank), pp. [223]-[224]; 
 Text, pp. 225-227 ; Blank,p. [228]; Half-title,"TheSphinx,"pp.[229]- 
 [230]; Text,pp. 23 1-252 ; Half-title," The Ballad Of Reading Gaol," 
 oneleaf(versoblank),pp.[2 53]-[254];Text,pp.255-285;Blank,p.[2 86]; 
 Half-title," Later Poems And Translations,"one leaf (verso blank),pp. 
 [287]-[2 88];Text,pp.289-334;Half-title,"Ravenna,"oneleaf(verso 
 blank), pp. [33 $]-[33 6 ] 5 Text > PP- 33 7 "3 53 5 Blank > P- [3 54]- 
 I n this edition appears the half-title "Wild Flowers," which in all other 
 editions examined reads "Wind Flowers." 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The Sphinx By Oscar Wilde || [Full-page design.] || With Dec- 
 orations By Charles Ricketts|| London MDCCCXCIV||Elkin 
 Mathews And John Lane. At The Sign Of The Bodley Head. 
 
 Condition: Small 4°,full vellum boards,with gilt designs on sides and 
 back by Charles Ricketts,whose monogram " C R" appears in the bot- 
 tom left-hand corner of the front-cover; and in the bottom left-hand 
 corner of the under-cover appears the monogram of the binders,Leigh- 
 ton, Son and Hodge; uncut. Size of leaf, 8^ by 6^ inches. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation:Two blank leaves ; Half-title,"The Sphinx,"one leaf (ver- 
 so " The Edition Of This Book Is Limited For England To 200 Cop- 
 ies All Rights Reserved"); Dedication," To Marcel Schwob,"one leaf 
 (verso blank); Title as above, in black, red, and green, one leaf (verso) 
 (recto blank); Text, fourteen leaves, the verso of the last being blank; 
 Imprint, one leaf (verso blank); Two blank leaves. There is neither 
 pagination, nor any signature marks. 
 
 There are nine full-page plates including the title, and one half-page 
 plate, all printed in light red. The running titles are also in red. The 
 title, "The Sphinx By Oscar Wilde,"and the text are in black; a large 
 decorated initial " I " to the first line of the poem and twelve fancy ini- 
 tial capital letters, one at the beginning of each section, the catch words, 
 and the imprint on title are in bright green.The text is printed through- 
 
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 out in small capitals. The first letter of each line and the continuation 
 of the first word of each section are in larger capitals. 
 Fifty additional copies were printed for the press and for sale in Amer- 
 ica. 
 
 The last two stanzas have been set to music under the title of "False 
 Sphinx," in" Two Songs," by Henry C. ff.Castleman ( Weekes & Co.), 
 
 I9I3- 
 
 This poem appeared September 29th, 1894, and was the last work of 
 
 Wilde's published before he was to breathe the foul and fetid air of jail 
 
 and suffer the ignominy of confinement within prison walls. 
 
 There seems to be some doubt as to when " The Sphinx " was written. 
 
 In the opening stanzas of the poem he alludes to his age: 
 
 "... I have hardly seen 
 Some twenty summers cast their green for 
 Autumn's gaudy liveries." 
 
 If these lines have any biographical significance, the poem would seem 
 to belong among his earliest works. The like reference appears in the 
 Newdigate Prize Poem, " Ravenna" (1878), Part VI , pages 14-15: 
 
 "One who scarce has seen 
 Some twenty summers cast their doublets green, 
 For Autumn's livery." 
 
 StuartMasonin"ABibliographyofthePoemsofOscarWilde"(i907), 
 pages 74-75, says : "Altogether some dozen passages of Ravenna are 
 taken more or less verbatim from poems published before 18 78, while 
 no instance is found of HnesintheNewdigatePrizePoembeingrepeated 
 in poems admittedly of later date,and this seems fairly strong proof that 
 the lines in The Sphinx (if not the whole poem) ante-date Ravenna." 
 Mr. Ernest Newman in an appreciation of Oscar Wilde in "The Free 
 Review" (June, 1 895), says: "This I hardly think possible. The man 
 who could write such poetry at the age of twenty is little short of the 
 highest genius." 
 
 M r. Robert Ross in a note to some of the later editions of "The Sphinx" 
 says that the poem was written before Oscar Wilde's first volume was 
 published in 1 8 8 1 ,and that the author always told him that it was com- 
 posed and written in Paris,in 1 8 74-Wilde was born in 1 8 54,which would 
 
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 lend some support to the biographical allusion in the lines above quoted. 
 But Sherard denies this and he was with Wilde when the poet was oc- 
 cupying a suite of rooms on the second floor of the Hotel Voltaire,Quai 
 Voltaire, overlooking the Seine and the Museum of the Louvre, and 
 he states that Wilde gave him the impression that it was an entirely 
 new work. Wilde was twenty-eight at that time. 
 
 It is very possible that the poem was commenced while he was at Mag- 
 dalen College and later completed in Paris. Robert Ross tells us that 
 the poem was polished and improved in 1889, "after he had unearthed 
 the MS. from an old despatch box at Tite Street in my presence." 
 There is no doubt but that Baudelaire suggested and inspired the work. 
 An early draft of the poem shows it originally to have been written in 
 quatrain form, but later the form was changed to consist of two instead 
 of four lines; the metre, nevertheless, is that ofTennyson's"In Me- 
 moriam," one which Wilde followed in many of his other poems. 
 The publication of the work shocked the moralists of the press and the 
 public generally. It has been called "decadent," a much abused word 
 and of doubtful application to "The Sphinx." Lord Alfred Douglas 
 calls it poisonous. It is a bizarre and an artificial work, a fantasy, a phan- 
 tasmagoria, embracing the entire Egyptian mythology, in which again 
 the poet shows his extreme versatility. 
 
 Doubtless many hours were passed by Wilde in the Egyptian section 
 of the Louvre, studying in minutest detail the treasures found therein, 
 the result of which labor went later to embellish his wonderful poem. 
 The final draft of "The Sphinx" is now in the British Museum, pre- 
 sented to the trustees by Robert Ross, Wilde's literary executor, to 
 whom it had previously been given by Mr. C. Ricketts. 
 References: DeRicci, The Book Collector s Guide (1 92 i),pp. 63 2-633 » 
 Mason y Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde {\ 907)^.71-72 ; Ma- 
 son, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1914), pp. 392-394^0. 361 ; John 
 Henry Wrenn Library Catalogue (1 92o),Vol.V, p. 13 8. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The || Sphinx. || By || Oscar Wilde || [Ornament and device.] | 
 London. A.D. 1901.H Privately || Printed. 
 
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 Condition : Small 4 , purple wrappers folded over a stiff card, printed 
 in black, uncut. Size ofleaf, 9^ by 7^ inches. 
 
 Pirated Edition. 
 
 CoLLATiON:Twoblankleaves;Half-title,"The Sphinx, "one leaf(ver- 
 
 so "Only 300 copies of this work have been printed : 250 on Antique 
 
 Paper,and 50 on Japanese Vellum. No. 51."); Title as above, one leaf 
 
 (verso dedication to Marcel Schwob); Text, Ai-[H3] (verso emblem), 
 
 in fours, leaves 1 -31; "Finis," with two emblems, [H4] (verso blank), 
 
 leaf32. 
 
 On the verso of each leaf used alternately are the designs of the head 
 
 and the crucifix which appear on the title-page. 
 
 Many misprints and omissions occur throughout the text. 
 
 References: Mason, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1907), 
 p. 73, No. I; Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (i9i4),pp. 550-551, 
 No. 621. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The Sphinx || By Oscar Wilde || Illustrated And Decorated || By 
 Alastair||London: John Lane,The Bodley Head || New York: 
 John Lane Company: MCMXX 
 
 Condition : 8°, white canvas boards,with a design stamped in gold and 
 blue on front-cover, gilt back, gilt top, uncut. Size ofleaf, 1 1 ^ by 8 ^ 
 inches. 
 
 Limited Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, one leaf (verso list of works by Oscar Wilde), 
 pp. [ 1 ]-[2] ; Title as above,in green and black, one leaf (verso "This edi- 
 tion is limited to 1,000 copies and cannot be reprinted, as the stones 
 from which the offset plates were printed were in Belgium at the time 
 of the German invasion, and were destroyed," and imprint),pp.[3J-[4] ; 
 " List Of Illustrations," one leaf (verso blank),pp.[5]-[6] ;Note by Rob- 
 ert Ross, dated April 19,191 o,one leaf (verso blank),pp.[7]-[8] ; Second 
 half-title, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [9]-[io] ;Text, Ai-Di,in fours, 
 pp. II-36. 
 
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 There are twelve full-page illustrations printed in black and blue. Ten 
 of these are enumerated in the list of illustrations, each protected by a 
 tissue-guard on which is printed the subject of the drawing.There are 
 also thirteen initial letters. All of these illustrations are of a most fan- 
 tastic character. 
 
 [WILDE, Oscar.] 
 
 The 1 1 Ballad of Reading Gaol 1 1 By 1 1 C. 3. 3. 1 1 Leonard Smithers 1 1 
 
 Royal Arcade London W||Mdcccxcviii 
 
 Condition: 8°, cinnamon colored linen boards, white linen back let- 
 tered in gold, uncut. Size of leaf, 8^ by 5^ inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: " Of this Edition eight hundred copies have been printed 
 on handmade paper, and thirty copies on Japanese vellum" and copy- 
 right notice, Ai(verso) (recto blank); Half-title,"TheBallad Of Read- 
 ing Gaol," [A2] (verso blank) ;Title as above,[A3] (verso blank); Dedi- 
 cation, [ A4] (verso blank) ; Text, B 1 - [ I3 ] (verso blank), leaves 1 -3 1 ; 
 Blank leaf, [I4], leaf [32]. In fours.The verso of each leaf in the text is 
 blank, and the leaves only are numbered. Though no imprint appears, 
 this book, according to Mason, was printed on Dutch hand-made paper, 
 water-marked "Van Gelder," at the Chiswick Press. 
 There are numerous variations in the texts of the first and second edi- 
 tions respectively; all subsequent impressions and most reprints follow 
 the text of the second edition. 
 
 The person" C.T. W.," to whom this volume was dedicated,was Charles 
 T. Woodbridge,who was put to death in Reading Gaol for the murder 
 of his wife, Ellen Woodbridge, at Windsor. 
 
 Translations have been published in French,German,Spanish,modern 
 Greek, and in Yiddish. 
 
 Douglas claims to have assisted Wilde materially in composing this bal- 
 lad and makes the statement in his "Oscar Wilde and Myself" (19 14) 
 that there are passages in it which Wilde "lifted holus-bolus" from a 
 poem of his own. 
 The material for the poem was gathered while Wilde was in prison, but 
 
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 it was not written until after his release, when a rough draft was made 
 by him in the summer or autumn of 1 897 at Berneval, near Dieppe. He 
 afterward revised it in Naples and in Paris, and it was finally published 
 in 1 898 under the pseudonym of "C.3.3.," which was his prison num- 
 ber, meaning cell three on the third landing of gallery C. 
 The poem was inspired by A.E.Hausman's poem entitled" A Shrop- 
 shire Lad," but the works Wilde modeled after were Coleridge's "An- 
 cient Mariner," and Hood's "The Dream of Eugene Aram." 
 
 The critics received the work with much praise. "The Times," which 
 represented the puritanical sentiment of the English press, commended 
 it in eulogistic terms. It was powerfully reviewed in "The Nineteenth 
 Century," forjuly, 1 904,by Lady Currie in an article entitled " Enfants 
 Trouves of Literature." It is she who writes that a friend of hers, who 
 wasjudged to be an authority, had told her that he thought certain pas- 
 sages in the poem, by reason of their terrible, tragic intensity, should 
 be placed upon a level with some of the descriptions in Dante's "In- 
 ferno," except that the ballad was so much more infinitely human. In 
 theintroductiontoAndreGide's"StudyofOscarWilde"(i905),trans- 
 lated by Stuart Mason, a criticism of a reviewer in a London journal is 
 quoted as follows: "The whole is awful as the pages of Sophocles. That 
 he has rendered with his fine art so much of the essence of his life and 
 the life of others in that inferno to the sensitive, is a memorable thing 
 for the scientist, but a much more memorable thing for literature.This 
 is a simple, a poignant, a great ballad, one of the greatest in the English 
 language." 
 
 Even Lord Alfred Douglas, who in his book has rarely anything kind 
 to say of Wilde's writings,admits:"It is sufficient for us that,in the 'Bal- 
 lad of Reading Gaol ' we have a sustained poem of sublimated actuality 
 and of a breadth and sweep and poignancy such as had never before been 
 attained in this line." He contends however that on this poem alone 
 will Wilde's reputation as a poet live. 
 
 Wilde never could have written this poem had he not suffered the 
 agony, the torture, and the horror of a living death during his incarcer- 
 ation in ReadingGaol. His experience there had transformed the man's 
 
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 character so that it had acquired a compassionate sympathy for human 
 surTering.There is nothing of persiflage nor of insincerity in this work- 
 nothing of the bizarre which was wont to mar his earlier poems. It is 
 regarded as the strongest invective against capital punishment in any 
 literature. 
 
 This was the last work written by Wilde after his release from Reading 
 Gaol. He made some hack translations and revised one or two of his 
 works for publication. But his creative spirit had been broken and never 
 again until his death could he lift himself out of the rut of otiosity into 
 which he had fallen. 
 
 References: DeRicci,?"^ Book Collector s Guide (1921)^.633; Ma- 
 son, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (iQC>7)jpp.76-77,No.I,i; 
 Mason,Bibliography of 'Oscar Wilde (19 1 4),pp.407-408,No.3 7 1 ; Wide- 
 ner Catalogue (Rosenbach) (1 9 1 8),p. 279. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The 1 1 Ballad of Reading Gaol 1 1 By 1 1 C. 3 . 3 . 1 1 Leonard Smithers 1 1 
 Royal Arcade London W|| Mdcccxcviii 
 
 Condition: 8°; description agrees with the first edition in every re- 
 spect. 
 
 Second Edition. 
 
 Collation: Description agrees with the first edition, with the follow- 
 ing exceptions: On the verso of Ai,the statement of limited edition 
 is omitted and the date of copyright is changed to February, 1898; on 
 the verso of the title-page is printed "Second Edition." 
 This was an edition of 1000 copies printed February 24, 1 898, and the 
 text differs in numerous respects from that of the first edition. 
 References: Nlzson, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1 90 7), 
 p. 77, No. II; M.zson y Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (i9i4),pp. 417-419, 
 N0.373. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The || Ballad of Reading Gaol || By || C. 3. 3. || [Oscar Wilde] || 
 Leonard Smithers || London || Mdcccxcix 
 
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 Condition: 8°,cinnamon linen boards,white linen back lettered in gilt, 
 uncut. Size of leaf, 8^ by 5 5^ inches. 
 
 Eighth Edition. 
 
 Collation: Description agrees with that of the second edition in every 
 respect. 
 
 In this copy the address of Leonard Smithers' is omitted on the title- 
 page as he was at this time a bankrupt. The book was printed by G. 
 Woolley,of 137 Dalling Road,Hammersmith,W.,who printed many 
 of the piracies for which Smithers was held responsible. 
 On page 24, stanza three, line 5, the word "not" should read "but"; 
 other slight variations may be noticed in the arrangement of lines on 
 pages 4, 6, 1 2, 1 5, 1 6, and 25. 
 
 References: ^A2iSon,Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar JVilde{ 1 907), p. 
 79,No.VI 1 1; Ma.sor\,Bib/iography ofOscarWilde ( 1 9 1 4),p-53 1 ,No. 5 84. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The Ballad Of || Reading Gaol || By C.33 || Brentano's || New 
 York 191 o 
 
 Condition: 1 6°, gray paper boards with white paper label lettered in 
 black within a single ruled border in red on front-cover, white paper 
 label on back. Size of leaf, 6% by 3 finches. 
 
 Collation : Half-title,"The Ballad Of Reading Gaol,"one leaf (verso 
 blank) ;Title as above,in red and black,one leaf (verso blank) ;" I n Me- 
 moriam,"one leaf (verso blank); Second half-title,one leaf (verso blank); 
 Text,[sig.ii]-[sig. 2^] (verso blank), in sixteens, leaves 1-39. 
 Each leaf is numbered and the verso of each is blank. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The || Ballad of Reading Gaol || By || C. 3. 3. || [Publisher's de- 
 vice.] || Published by Brentano's at || 3 1 Union Square New York 
 [n.d.] 
 
 Condition : 1 6°,yellow linen boards with ornamental design in red and 
 black,gilt top,uncut. Size of leaf, 6 % by 3 finches. 
 
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 Collation : Half-title," The Ballad Of Reading Gaol,"one leaf (verso 
 blank);Title as above,in red and black,one leaf (verso blank);"In Me- 
 moriam C.T.W.,"one leaf (verso blank); Text, sig. ii-[sig.3 7 ], in six- 
 teens, leaves 1-39 (verso of each leaf blank); Imprint, [sig. 3 s] (verso 
 blank). 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Ave Imperatrix! || A Dirge Of || Empire By || Oscar Wilde || 
 [Printer's device.] || Snohomish Washington || 1902 
 
 Condition: 1 6°, Japanese vellum boards, red silk doublures and ties, 
 uncut. Size of leaf, 7 by 4^ inches. 
 Limited Edition. 
 
 Collation :Two preliminary blank leaves ;Title as above,in black and 
 red, one leaf (verso blank) ; Foreword, signed "John D. Clancy, Seat- 
 tle,i902,"one leaf (verso blank); Title of frontispiece, in red,oneleaf 
 (verso blank); Text, thirty-one leaves (verso of each leaf blank); Colo- 
 phon, one leaf (verso blank); Printer's device,in red and black,one leaf 
 (verso blank); Two blank leaves. 
 
 This edition is limited to 150 copies, this being No. 1 10. 
 There are no signature marks and no pagination. 
 The frontispiece, on glazed paper and within an ornamental colored 
 border, is by John Dennis Clancy. 
 
 The book is printed by Will H.Ransome,at the Hand-Craft Shop. 
 Each stanza is within a like design and begins with an illuminated ini- 
 tial letter, as do also the foreword and colophon. 
 This poem is acknowledged by all critics to be one of the greatest war 
 paeans ever written in the English language. Surely neither Tennyson 
 nor Kipling has done anything comparable with it. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf || L' Envoi || By || Oscar Wilde || Lon- 
 don || Printed for Private Circulation || Mdcccciiii 
 
 Condition: 8°, with green printed wrappers and ornamental border, 
 stitched, uncut. Size of leaf, 7^ by 4^ inches. 
 
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 Collation: Cover-title, one leaf (verso blank); Half-title, "Rose-leaf 
 and Apple-leaf L'Envoi By Oscar Wilde," [Ai j] (verso blank), pp. 
 [i]-[2];Titleasabove,in red, black, and green, [A i 2 ] (verso blank),pp. 
 [3]-[4];"The issue consists of 200 copies, of which this is No. 149," 
 Aii (verso blank), pp. [5]-[6] ; Text, with ornamental head-piece and 
 initial letter,[A2 2 ]-[A8!],in duplicate signatures of twos and sixes, pp. 
 7-30; Blank leaf, [A8 2 ]. 
 
 This edition published by "Wright and Jones," merely contains a re- 
 print of Oscar Wilde's introduction (" L'Envoi " ) to " Rose-leaf and 
 Apple-leaf,"a book of poems by Mr.Rennell Rodd published in Phil- 
 adelphia,in 1 8 8 2. This is the first publication in England of this poem. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The Harlot's House 1 1 By Oscar Wilde 1 1 Privately Printed || 1 905 
 
 Condition: Small 4°,gray wrappers, printed in black, on hand-made 
 paper, stitched,uncut. Size of leaf,7^ by 51^ inches. 
 
 Privately Printed Edition. 
 
 Collation : Cover-title as above (verso blank) ;Title as above,one leaf 
 (verso blank);Text,pp. 1-3 ; Blank,p. [4] ; Blank leaf,pp. [5]-[6].There 
 are no signature marks. 
 
 This edition was printed for private circulation and was not put on the 
 market as were the pirated issues of Smithers," Wright and Jones," 
 Carrington, etc. A few copies were sold at one shilling. 
 
 The"Harlot's House" was written atabout the same time as was"The 
 Sphinx,"whenWildewas living at the Hotel Voltaire, Paris. It was first 
 published April 1 1, 1885, inVol. I, No. 1 1, of "The Dramatic Review. 
 A Journal of Theatrical, Musical and General Criticism," where it ap- 
 pears to have been lost sight of for some years. Wilde, in this poem, is 
 more individualistic and original and the influence of others is not so 
 noticeable as is the case in others of his poems; yet undoubtedly the 
 source of the inspiration is Baudelaire. The form is short and lyrical 
 in style; it is exotic in its appeal and altogether impish, sinister, and 
 unwholesome, yet not decadent in the usual acceptation of that word. 
 
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 References: Mason,Biblwgraphy oft he Poems of Oscar Wilde (iQ07),p. 
 6o,N o.II ;Mason t BiMiography 0/ Oscar Wilde (1914),^- 539,^ 0.596. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The Harlot's House 1 1 By 1 1 Oscar Wilde 1 1 Illustrations by| | Althea 
 Gyles 1 1 [Printer's device.] 1 1 John W. Luce And Company 1 1 Bos- 
 ton MCMX 
 
 Condition: 8°,maroon boards,figure and lettering stamped in gilt on 
 front-cover,uncut. Size of leaf, %yi by 6 inches. 
 Pirated Edition. 
 
 Collation: Preliminary blank leaf; Half-title," The Harlot's House," 
 one leaf (verso blank); Title as above, in red and black, one leaf (verso 
 blank); Second half-title, one leaf (verso blank); Text, six leaves; Two 
 blank leaves at end. There are no signature marks and no pagination. 
 There is a frontispiece, also four full-page illustrations by Althea Gyles, 
 each with protecting tissue lettered at the bottom in red. 
 Miss Gyles's black and white work nearly reaches to that standard set 
 by Beardsley in depicting an impressionism of the abnormal. The illus- 
 trations are quite in keeping with the endeavor to reach the weird and 
 bizarre so characteristic of the art and letters of that period. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 OscarWilde||Poems||in Prose || [Printer's ornament.] || Paris || 
 Privately Printed || 1 905 
 
 Condition: 8°, cream glazed printed wrappers folded over the end 
 leaves, lettered on back, uncut. Size of leaf, 8^ by 5% inches. 
 Pirated Edition. 
 
 Collation : Cover-title as above,in black and red (verso blank) ; Half- 
 title,"Poems in Prose," one leaf (verso "Fifty copies of this work have 
 been printed on Imperial Japanese paper."); Title as above,in black and 
 red,one leaf (verso blank); "Table ofContents,"one leaf (verso blank), 
 pp.[i]-[2]; Second half-title, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [3]-[4];Text, 
 pp. [5J-3 8 ;Twoblankleaves;Design,back-cover(verso)(recto blank). 
 Pages 8 and 1 8 are blank. 
 
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 The book is printed on thick laid paper; to each chapter there is a deco- 
 rated initial capital in black and red, and head- and tail-pieces in red 
 throughout. 
 
 The text follows that of the "Fortnightly Review," July, 1894, pages 
 22-29. This pirated, edition was published by Charles Carrington. 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1 9 I4),pp. 544-545, 
 No. 609. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Poems In Prose 1 1 By 1 1 Oscar Wilde 1 1 [Publishers' device.] 1 1 Green- 
 wich, Connecticut 1 1 The Literary Collector Press || 1 905 
 Condition : 1 2°, gray boards with white paper labels on front and back, 
 uncut. Size of leaf, 5^ by 4^ inches. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, "Collector Reprints No. 4 Poems In Prose," 
 one leaf (verso statement of limited edition),pp. [ 1 ]-[2] ; Title as above, 
 in red and black,one leaf (verso blank),pp.[3]-[4] ; "Contents," one leaf 
 (versoblank),pp.[5]-[6];Half-title,"TheArtist,"oneleaf(versoblank), 
 pp. [7]-[8] ; Text, one leaf, pp. 9 -1 o; Half-title, "The Doer of Good," 
 one leaf (verso blank),pp.[i i]-[i 2] ; Text, two leaves, pp.13-1 6; Half- 
 title,"TheDisciple,"one leaf (verso blank),pp.[i 7]-[i 8] ;Text,one leaf, 
 pp. 1 9-20; Half-title,"The Master,"one leaf (verso blank),pp.[2 1 ]-[2 2] ; 
 Text, one leaf, pp. 23-24; Half-title, "The House of Judgment," one 
 leaf(versoblank),pp.[25]-[26];Text,threeleaves,pp.27-32;Half-title, 
 "TheTeacher of Wisdom,"one leaf (verso blank),pp.[33]-[34] ;Text, 
 eight leaves (verso of last leaf blank),pp.35-[5o]; Blank leaf at end. 
 
 Of this edition 25 copies wereprintedonjapanese vellum ;thisisNo. 1 2. 
 "Poems in Prose" was published in the "Fortnightly Review," forjuly, 
 1 894, only a few months before Wilde's downfall. Two of them, how- 
 ever,"The House of Judgment" and "The Disciple," had previously 
 appeared in "The Spirit Lamp " for February and June, 1 893, respec- 
 tively. 
 
 Wilde, at the time he wrote these prose works, was at the apogee of his 
 career,intoxicated with success and seemingly mentally unbalanced by 
 reason thereof, his egotism had grown inordinately so much so indeed 
 
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 that no subject seemed to him too sacred for his pen. In these parables 
 he deliberately chose to reach almost to the blasphemous. Who should 
 say him nay— he, the master of prose, the "Lord of Language"? 
 The teachings of these prose poems have been severely condemned. 
 No mere use of the inverted truth in paradoxes for the purpose of at- 
 tracting attention to one's self could justify the preachings in these al- 
 legories. Even Ingleby, one of his greatest admirers and certainly one 
 of the ablest of his literary critics, can find no excuse for them. He calls 
 them "blasphemous" and "horrible with the insane pride of one who 
 has not realized his imminent fall." 
 
 The title,"Poems in Prose," is happily chosen; for the parables are in- 
 deed veritable prose poems, with a beauty and simplicity of expression 
 inspired no doubt by the reading of the Scriptures. They have in them 
 that superlative conversational quality that is preeminently character- 
 istic of Wilde's prose writings. He is said to have recited these stories to 
 his friends on social occasions in orderto amuse or to astound his assem- 
 bled admirers; and those who have been fortunate enough to have heard 
 him at such times have written their impressions of his wonderful gift 
 of conversing and of how the beauty of his voice added charm to his 
 tales so that in recitation they must have appeared more beautiful even 
 than in the printed text. 
 
 [WILDE, Oscar.] 
 To || M.B.J. || [Hampstead: John Rodker, 1920.] 
 Condition: 8°, two leaves folded, uncut. Size of leaf, 9 by 5^ inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Title as above,one leaf (verso note by Stuart Mason, dated 
 May 25, 1 9 20); Text, one leaf (verso blank). 
 There is neither pagination nor signature marks. 
 The manuscript of thispoem heretofore unpublished, according toMr. 
 Mason must have been written before September 4, 1888. The edition 
 was limited to 65 numbered copies (including 15 on Large Paper) of 
 which this is No. 4. 
 
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 WILDE, Oscar. 
 Vera ; 1 1 Or,The Nihilists. 1 1 A Drama 1 1 In Four Acts. 1 1 By 1 1 Oscar 
 Wilde.|| London: || Ranken & Co., Printers, Drury House, || St. 
 Mary-Le-Strand,W.C.|| 1880. 
 
 Condition : 8°, gray printed wrappers. Size of leaf, 7 % by 4 % inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Cover-title as above within a double ruled border, above 
 which is "[Strictly Private.]," printed in black (verso blank); Title as 
 above, [Ai] (verso a Dramatis Personae"), pp.[i]-[2] ; Text, Ai-[E2], 
 ending with imprint, in eights, pp. [3H2; Back-cover blank. 
 Pages 4-51 have the running head-lines across each two pages, "Vera; 
 Or The Nihilists," with the number of the act in each inner margin. 
 On the cover in Wilde's handwriting is the following: "from the au- 
 thor, to a beautiful poet, a sincere republican, and a charming friend—" 
 This copy is not interleaved. It is a small acting edition, the exact num- 
 ber of copies printed being unknown. 
 
 Mason in his bibliograpy on page 249 says that only two copies of this 
 edition are known, but apparently he is in error. The Bruce Ingram 
 copy, from which Mason takes his description, has on its cover an in- 
 scription in Wilde's handwriting; so has this copy. There was a copy 
 sold in the John B. Stetson sale (Anderson sale catalogue, No. 1484, 
 on Friday, April 23, 1 920), without inscription on cover, and this copy 
 was imperfect. 
 
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 This drama was written in 1 88 1, and was to have been produced at a 
 morning performance at the Adelphi Theater, London, on December 
 1 7,with Mrs. Bernard Beere as the heroine ; but three weeks before that 
 date it was announced that "considering the present state of political 
 feeling in England, Mr. Oscar Wilde has decided on postponing, for a 
 time, the production of his drama 'Vera.' " (The World, Nov. 30,1 8 8 1, 
 p. 12.) 
 
 Wilde sailed for America on December 24, 188 1 , arriving in New York 
 earlyin January, 1882. Hetookwith him the manuscriptofthis play and 
 immediately began to make arrangements withMissMariePrescottfor 
 its production. I n April, 1 8 83 , he returned to England, remaining there 
 until August of the same year, when he returned to New York to take 
 charge of the first production of the play. 
 
 The drama was not a success, and ran for only one week at the Union 
 Square Theater,NewYork, though Miss Prescott subsequently toured 
 America with the production, but with indifferent success. 
 
 The entire history of this drama is set out at length in " Mason's Bib- 
 liography of Oscar Wilde" (1 9 14), pages 249-28 1 . 
 
 This play is one of the worst of Wilde's productions, despite the fact 
 that the dialogue evidences some spark that afterwards made its author 
 a man of mark in the theatrical world. 
 
 The play has been characterized by Ingleby as a "Romantic Drama," 
 but in truth it cannot be placed other than as an extreme effort in melo- 
 dramatic writing,and will add no lustre to Wilde's name.That the play 
 was not a success, other than it was badly produced and miserably acted, 
 may probably be traced to the fact that when it was written in 1881, 
 Wilde was not adequately equipped and sufficiently in touch with the 
 technique of dramaturgy. The technique of the drama has always been 
 the "sine qua non" of all dramatic endeavors and Wilde in this partic- 
 ular period of his writing had failed to master it. The attempt was quite 
 beyond his talent as developed at that time and it is not surprising that 
 his creative powers were not equal to the writing of a drama of this char- 
 acter. This play may safely be classed with one of his very few failures 
 in dramatic literature. 
 
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 Anna, Countess de Bremont,in herwork,"Oscar Wilde and HisMoth- 
 er"(i9i i ), pages 37-40, gives a vivid account of her impression of the 
 first performance of the play in NewYork,which is of considerable in- 
 terest in as much as she was an eye-witness of the presentation and has 
 given in herwork herown characteristic description why the play termi- 
 nated in a failure such as it did. 
 REFERENCEs:DeRicci,r^5o^Co//^/orVG«;^(i92i),p.630;Mason, 
 
 Bibliography of Oscar ^/7^(i9i4)>PP-249- 2 53> No -3° 2 - 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 Vera; || Or,The Nihilists. || A Drama || In A Prologue And Four 
 
 Acts.|| By || OscarWilde.|| 1882. 
 
 Condition : 8°,gray printed wrappers,enclosed in a dark blue crushed 
 levant morocco case, gilt, gilt back, with blue watered-silk doublures. 
 The C. L. F. Robinson copy with bookplate. Size of leaf, 7 f£ by 4^ 
 inches. 
 
 Second Edition. 
 
 Collation : Cover-title as above within a double ruled border above 
 which is" [Strictly Private.]," printed in black (verso blank) ; Title as 
 above,[sig.ii](versoblank),pp.[i]-[2];"PersonsInThePrologue"and 
 " Perso ns I n The Play ," [sig. 1 z] (verso blank), pp. [3H4] ;" Prologue," 
 sig.i*,-[sig.i*4](versoblank),pp.[5]-[i2];Text,sig.2,-[sig.5*4](verso 
 blank),in duplicate signatures of twos and fours,pp.[i3]-[6o]. 
 Pages 6-1 1 have the head-line "Prologue"; pages 14-59 have the run- 
 ning head-lines across each two pages,"Vera; || Or,The Nihilists,"and 
 the number of the act on each inner margin. 
 
 On page 1 7,the first letter of the word "Act"and the square brackets are 
 dropped. 
 
 The book is interleaved throughout with twenty-seven leaves of white 
 wove paper water-marked "Arlington Mills." There is neither print- 
 er's nor publisher's name given. 
 
 Inthiseditiontheprologueisprintedforthefirsttimeandthetextshows 
 many variations from that of 1 880. It was printed in America, where 
 Wilde was lecturing during the greater part of 1882. 
 
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 The pirated edition was printed from this edition. 
 
 References :~DeRicci,T/ie Book Collector s Guide ( 1 92 1 ),p.6^o; Mason, 
 
 Bibliography oj "Oscar -Wilde (19 1 4),pp. 253-2 8 1 ^0.303 ; WidenerCata- 
 
 /(? < g-«d , (Rosenbach)(i9i8),Vol.II,p.277. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 Vera ; 1 1 Or,The Nihilists. 1 1 A Drama 1 1 In A Prologue, And Four 
 Acts. 1 1 By 1 1 Oscar Wilde. 1 1 Now first published. 1 1 Privately Print- 
 ed,|| 1902. 
 
 Condition: 8°, gray wrappers, printed in blue,folded over a stiff card, 
 uncut. Size of leaf, 8 5^ by 6^ inches. 
 Pirated Edition. 
 
 Collation: Cover-title: "Vera: || Or,The Nihilists. || A Drama.|| By|| 
 OscarWilde. || Privately Printed."(verso blank) ; Half-title," Vera; Or, 
 The Nihilists," [A 1 ] (verso "Of this work, 200 copies only have been 
 printed, for private circulation. This is No. 1 1."), pp. [i]-[2]; Title as 
 above,[A2](verso"This Play was written in 1 8 8 1 ,and is now published 
 from the author's own copy, showing his corrections of and additions 
 to the original text."),pp.[3]-[4] ;"Persons InThe Prologue"and"Per- 
 sons In The Play," [A3] (verso blank), pp. [5]-[6] ; "Prologue," [A4]- 
 [A7], pp. [7]-i4; Text, [A8]-[E4], in eights, pp. [1 5]~72 ; "Corrections 
 And Additions Made By The Author In His Original Copy," Fi- 
 [F2] (verso blank), pp. [73H76]. Sig. E is four leaves. 
 This edition was published by Leonard Smithers.The only authorized 
 imprint of the play is Metheun's edition,i 9o8,where the play is given in 
 the volume entitled " Salome. A Florentine Tragedy. Vera. London." 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bi&Iiography of Oscar Wilde (191 4),pp- SS I ~55 2 > 
 No. 624. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Op.II.||The||DuchessOfPadua:||ATragedyoftheXVICen- 
 tury 1 1 By 1 1 Oscar Wilde, 1 1 Author Of "Vera," Etc. || Written in 
 Paris in the XIX Ceutury. (sic) || Privately Printed As Manu- 
 script. [1883.] 
 
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 Condition: 8°, new gray green wrappers,'enclosed in dark green cloth 
 folding case, lettered in gilt. Size of leaf, 8^ by 5^ inches. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation -.Title as above,in black and red,one leaf(verso blank),pp. 
 
 [i]-[2];"DramatisPersonae,"oneleaf(versoblank),pp.[3]-[4];"Scena- 
 
 rio,"one leaf (verso blank),pp.[5]-[6];"NoteOnThe Length Of This 
 Play,"signed a O.W.,"oneleaf(versoblank),pp.[7]-[8];Text,infive 
 
 acts, pp. [o]-i22. 
 
 There are no signature marks,or running head-lines. At the end of the 
 text on page 122 is printed: "The end of the "Duchess OfPadua."|| 
 Oscar Wilde. || March 1 5, 1 883, A. D." 
 
 On the title-page is the autographic signature of OscarWilde.Twenty 
 prompt copies were printed at the time of the first production and only 
 four are now known; the present copy being that formerly owned by 
 Minna K.Gale. 
 
 When Oscar Wilde was living in Paris at the Hotel Voltaire in 1 882, 
 masquerading in the fantastic garbs of Balzac and aping his idiosyncra- 
 sies,awaiting some inspiration to fire his mind to creative work,is it not 
 conceivable that there fell into his hands WebsterVDutchesseofMal- 
 fy" ? Always impressionable to suggestion, may not the idea be carried 
 further thatWilde, struck by the title of Webster's play,must needs,in- 
 deed, himself have a "Duchess," and that in this manner "The Duch- 
 ess of Padua" was conceived and born? However, that may be, the fact 
 is that the play was written for Mary Anderson, under an agreement 
 that if accepted,Wilde was to receive the sum of five thousand dollars. 
 The work was completed in March, 18 83, and submitted to the cele- 
 brated actress who, with keen foresight as to its unfitness as a dramatic 
 vehicle, promptly rejected it to Wilde's great chagrin and secret dis- 
 comfiture. 
 
 From the first, Wilde had a peculiar penchant for the stage,and in this 
 connection it is interesting to note, that some ten years later when the 
 play was produced,a few prompt copies of the manuscript were printed 
 and the author with the exuberance ofa novice and spurred on perhaps 
 by a spirit of braggadocio caused to be printed on the title-page"Op. 
 
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 II"; presumably "Vera," produced first but written subsequently, was 
 "Op. I." Wilde in fact never ceased planning for the stage. 
 The play was read for copyright purposes in March, 1 907, by an ama- 
 teur dramatic society connected with St. James's Church,Hampstead 
 Road. 
 
 Its first production was anonymous and presented to the public under 
 the title of"Guido Ferranti,"atthe BroadwayTheatre,New York, Jan- 
 uary 26, 1 891. It had a succes d'estime y b\it held the boards for a few 
 weeks only, though Lawrence Barrett and Miss Minna K. Gale were 
 cast as the principals. 
 
 Nor had the play any success when produced in Hamburg in 1904, 
 though it must be confessed that in that city it was presented under the 
 most difficult and trying circumstances,which perhaps is no just crite- 
 rion as to what success it might have had under more favorable condi- 
 tions. But again when revived in Berlin in 1 906 under more favorable 
 circumstances it was promptly killed by the critics. 
 A young American actress sought to revive the play in 1905 but ne- 
 gotiations fell through not owing to the terms of production which Miss 
 Gale, who held the rights, exacted and which in truth were only twenty- 
 five dollars a week, but for other reasons. Estimation as to its worth for 
 public production may thus be safely conjectured. 
 
 The German version was made by Dr. Max Meyerfeld (Berlin, 1 904). 
 An unauthorized English prose translation from the German has been 
 printed in Paris, London, or in America, and was offered for sale by pi- 
 ratical publishers and unscrupulous booksellers along with other apoc- 
 ryphal works ascribed to Wilde. 
 
 The play had not been published in English until it appeared in Meth- 
 uen's collected edition in 1 908. Elkin Mathews and John Lane in 1 894 
 had announced its publication in uniform style with " Lady Winder- 
 mere's Fan" and "A Woman Of No Importance," but this was fore- 
 stalled by Wilde's arrest and imprisonment. 
 
 This was the first play that Wilde wrote. Sherard calls it a"great play," 
 and many of the author's admirers have placed it along side the great 
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 but contempt.The influence of Victor Hugo and of Victorien Sardou is 
 observable,and the author misses no opportunity to use Shakespeare's 
 stage effects and dramatic conceits. 
 
 The most that can be said of the work is that, although immature and 
 not at all acceptable, it shows the great promise which Wilde afterwards 
 fulfilled. It is a study rather than a fully evolved romance capable of 
 public production ; but it has moments of great poetic imagination. In 
 short, it is fine as literature but fails miserably as a play. 
 References :DeRicci,The Book Collector s Guide (192 1 ), p. 631; Mason, 
 Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (191 4), pp. 326-3 31, No. 312. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Oscar Wilde 1 1 Salome 1 1 Drame En Un Acte 1 1 [Printer's device.] | 
 Paris 1 1 Librairie De L' Art Independant 1 1 1 1 , Rue De La Chaus- 
 see-D'Antin,i 1 ||Londres||Elkin Mathews et John Lane||The 
 Bodley-Head.Vigo-Street.|| 1893 ||Tous droits reserves 
 
 Condition: 8°, original purple wrappers, lettered in silver on front- 
 cover,uncut. Size of leaf,7 % by 5^ inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Cover-title: "Oscar Wilde || Salome|| [Printer's device.]" 
 (verso blank);Two blank leaves ; Half-title,"Salome,"sig. 1 1 (verso im- 
 print),pp.[i]-[2];Title as above, [sig. 1 2 ] (verso blank),pp.[3]-[4]; Dedi- 
 cation, "A mon Ami Pierre Louys," [sig. 1 3 ] (verso blank), pp. [5]-[6] ; 
 " Personnes," [sig. i 4 ] (verso blank),pp. [7]-[8] ; Text, [sig. 1 5 ]-[sig. 6»], 
 in eights, pp. 9-84; "Acheve D'Imprimer||le 6 fevrier 1 893 1| Sur Les 
 Presses De Paul Schmidt || 20,Rue Du Dragon,Paris || [Printer's de- 
 vice.] || Pour le compte de la || Librairie De L'Art Independant || 1 1, 
 Rue De La Chaussee-D'Antin, 1 1 1| Paris," [sig. 6 3 ] (verso blank), pp. 
 [85]-[86]; Blank leaf, [sig. 6 4 ]. 
 
 The device on the cover, title-page, and at the end of the book is by 
 Felicien Rops. 
 
 This is one of 600 copies,500 of which were for sale. Laid in is a signed 
 autographic letter in pencil to a friend, in which Wilde writes of his 
 play, "Salome." 
 
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 " Salome "was written in 1 8 9 1 in the French language, but was not pub- 
 lished until 1 893. Lord Alfred Douglas translated it into English, a no 
 great achievement on his part as it is merely a word for word transcrip- 
 tion's literal, indeed,as one might expect from a schoolboy. It was ac- 
 cepted by Mme. Sarah Bernhardt for production at the PalaceTheatre, 
 London, in 1892, and full rehearsals were in progress. When the cen- 
 sor refused a license for its production, Mme. Bernhardt then took the 
 play to Paris, promising to produce it at her own theater of the Porte 
 St.Martin at the very first opportunity,but failed of her promise. Later, 
 Wilde,while a prisoner awaiting trial and in dire need of money for his 
 defense, offered to sell her the play outright for a comparatively insig- 
 nificant sum ; she evidently did not consider that the investment would 
 be remunerativeand refused the offer.Herjudgment was bad,for the roy- 
 alties that have been earned on the play and on the opera have amount- 
 ed to a considerable sum annually. 
 
 Wilde was very indignant at the refusal of a license for the performance 
 of"Salome,"and threatened to expatriate himself and become a French 
 citizen,which threat he never carried out.The Lord Chamberlain's of- 
 ficer, however, was not himself to blame but was merely carrying out 
 the rule against allowing any play dealing with a Biblical subject to 
 be performed on an English stage; he had no choice in the matter, the 
 fault lay with the Puritanical government of England. Wilde, in an able 
 interview given at the time, attacks the philistine view and attitude of 
 the government. He points out logically how the painter and the sculp- 
 tor are allowed to take their subjects wherever they choose. They may 
 go "to the great Hebrew and Hebrew-Greek literature of the Bible 
 and can paint Salome dancing or Christ on the Cross or the Virgin with 
 her Child. Nobody interferes with the painter. Nobody says/ Painting 
 is such a vulgar art that you must not paint sacred things.' The sculptor 
 is equally free. He can carve St.John the Baptist in his camel-hair and 
 fashion the Madonna or Christ in bronze or in marble as he wills. . . . 
 And the writer, the poet— he also is quite free. ... But there is a Censor- 
 ship over the stage and acting; and the basis of that Censorship is that, 
 while vulgar subjects may be put on the stage and acted, while every 
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 actors, no actor is to be permitted to present under artistic conditions 
 the great and ennobling subjects taken from the Bible. The insult in the 
 suppression of Salome is an insult to the stage as a form of art and not 
 to me." 
 
 "Salome" was first performed by the Theatre de L'Oeuvre, Paris, in 
 1 896, while the author was still in prison. Bernhardt did not appear in 
 it,but Monsieur Lugne-Poe and Lina Munte were cast respectively as 
 Herod and as Salome. Private performances were given in England 
 by the New Stage Club, in 1905, and by the Literary Theatre Club in 
 1 906; in the latter production the stage setting was designed byMr.C.S. 
 Ricketts, a personal friend of Wilde's who was able to thoroughly grasp 
 the spirit of the author's ideals with regard to this romantic drama. 
 
 The play, however, never received a truly artistic setting until it was 
 produced as an opera in Dresden in 1905. The music was composed 
 by Richard Strauss,and the libretto, an incomplete text of the play, was 
 written for the score by Madame Hedwig Lachmann. 
 
 James Huneker, in his "Unicorns" (19 17), says:" It is safe to say the 
 piece— which limps dramatically— would never have been seriously con- 
 sidered if not for the Richard Strauss musical setting." How erroneous 
 this is maybe inferred fromMr.Ross's answer to those critics who spoke 
 of the play as having been "dragged from obscurity" when it was pro- 
 duced in England in 1 905. He says : " In 1 901 , within a year of the au- 
 thor's death, it was produced in Berlin; from that moment it held the 
 European stage. It has run for a longer consecutive period in Germany 
 than any play by any Englishman, not exceptingShakespeare. Its popu- 
 larity has extended to all countries where it is not prohibited. It is per- 
 formed throughout Europe, Asia and America. It is even played in 
 Yiddish." It is a safe prediction that long after Strauss's score is rele- 
 gated to the limbo of the forgotten, Wilde's play will continue to en- 
 thrall and captivate audiences of all nationalities. 
 
 Although Wilde did not write "Salome" for Sarah Bernhardt and of- 
 fered it to her only when she had asked him why he had not written a 
 play for her,it is not drawing too much on one's imagination to conjec- 
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 the play in the French language ? Knowing well Wilde's love of the foot- 
 lights and his predilection for public applause, it is inconceivable that 
 he did not intend the play for production, and who but the divine Sarah 
 could have satisfied him in the role of Salome ? The difficulty of the 
 part,as exampled in the final speech of Salome alone,is one such as de- 
 mands the talents of a consummate actress, and Bernhardt was then in 
 the enjoyment of her maturest powers as an actress and unapproach- 
 able by any other artist of her time.Wilde,in the interview heretofore 
 mentioned, said: "The pleasure and pride I have experienced in the 
 whole affair has been that Madame Sarah Bernhardt, who is undoubt- 
 edly the greatest artist on any stage, should have been charmed and fas- 
 cinated by my play and should have wished to act it. 
 
 "Every rehearsal has been a source of intense pleasure to me. To hear 
 my own words spoken by the most beautiful voice in the world has been 
 the greatest artistic joy that it is possible to experience." 
 
 The play is based on the story of Herodias' daughter dancing before 
 Herod for the head of John the Baptist. An account of the episode is 
 to be found in the sixth chapter of the Gospel of St. Mark and in St. 
 Matthew (xiv. 6); both accounts are extremely terse. Dean Farrar, in 
 his "Life of Christ," reconstructs and amplifies the scene and it is of 
 intense interest to the student. 
 
 Wilde took nothing but the characters, the dancing, and the incident of 
 John the Baptist's head being brought to Salome on a charger. All else 
 is changed and bears no relation to the Biblical story. The author takes 
 a justifiable poetic license in that the fate meted out in the Scripture to 
 Herodias is made to fall upon Salome instead. Here it is Salome and 
 not Herodias who demands the head of the prophet in revenge for hav- 
 ing spurned her advances ; if not in life then in death she would possess 
 him. 
 
 1 1 is interesting to contrast the strong and simple Scriptural description 
 with Wilde's decorative and colorful language. Here,as in the"Sphinx," 
 we observe the author's genius in the use of sensuous expressions en- 
 riched by the employment of jeweled words evidencing his love of ori- 
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 It is doubtful if Wilde would have succeeded in producing the effect 
 he did if the play had been first written in the English language. His 
 French is limited in its scope and the idiom is not that which would 
 have been employed by a French writer.The sentences are short and 
 simple such as French children might use in writing compositions at 
 school. Marcel Schwob, who reviewed the play and made a few slight 
 alterations,did not attempt to harmonize the diction with that demand- 
 ed by the French Academy. To have done so would have been to de- 
 stroy the spontaneity of Wilde's language.Rittemadesomesuggestions 
 of emendation which were, however, not accepted by Wilde, and the 
 latter finally passed it on to Pierre Louys to whom the play is dedicated 
 for final revision. But it is just this simplicity of language that makes 
 such a telling effect. Maeterlinck, a Flammand by race, also wrote in an 
 alien tongue and employed just such simplicity of language in "Les 
 SeptPrincesses." In fact Maeterlinck's influence is felt in the construc- 
 tion and in the atmosphere of the play; Flaubert's also in the exquis- 
 ite imagery of the dialogue. A complete portrait is delineated in a few 
 words, or at most in a few sentences. Constant reiteration of phrases, 
 which ordinarily would have become tiresome,but under Wilde's skil- 
 ful handling enhance the value of the successive scenes and carry the 
 play along smoothly from one incident to another,are ingeniously em- 
 ployed throughout the text.The cumulative effect of these repetitions 
 is prodigious in achieving the results that Wilde intended. Such reit- 
 erations Max Nordau,in his " Degeneration" (1895), has construed as 
 evidence of incurable cretinism; that maybe so in most cases but here 
 they are employed by Wilde purposely as motifs introductory to the 
 successive scenes. 
 
 The play might well have been called "The Drama of the Moon," so 
 often is that satellite invoked and into so many moods is her appearance 
 translated. Each actor's impressions and emotions are reflected in her 
 and by the various interpretations of her appearance is the progress of 
 the play recorded. 
 
 Ingleby says :" The play has been assailed as immoral but this is not 
 so. The setting of an Eastern drama is not that of a Western, and the 
 morals and customs of the East are no more to be judged by a West- 
 
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 ern standard than the Court of Herod to be compared with that of 
 Edward VII." 
 
 The incidents treated in the play are essentially sensual in their nature, 
 but Wilde, with consummate art, has so treated the theme that none 
 but those who are seeking the suggestive can reasonably take objec- 
 tion. Acted badly, with an appeal to the baser feelings, it may, as any 
 work can, be debased to a degree of degradation that should justly re- 
 ceive the denunciation of the public.The play may be unmoral or non- 
 moral; it cannot be said to be immoral in any sense of the word. 
 Perhaps, as has been suggested, the Beardsley illustrations have had 
 much to do with the prejudices against the play. Many of the illustra- 
 tions are in no wise descriptive of the text. Beardsley,at the time he drew 
 these pictures for the first English edition of the play in 1 894, was not 
 on friendly terms with Wilde, and even went so far as to caricature him 
 in the illustrations. The pictures are grotesque and fantastic. Sugges- 
 tiveness appears in them all,in the voluptuous forms of the women,in 
 the diabolical representation of satyrs with lecherous and leering faces, 
 all repellant and offensive to good taste, but cleverly executed. 
 " Salome" is a great picture, an extraordinary work of art. It is excep- 
 tional as a drama, but as mere literature it will find its place among the 
 classics. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (i9i4),pp. 369-370, 
 N0.348. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. [DOUGLAS, Alfred, Lord, Translator.] 
 Salome || A Tragedy In One || Act: Translated || From The 
 French || Of Oscar Wilde: || Pictured By || Aubrey Beardsley || 
 London: Elkin Mathews || & John Lane || Boston: Copeland 
 & Day || 1894 
 
 Condition : Small 4 , blue buckram boards, gilt ornaments impressed 
 on sides, gilt back, uncut. Size of leaf, 8 */£ by 6 inches. 
 First English Edition, first issue. 
 
 CoLLATiON:Preliminary blank leaf;Half-title, a Salome,"one leaf (verso 
 "Of this edition 500 copies have been printed for England"); Title as 
 
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 above within border design by Beardsley,one leaf (verso imprint) ;Ded- 
 ication,"To My Friend Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas The Translator 
 Of My Play,"one leaf (verso blank);"The Persons Of The Play," one 
 leaf (verso blank);" List Of The Pictures," within border design by 
 Beardsley, one leaf (verso blank) ; Text, Ai-[l2J (verso imprint), in 
 fours,pp.[i]-[68];"ListofBooksinBellesLettresi894,"[sig.i I ]-[sig.2 4 ] 
 (verso printer's device and imprint), pp. [i]-[i 6] ; Sig.I is misprinted E. 
 
 There are ten full-page plates printed on glazed paper from line blocks, 
 engraved by C[arl] H [entschel] from designs by Aubrey Beardsley,the 
 frontispiece being protected by tissue-guard. The elaborate borders on 
 the title-page and on the page containing the list of pictures are also 
 engraved by Hentschel from designs by Beardsley whose designs are 
 on the covers. 
 
 Plates Nos. i, 4, 5, and 6 contain caricatures of Wilde. 
 
 Accompanying this volume is a portfolio containing seventeen plates 
 first designed by Beardsley for " Salome," six of which were rejected for 
 the first edition but were finally issued with the edition of 1 904 (Mel- 
 moth). The plates are in a portfolio of gray boards, vellum back and cor- 
 ners, with design and lettering in gold on front-cover, green silk ties. 
 Folio. 
 
 References: DeR'icci,The Book Collector s Guide (1921)^.632; Hoe 
 Catalogue (1905), Vol. II, p. 204; Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde 
 ( 1 9 14), pp. 378-3 8 1 , No. 3 50 ; John Henry Wrenn Library Catalogue 
 (i92o),Vol.V,p.i 3 8. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. [DOUGLAS, Alfred, Lord, Translator^ 
 Salome || A Tragedy In One || Act: Translated || From The 
 French || Of Oscar Wilde: || Pictured By || Aubrey Beardsley || 
 London: Elkin Mathews ||& John Lane || Boston: Copeland & 
 Day || 1894 
 
 Condition: Small 4°,green silk boards, gilt, with lettering and designs 
 as in the first issue, uncut. Size of leaf, 8fs by 6 x /2 inches. 
 First English Edition, second issue. 
 
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 Collation : Description agrees in every respect with the first issue ex- 
 cept that the verso of the half-title reads :" Of this edition ioo copies 
 have been printed for England." Signature I is corrected in this edition. 
 The illustrations are on Japanese vellum. 
 
 References: Hoe Catalogue (1905), Vol. III,p. 204; Mason, Bibliog- 
 raphy of Oscar Wilde (1914), pp-3 80-3 8 2, No. 351. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Salome || A Tragedy In One || Act : Translated || From The 
 
 French || Of Oscar Wilde: || Pictured By || Aubrey Beardsley || 
 
 San Francisco : || The Paper Covered || Book Store || 1 896 
 
 Condition: 1 2°, white glazed pictorial wrappers, wired,uncut. Size of 
 
 leaf, 6 by 4^ inches. 
 
 Collation: Cover-title as above within a decorative border, one leaf 
 
 (verso blank); Half-title, "Salome," one leaf (verso "The Persons Of 
 
 The Play"),pp.[i]-[2];Text,pp.[3]-7i; Advertisement and imprint, 
 
 p. [72] ; Design, back-cover (verso) (recto blank). 
 
 There are ten full-page illustrations,a pictorial list of the pictures, and 
 
 one illustration each on back- and front-cover, all byAubreyBeardsley. 
 
 This edition, the first to be issued in San Francisco, was published by 
 Warren E. Price. He went to New York in 1 901, and it is of curious 
 interest to note that his successor in business was one Robert Ross. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. [DOUGLAS, Alfred, Lord translator \ 
 Salome || A Tragedy In One Act: || Translated From The || 
 French Of Oscar Wilde 1 1 Pictured By 1 1 Aubrey Beardsley 1 1 Lon- 
 don || Melmoth & Co. || 1 904 
 
 Condition: 8°,blue linen boards,gilt back, uncut.TheWalterThomas 
 Wallace copy with bookplate. Size of leaf, 8 ^ by 6^ inches. 
 Pirated Edition, first issue. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, "Salome," [sig. ii] (verso "Of this Work 250 
 copies have been printed on handmade paper, of which this is No. 17 
 There is also an Edition on Japanese vellum limited to 50 copies,each 
 
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 numbered."), pp. [i]-[2];Title as above, within ornamental borders by 
 Beardsley, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [3H4] ;" List Of The Pictures," 
 within ornamental borders by Beardsley,one leaf (verso blank), pp. [5]- 
 [6] ; Cover-design, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [7]-[8] ; " The Persons Of 
 The Play," [sig. ij (verso blank), pp. [9]-[io] ; Text, [sig. i 3 ]-[sig. 5 3 ] 
 (verso blank), in eights, pp. 1 1-[76]; Blank leaf. 
 
 There are sixteen full-page plates, printed on glazed paper, of Beards- 
 ley's original illustrations, the list of which is given on the second plate. 
 These are reproduced from the 1894 edition except Nos. 1,7, and 13, 
 which are taken from the early works of Aubrey Beardsley, 1 899, and 
 are included in the edition of"Salome"published by John Lane in 1 907. 
 These drawings were prepared for the 1 894 edition but were cancelled. 
 
 Reference: ~Ma.son,BibIiography ofOscarWilde (1 9 i4),p.547,No.6 1 5. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. [DOUGLAS, Alfred, Lord, Translator^ 
 Salome || A Tragedy In One Act: || Translated From The || 
 French OfOscarWilde || Pictured By || Aubrey Beardsley || 
 London || Melmoth & Co. || 1904 
 
 Condition: 8°, blue buckram boards, lettered in gilt on back, uncut. 
 Size of leaf, 9 by 7^ inches. 
 Pirated Edition, second issue. 
 
 Collation: Description agrees with the preceding copy except that 
 this is the edition of 50 copies on Japanese vellum and is No. 14, as 
 stated on the verso of the half-title. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (19 14), pp. 547- 548, 
 N0.616. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Salome 1 1 ATragedy In One Act : Trans-| | lated FromThe French 
 Of 1 1 Oscar Wilde, With Sixteen || Drawings By Aubrey Beards- 
 ley || London: John Lane, The Bodley Head || New York: John 
 Lane Company, M CM VI I 
 Condition: 8°, original light green cloth, with a design by Beardsley 
 
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 stamped in gilt on front-cover, lettered in gilt on back, gilt top,uncut. 
 Size of leaf, 8j4 by 6^ inches. 
 
 Collation: Two preliminary blank leaves, [Ai]-[A2], pp. [i]-[iv]; 
 Half-title, "Salome," [A3] (verso blank), pp. [v]-[vi]; Title as above 
 within an elaborate border on Japanese vellum,one leaf inserted (verso 
 blank), pp. [vii]-[viii] ; Reproduction of cover design on Japanese vel- 
 lum, one leaf inserted, pp. [ix]-[x];" The Persons Of The Play," [A4] 
 (verso blank), pp. [xi]-[xii] ; " A Note On* Salome,'" by Robert Ross, 
 [A5]-[A7],pp.xiii-xviii;"List Of The Pictures By Aubrey Beards- 
 ley,"on Japanese vellum, one leaf inserted (verso blank),pp.[xix]-[xx] ; 
 Half-title," Salome," [A8] (verso blank),pp.[xxi]-[xxii]; Text, Bi-F 1, 
 ineights,pp.i-[66]; Advertisements,[F2],pp.[67]-[68]. 
 There are sixteen full-page plates, including frontispiece, title-page, 
 cover design, and list of pictures as called for in the list of illustrations, 
 all printed on Japanese vellum from new plates. 
 The imprint mentioned by Mason in his bibliography does not appear 
 in this copy. 
 
 Inserted between page xxii and the first page of the text are two leaves ; 
 on the recto of the first leaf is the cast of the first production in En- 
 gland by the New Stage Club, May 10 and 13,1905; on the verso and 
 the recto of the next leaf is a facsimile of the play-bill of the original 
 production of the opera, " Salome," by Richard Strauss, at the Konig- 
 liches Opernhaus,Dresden, December 9,1 905; the verso of the second 
 leaf is blank. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (i9i4),pp.382-384, 
 N0.355. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Salome 1 1 A Tragedy In One Act 1 1 By 1 1 Oscar Wilde 1 1 Drawings 
 By || Aubrey Beardsley ||John W. Luce & Company || Boston || 
 1907 
 
 Condition : 8°, black cloth boards, design and lettering impressed in 
 gilt on front-cover,uncut. Size of leaf, 7^ by 5*^ inches. 
 Collation :Title as above within ornamental border by Beardsley,one 
 
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 leaf (verso blank); List of drawings within ornamental borders, one leaf 
 (verso blank);"PersonsOfThePlay,"one leaf (verso blank) ;Text,pp. 
 1-36. There are no signature marks. 
 
 The title-page and twelve other full-page drawings by Aubrey Beards- 
 ley, as called for in the list of drawings, are on Japanese vellum and in- 
 serted. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 LadyWindermere'sFan||APlay||AboutAGoodWoman||By|| 
 Oscar Wilde || London || Elkin Mathews And John Lane At || 
 The Sign Of The Bodley Head InVigo||StreetMDCCCXCIII 
 
 CoNDiTiON:Small 4°,lilac linen boards,gilt ornaments by Charles Shan- 
 non impressed on sides, title and imprint lettered in two lines in gilt, 
 respectively at top and foot, with four small florets, uncut. Size of leaf, 
 %y± by 6 inches. 
 First EDiTioN,first issue. 
 
 Collation: Blank leaf,[ai] ;Title as above, [a2] (verso imprint); Dedi- 
 cation,"ToThe Dear Memory Of Robert Earl Of Lytton," [&$] (verso 
 copyright notice);"ThePersons Of ThePlay," [a4] (verso blank);"The 
 Scenes Of The Play," b 1 (verso blank); Cast of the first production, [hi] 
 (versoblank);Half-title," Lady Windermere's Fan,"[b3](verso blank); 
 Half-title, "First Act,"[b4] (verso blank);Text,Ai-Ei,pp. 1-34; Half- 
 title,"SecondAct,"[E2](versoblank),pp.[35]-[36];Text,[E3]-[l3],pp. 
 37-7o;Half-title,"ThirdAct,"[l4](versoblank),pp.[7i]-[72];Text, 
 Ki-[N3] (verso blank), pp. 73-[io2]; Half-title," Fourth Act,"[N 4 ] 
 (verso blank),pp.[i03]-[i04];Text,Oi-[R2],pp. 105-132; "List of 
 Books in Belles Lettres, i893,"[R3]-[T2](verso printer's device and 
 imprint), in fours, pp. [i]-[i6]. 
 
 The date of the first publication of this play was Feb. 9, 1 893 (500 cop- 
 ies). The date of the first production was Feb. 20, 1892, and not Feb. 
 22, as stated on the page containing the cast of the original production, 
 sig. b2. 
 
 Robert,first Earl of Ly tton,to whom the play was dedicated, died Nov. 
 24,1891. 
 
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 Wilde,before the appearance of this play on the boards,had had very lit- 
 tle if any success financially. He had married a woman with an indepen- 
 dent fortune and but for her wealth he would have had great difficulty 
 in maintaining himself in the social set in which he moved. 
 He had long been in the public eye, due mostly to his eccentricities of 
 dress, to his brilliant conversational gifts, and to his more or less sincere 
 posing in matters of various kinds. Of course he had made many ene- 
 mies who,inspired byjealousy and by envy, declared that he had no tal- 
 ent of any kind,that the public was tired of him and would have none 
 of him. 
 
 But with the production of "Lady Windermere's Fan" there came a 
 great change for the better. 
 
 Ransome,in his"Critical Study of Oscar Wilde," says:"Of all the arts 
 that of the drama is most likely to attract the talker for talk's sake." 
 And so it was in Wilde's case. Himself a wonderful talker, he found in 
 the drama his proper milieu.The plot of the play is hackneyed and worn, 
 but it was the wit and the clever epigrams written into the dialogue that 
 spelled success. It was like listening to Wilde himself conversing. He 
 received an ovation after the first performance and, despite the critics, 
 conquered the London public and gave it something entirely new and 
 original. 
 
 The critics, however, attacked him on all sides. Clement Scott in the 
 "Daily Telegraph," "Truth," "Punch," and other papers assailed his 
 work unmercifully. It was said among other things that he stopped the 
 development of the plot,while his puppets in the play indulged in witti- 
 cisms, epigrams, and repartee. Even Mr. Ransome admits that "most 
 of his witty sayings would bear transplanting from one play to another." 
 But when necessity for dramatic action was apparent, the situation was 
 handled most skilfully by the dramatist. 
 
 During the next three years he produced successfully three otherplays. 
 References: DeRicciyT/ie Book Collector's Guide (ig2i),p.63 1\ Mason, 
 Bibliography of Oscar Wilde ( 1 9 1 4), pp. 3 84-3 8 6, No. 3 5 7. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Lady Windermere's Fan || A Play || About A Good Woman || 
 
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 By || Oscar Wilde || London || Elkin Mathews And John Lane 
 At || The Sign Of The Bodley Head In Vigo || Street MDCCC- 
 
 XCIII 
 
 Condition: Small 4°,yellow buckram boards,designs by Charles Shan- 
 non impressed in gilt on sides, lettered in gilt on back, uncut. Size of 
 leaf, 8^ by 6^ inches. 
 First Edition, second issue. 
 
 Collation: The description agrees with the first issue except that the 
 verso of the first leaf reads: "Of this edition fifty copies have been 
 printed." 
 
 References: Hoe Catalogue (iQ05),Vol.III,p.203 ; Mason, Bibliogra- 
 phy of Oscar Wilde ( 1 9 1 4), p. 3 8 7, No. 3 5 8 ; John Henry Wrenn Library 
 Catalogue (1 a2o),Vol.V, p. 13 8. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Lady Windermere's Fan || A Play || About A Good Woman || 
 By II Oscar Wilde || Paris. || 1903. 
 
 Condition : Small 4°,maroon linen boards, gilt lettering on back. Size 
 of leaf, 7 % by 5^ inches. 
 Pirated Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, « Lady Windermere's Fan," [ai] (verso " Edi- 
 tion limited to 250 copies.This is No...."); Title as above, [aa] (verso 
 blank); Dedication to Robert Earl of Lytton,[a3] (verso blank); "The 
 Persons Of The Play," [a 4 ] (verso blank) ;"The Scenes Of The Play," 
 b 1 (verso blank); Cast of the first production,[b2](verso blank) ; Second 
 half-title, [b3](verso blank); Half-title," First Act," [b 4 ] (verso blank); 
 Text, B 1 -F 1, pp. 1-34; Half-title, "Second Act," [F2] (verso blank), 
 PP.[35H36];Text,[F3]-[K3],pp.37-7o;Half-title,"ThirdAct,"[K 4 ], 
 pp.[7i]-[72];Text,Li-[03](verso blank), pp-73-[i02]; Half-title, 
 "Fourth Act," [O4] (verso blank), pp.[i03]-[i04];Text,Pi-[S2], in 
 
 fours, pp. 105-132. 
 
 The lettering on the back of the present copy does not agree with that 
 
 described in Mason's bibliography, page 539,No. 597,although the 
 
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 description in every other respect is the same. It is apparent that either 
 the volume has been rebound and trimmed, or that the entire edition 
 was not uniformly bound. "Lady Windermere's Fan"only is printed 
 on the back, whereas the copy collated in Mason reads " Lady Wind- 
 ermere's Fan" at the top," Oscar Wilde" in the middle, and " 1 903 " at 
 the foot. 
 
 Though dated Paris, 1903, on the title-page, this volume was printed 
 in England, and published by Leonard Smithers. Smithers, in 1899, 
 announced the appearance of a new edition of "Lady Windermere's 
 Fan," but Wilde's death in the following year, and probably Smithers' 
 bankruptcy, prevented its publication ; but this is doubtless the edition 
 referred to in the announcement. 
 
 In July, 1 905, "Wright and Jones," booksellers, 3 50 Fulham Road, 
 S.W.,were enjoined from selling this pirated edition. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (i9i4),pp. 539-540, 
 
 No. 597. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 Lady Windermere's Fan. 1 1 A Play 1 1 In 1 1 Four Acts, 1 1 By 1 1 Oscar 
 Wilde.||All Rights Reserved.] | Copyright, 1 893,ByOscarWilde. 
 
 Condition: 8°, original toned wrappers, printed in red, all edges cut. 
 Size of leaf, 7^ by 4^ inches. 
 
 Acting Edition. 
 
 Collation: Cover-title :" Lady Windermere's Fan.|| A Play||In|| Four 
 Acts,| I By J I Oscar Wilde.| I All Rights Reserved,"printed in red with type 
 ornaments at head of page and under the words " Oscar Wilde" (verso 
 blank);Titleasabove,oneleaf(verso"DramatisPersonae,"etc.);Half- 
 title," Lady Windermere's Fan. Act I," one leaf (verso blank); Text, 
 six leaves,pp. [i]-i 2 ; Half-title," Act 1 1," one leaf (verso blank); Text, 
 six leaves (verso of last leaf blank), pp. [i]-[i2]; Half-title,"Act III," 
 one leaf (verso blank); Text, five leaves (verso of last leaf blank), pp. 
 [ 1 ]-[ 10]; Half-title, "Act IV,"one leaf (verso blank); Text, five leaves 
 (verso of last leaf blank), pp. [i]-[io]; Blank leaf at end; Back-cover 
 blank. There are no signature marks. 
 
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 This acting edition was probably prepared for the production of "Lady 
 Windermere's Fan," at Palmer'sTheater,NewYork,in February, 1893. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (i9 I 4) ) PP-3 88 -39 2 > 
 N0.360. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 A || Woman Of No Importance || By|| Oscar Wilde || London || 
 Elkin Mathews And John Lane At||The Sign Of The Bodley 
 Head In Vigo || Street MDCCCXGIV 
 
 Condition: Small 4°,pink boards,vellum back lettered in gold,uncut. 
 The John B.Stetson Jr.,copy with library label. Size of leaf,7^ by 5^ 
 inches. 
 
 The Proof Copy. 
 
 Collation: Preliminary blank leaf,[ai];Title as above,[a2] (verso im- 
 print) ; Dedication,"To Gladys Countess De Grey," [33] (verso blank) ; 
 "The Persons Of The Play," [a 4 ] (verso blank); "The Scenes Of The 
 Play," b 1 (verso blank) ; Cast of the first production,[b2] (verso blank) ; 
 Half-title, "A Woman Of No Importance," [03] (verso blank); Half- 
 title," First Act," [b 4 ] (verso blank); Text, Ai-[E 4 ] (verso blank), pp. 
 i-[ 4 o];Half-title,"SecondAct,"[Fi](versoblank),pp.[ 4 i]-[42];Text, 
 [F2]-[L2],pp. 4 3-8 4 ; Half-title, "Third Act," [L 3 ] (verso blank),pp. 
 [85H86] ; Text, [L 4 ]-[P3],pp. 87-1 1 8 ; Half-title," Fourth Act," [P 4 ] 
 (verso blank), pp. [ii9]-[i2o]; Text, Q1-U1, in fours, pp. 121-154.; 
 Blank leaf, [U2], one leaf without pagination ; " List of Books in Belles 
 Lettres, London: Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street,W. 1895," [ U 3H Y 4]> 
 pp.[i]-20. 
 
 Laid in this volume is the following letter written on Mathews' station- 
 ery: "Cork Street London,W.Feb 1 1 19H Dear Mr.Haslam I here- 
 with return the twoWildes(i) A Woman of No Importance (2) Ditto- 
 the proof copy If you could see your way to letting me buy back the 
 latter I should be very much obliged Yours truly Elkin Mathews." 
 This is the proof-copy of the earliest issue of the first edition, printed 
 before the dissolution of the firm of Elkin Mathews and John Lane 
 
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 which took place in August, 1 894. It was not published until October 
 9,1894. 
 
 These sheets are of two varieties of paper and were evidently bound for 
 Mathews as his "List of Books in Belles Lettres, 1895" 1S included in 
 the binding.This copy is unique as being the only one which bears the 
 imprint of Mathews and Lane. A prompt-book edition of fifteen copies 
 was printed later in 1 894, but the collations, according to Mason, do 
 not agree nor do the descriptions correspond. 
 
 In the text are numerous editorial corrections, directed principally to- 
 ward Wilde's somewhat loose methods in the misuse of "shall" and 
 "will," and "would" and "should." 
 
 This play was produced by Mr. Herbert Beerbohm Tree at the Hay- 
 market Theatre, April 1 9, 1 893, and held the boards until August 16. 
 This comedy was Wilde's second great success, and brought him in- 
 creased financial rewards and additional fame as a dramatist.lt was won- 
 derfully successful although bitterly attacked by most of the critics. 
 The first act is one long continued conversation between the characters 
 indulging in inverted epigrams, paradoxes, and repartee, all of which 
 have nothing to do with the development of the plot. Only at the end 
 of the act is there even the slightest hint as to what might be expected 
 in the following acts. The audience, it is said, was disconcerted and sur- 
 prised for,from the promise held out in "Lady Windermere's Fan," it 
 had expected greater things in the way of a well worked-out plot of hu- 
 man interest replete with situations of such a character as to hold its 
 attention in the process of its development. Some such incidents and 
 situations do indeed appear in the following acts and it is a great feather 
 in Wilde's cap and an evidence of his great dramatic ability that he was 
 able,by the sheer force of his personality,to hold his audience after the 
 highly artificial atmosphere of the first act. It was a veritable tour de 
 force, probably unexampled in the history of the stage. 
 The casual meeting between Lord Illington and Mrs. Arbuthnot in 
 the second act,between Mrs. Arbuthnot and her son Gerald in the third 
 act, and her later confession that Gerald is the natural son of Lord Ill- 
 ington, and the scene between herself and Lord Illington in the final 
 
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 act, afford dramatic situations of strong emotional character, that are 
 skilfully handled by the dramatist, revealing his histrionic talent to the 
 fullest degree. 
 The play was revived at His Majesty's Theater on May 22, 1907. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 A || Woman Of No Importance || By || Oscar Wilde || London || 
 John Lane At The Sign OfThe||Bodley Head In Vigo Street || 
 MDCCCXCIV 
 
 Condition: Small 4°,lilac linen boards, designs in gilt by Charles Shan- 
 non impressed on sides,gilt lettering and designs on back,uncut. Size of 
 leaf, 8 l /l by 6 inches. 
 First Edition, second issue. 
 
 Co llation : Preliminary blank leaf, [a 1 ] ; Title as above, [a2] (verso im- 
 print) ; Dedication,"To Gladys Countess De Grey," [^] (verso copy- 
 right notice); "The Persons Of The Play," fa] (verso " Of this edition 
 500 copies have been printed. ");"The Scenes OfThe Play," bi (verso 
 blank);The cast of the original production,[b2](versoblank);Half-title, 
 "A Woman Of No Importance," [03] (verso blank); Half-title," First 
 Act,"[b4](verso blank); Text, Ai-[E4](verso blank),pp.i-[4o] ;Half- 
 title,"Second Act," Fi (verso blank),pp.[4i]-[42];Text,[F2]-[L2], pp. 
 43-84; Half-title,"ThirdAct,"[L3](versoblank),pp.[85]-[86];Text, 
 [L4]-[P3],pp.87-n8;Half-title,"FourthAct,"[P4](versoblank),pp. 
 [ii9]-[i2o];Text,Qi-Ui,infours,pp.i2i-i54;Imprint,[U2](verso 
 blank), pp. [1 5 $]-[i 56] ; " List of Books in Belles Lettres, 1 894," eight 
 leaves without signature marks, with printer's device on verso of last 
 leaf,pp.[i]-[i6]. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (19 14), pp. 400 -402, 
 No. 364. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 A || Woman Of No Importance || By || Oscar Wilde || London || 
 John Lane At The Sign Of The ||Bodley Head In Vigo Street || 
 MDCCCXCIV 
 
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 Condition : Small4°,yellow buckram boards,designs in gilt by Charles 
 Shannon impressed on sides,gilt lettering and designs on back,uncut. 
 Size of leaf, 8^ by 6^ inches. 
 
 First Edition, third issue. 
 
 Collation: Preliminary blank leaf, [a i] (verso blank);Title as above, 
 [a2] (verso imprint); Dedication," To Gladys Countess De Grey," [a.3] 
 (verso copyright notice) ;" The Persons Of The Play," [a.4] (verso" Of 
 this edition 50 copies have been printed"); "The Scenes Of The Play," 
 bi (verso blank) ; Cast of the original production, [b2] (verso blank); 
 Half-title, "A Woman Of No Importance," [03] (verso blank) ; Half- 
 title,"FirstAct," [b4] (verso blank) ;Text,Ai-[E4] (verso blank),pp. 1 - 
 [40] ; Half-title, "Second Act," F 1 (verso blank), pp. [4i]-[42] ;Text, 
 [F2]-[L2], pp. 43-84; Half-title, "Third Act," [L3] (verso blank), pp. 
 [8 5]-[8 6] ; Text, [L4HP3], pp. 8 7-1 1 8 ; Half-title, « Fourth Act," [P 4 ] 
 (verso blank),pp. [1 1 o]-[i 20] ; Text,Qi-Ui,in fours,pp. 1 2 1-1 54 ; Im- 
 print, [U2](verso blank), pp. [i55]-[i 56]. 
 
 References: Hoe Catalogue (iqo$),Vo\. Ill, p. 204; Mason, Bibliogra- 
 phy of Oscar Wilde (1 914), pp. 402-403, No. 365. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 A Woman||Of No Importance||By||OscarWilde||Paris|| 1903 
 
 Condition : Small 4 , lilac linen boards, gilt lettering on back, uncut. 
 Size of leaf, 8 */£ by 6 inches. 
 Pirated Edition. 
 CoLLATiON:Half-title,"AWomanOfNoImportance,"[ai](verso"Edi- 
 
 tion limited to 250 copies. This isNo ");Title as above, [a2] (verso 
 
 blank) ; Dedication, "To Gladys Countess De Grey," [a3] (verso blank); 
 "The Persons Of The Play," [a 4 ] (verso blank); "The Scenes OfThe 
 Play," bi (verso blank); Cast of the original production, [b2] (verso 
 blank);Secondhalf-title,[b3](versoblank);Half-title,"FirstAct,"[b4] 
 (verso blank);Text, B i-[F4](verso blank), pp. i-[4o]; Half-title,"Sec- 
 ond Act," Gi (verso blank),pp.[4i]-[42]; Text, [G2]-[M2],pp.43-84; 
 Half-title,"ThirdAct,"[M3](versoblank),pp.[85]-[86];Text,[M 4 ]- 
 [Q3] ) pp.87-n8;Half-title, a FourthAct,''[Q4](versoblank),pp.[ii9]- 
 
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 [i 20] ; Text, R1-X1 , in fours, pp. 1 2 1-1 54; Blank leaf, [X2], pp. [1 55]- 
 
 [156]. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (19 14), pp. 552-553, 
 No. 627. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The 1 1 Importance Of Being Earnest || A Trivial Comedy For || 
 Serious People 1 1 By| |The Author Of 1 1 Lady Windermere's Fan 1 1 
 London || Leonard Smithers And Co || 5 Old Bond Street W|| 
 MDCCCXCIX 
 
 Condition : Small 4°,lilac linen boards, designs in gilt by Charles Shan- 
 non on covers and back, lettered in gilt on back, uncut. The Gilbert 
 Frankau copy with bookplate. Size of leaf, Sj^by 6 inches. 
 First Edition, first issue. 
 
 Collation :Half-title,"The Importance Of Being Earnest," [ai](ver- 
 so blank); Title as above, [a2] (verso imprint); Dedication to Robert 
 Baldwin Ross, [a.3] (verso copyright notice); "The Persons Of The 
 Play," [a4] (verso"One thousand copies of this edition have been print- 
 ed, of which this is No.— ."); "The Scenes Of The Play," bi (verso 
 blank); Cast of the original production, [b2](verso blank); Second half- 
 title,[b3](verso blank); Half-title,"First Act," [04] (verso blank); Text, 
 Bi-[H2](versoblank),pp.i-[52];Half-title,"SecondAct,"[H3](verso 
 blank), pp. [53H54] ; Text, [H 4 ]-[Q 3 ], pp. 55-1 1 8 ; Half-title," Third 
 Act," [Q4] (verso blank), pp. [1 1 9]-[i 20] ; Text, Ri-[U4], ending with 
 imprint, in fours, pp. I2i-[i52]. 
 
 Wilde, in a letter to Smithers, insisted that the format of this book 
 should be uniform with that of the two comedies previously published. 
 The play was produced by George Alexander at the St. JamesTheater, 
 London, on February 14,1 894, and ran for nearly three months. It was 
 revived at the same theater on January 7, 1 902 ; November 30, 1 909 ; 
 June 26,191 1; and on February 15,1913. 
 
 The comedy was written in about a fortnight's time. It is essentially a 
 farce, written with the exuberance of youth, fairly flying with the wings 
 of epigrammatic and scintillating dialogue. There is no pretense to seri- 
 
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 ous plot. Wilde evidently knew his public and felt that he could discard 
 
 situations of dramatic flavor or appeals of emotional character. 
 
 Mr. Ingleby,in his "Oscar Wilde" (1908), calls it "a deliciously airily 
 
 irresponsible comedy." One critic said of it that "its title is a pun, its 
 
 story a conundrum, its characters lunatics, its dialogue a 'galimatias' 
 
 and its termination a ' sell.' " 
 
 It was a tremendous success. Even Wilde's former critics capitulated. 
 
 Theyjoined with the great London public in laughing at his witticisms. 
 
 Wilde now completely dominated the London stage. 
 
 It is interesting to note his own opinion of the play: "The first act is 
 
 ingenious,the second,beautiful,the third abominably clever."(" Black 
 
 and White," February 1 6, 1 895, page 210.) 
 
 References: DeRicci, The Book Collector s Guide (i92i),p. 633 ; Hoe 
 
 Catalogue (i905),Vol.III,p.204; Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde 
 
 (i9i 4 ),pp. 4 27-430,No.38i. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The 1 1 Importance Of Being Earnest || A Trivial Comedy For|| 
 Serious People 1 1 By | |The Author Of 1 1 Lady Windermere's Fan j | 
 London || Leonard Smithers And Co || 5 Old Bond Street W|| 
 MDCCCXCIX 
 
 Condition : Small 4 , lilac linen boards,designs by Charles Shannon in 
 gilt on covers and back, uncut. The A. Edward Newton copy with pic- 
 torial bookplate dated 1909. Size of leaf, 8^ by 7 inches. 
 First Edition, second issue. 
 
 Collation: Description agrees with the above copy in every particu- 
 lar except that the verso of a 4 reads "One hundred copies have been 
 printed on Large Paper, each signed by the Author, of which this is No. 
 5 1," with the autographic signature of Oscar Wilde. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 An Ideal Husband || By || The Author Of|| Lady Windermere's 
 Fan 1 1 London 1 1 Leonard Smithers And Co || 5 Old Bond Street 
 W|| MDCCCXCIX 
 
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 Condition: Small 4°, lilac linen boards, designs in gilt by Charles Shan- 
 non on covers and back, lettered in gilt on back, uncut. Size of leaf, 8^ 
 by 5 //£ inches. 
 
 First Edition, first issue. 
 
 Collation: Half-ti tie," An Ideal Husband," [a 1] (verso blank); Title 
 as above, [a2] (verso imprint); Dedication to Frank Harris, [a.3] (verso 
 copyright notice) ; "The Persons Of The Play," [a4] (verso "One thou- 
 sand copies of this edition have been printed"); "The Scenes Of The 
 Play," b 1 (verso blank) ; The cast of the original production, [b2] (verso 
 blank); Second half-title, [03] (verso blank); Half-title, "First Act," 
 [b4] (verso blank); Text, Bi-[l3] (verso blank), pp. i-[62]; Half-title, 
 "Second Act," [I4] (verso blank),pp. [63]-[64J; Text,Ki-[Q3], pp. 65- 
 118; Half-title," Third Act," [Q 4 ] (verso blank),pp.[ 1 1 q]-[ i 20] ; Text, 
 Ri-[Y4],pp.i2i-i68;Half-title,"FourthAct,"Zi(verso blank),pp. 
 [1 6q]-[i 70] ; Text, [Z^\-[Z^\ and AAi-[EE3] (verso printer's device 
 and imprint), in fours, pp. 1 7 1 - [2 1 4] ; Blank leaf, [EE4],without pagi- 
 nation. 
 
 This play, the third of Wilde's comedies in the order of production, 
 was brought out by Messrs. Lewis Walker and H. H. Morell at the 
 Theater Royal, Haymarket, London, January 3,1895, and ran until 
 April 6, the day after Wilde's arrest. Because this theater was required 
 by the lessee, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, for the production of another 
 play, Wilde's comedy was transferred to the Criterion for about two 
 weeks. 
 
 This play is the most dramatic of his comedies; the action is rapid and 
 the interest of the story is sustained to the very end. The dialogue, al- 
 ways brilliant, is nevertheless to the point and relevant, and in no way 
 impedes the development of the plot as in his other comedies. 
 
 References : Charles W.Clark Library Catalogue (19 1 Q),Vol.V,p. 107; 
 DeRiccij'T^i?^ Collector s Guide (19 21), p. 634; Mason, Bibliography 
 of Oscar Wilde ( 1 9 1 4), pp. 43 3 -43 4, No. 3 8 5 . 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 An Ideal Husband || By || The Author Of|| Lady Windermere's 
 
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 Fan 1 1 London 1 1 Leonard Smithers And Co || 5 Old Bond Street 
 W||MDCCCXCIX 
 
 Condition : Small 4°,lilac linen boards, designs in gilt by Charles Shan- 
 non on covers and back, lettered in gilt on back, uncut. Size of leaf, 8 ^ 
 by 6% inches. 
 
 First Edition, second issue. 
 
 Collation: Descriptionagrees with thefirstissuein every particularex- 
 cept that the verso of 2.4. reads "One hundred copies have been printed 
 on Large Paper, each signed by the Author, of which this is No. 29," 
 with the autographic signature of Oscar Wilde. 
 
 References: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1914)^.434, No. 
 386; Widener Catalogue (Rosenbach) (1 91 8), Vol. II, p. 279. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 An Ideal Husband || By || The Author Of|| Lady Windermere's 
 Fan || London || Leonard Smithers And Co || 5 Old Bond Street 
 W||MDCCCXCIX 
 
 Condition: Small 4 , vellum covers, gilt with lettering and designs as 
 in the first issue, uncut. Size of leaf, 8^ by 7 inches. 
 First Edition, third issue. 
 
 Collation: Same as in first and second issues of the first edition, ex- 
 cept that the verso of a4 reads "Twelve copies have been printed on 
 Japanese Vellum, each signed by the Author, of which this is No. 8," 
 with the autographic signature of Oscar Wilde. 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (i9i4),pp.434-437, 
 N0.387. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 An Ideal H usband || By || Oscar Wilde || A New Acting Version 
 Produced By || Sir George Alexander At The || St. James's The- 
 atre || Methuen & Co. Ltd. || 36 Essex Street, W. C. || London 
 
 [I9H-] 
 
 Condition: 8°, green cloth boards, uncut. Size of leaf, 6% by 4^ 
 inches. 
 
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 Acting Edition. 
 
 Collation : Half-title," An Ideal Husband," [sig. i ,] (verso blank), pp. 
 
 [i]-[2]; Title as above, [sig. i 2 ] (verso "First Published in 19 14"), pp. 
 
 [3]-[4];"Preface,"signed "Robert Ross, April 5, 19 14," [sig. i 3 ],pp.5-6; 
 
 "The Persons Of The Play," [sig. i 4 ] (verso blank), pp. 7-[8];"The 
 
 Scenes Of The Play," [sig. i 5 ] (verso blank),pp.9-[io] ;Text, [sig. u]- 
 
 [sig. 8g] (verso imprint), in eights, pp. 1 1- [128]. 
 
 This edition was prepared for the revival of the play by Sir George 
 
 Alexander, May 14,1914. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (i9i4),pp.437-442, 
 
 No. 3 8 7a. 
 
 WILDE, Oscar. 
 
 The Plays Of || Oscar Wilde || Volume 1 1| 1905 1| John W. Luce 
 & Company || Boston And London 
 
 Condition : Three volumes, 8°, lilac cloth boards, design in gilt im- 
 pressed on front-cover, lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut. Size of leaf, 7^ 
 by S% inches. 
 
 Collation: Volume /.Title as above within double ruled border, one 
 leaf (verso imprint); Half-title, "Lady Windermere's Fan," one leaf 
 (verso notice of acting rights); Dedication," To Gladys Countess De 
 Grey,"one leaf (verso blank); Cast of the first production,one leaf (ver- 
 so blank) ; Half-title," First Act," one leaf (verso blank) ; Text,pp. 1-1 9 ; 
 Blank,p. [20] ; Half-title," Second Act," p. 2 1 ; Blank,p. [2 2] ; Text,pp. 
 23-42 ; Half-title, "Third Act,"p. 43; Blank,p. [44]; Text,pp. 45-60; 
 Half-title, " Fourth Act," p. 6 1 ; Blank, p. [62] ; Text,pp. 63-78 ; Four 
 blank leaves ; Half-title," A Woman Of No Importance," one leaf (ver- 
 so notice of acting rights); Cast of original production, one leaf (verso 
 blank) ; H alf-title, " First Act," one leaf (verso blank) ; Text, pp. 1 -2 1 ; 
 Blank, p. [22] ; Half-title, "Second Act," p. 23 ; Blank, p. [24] ; Text, 
 pp. 25-49 ; Blank,p. [50] ; Half-title,"Third Act," p. 5 1 ; Blank,p.[52] ; 
 Text,pp. 53-72 ; Half-title," Fourth Act," p. 73 ; Blank, p. [74] ; Text, 
 pp. 75-94; One blank leaf. 
 Volume //.Title as above (except volume number), one leaf (verso im- 
 
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 print); Half-title,"The Importance Of Being Earnest," one leaf (verso 
 notice of acting rights); Dedication, "To Robert Baldwin Ross," one 
 leaf (verso blank); Cast of the original production,one leaf (verso blank); 
 Half-title, " First Act," one leaf (verso blank) ; Text, pp. 1-28; Half- 
 title, " Second Act," p. 29 ; Blank, p. [30] ; Text, pp.3 1-64; Half-title, 
 "Third Act," p. 65 ; Blank,p. [66] ; Text, pp. 67-84; Blank leaf; Half- 
 title,"An Ideal Husband,"one leaf (verso notice of acting rights); Ded- 
 ication,"To Frank Harris," one leaf (verso blank) ; Cast of the original 
 production,one leaf (verso blank); Half-title,"First Act," one leaf (ver- 
 so blank) ; Text, pp. 1-35; Blank, p. [3 6] ; Half-title, " Second Act," p. 
 3 7 ; Blank, p. [3 8] ; Text, pp. 39-71; Blank, p. [72] ; Half-title,"Third 
 Act,"p.73; Blank, p. [74] ;Text,pp.75-ioi;Blank,p. [102]; Half-title, 
 "Fourth Act," p. 103; Blank, p. [104]; Text, pp. 105-128. 
 Volume III. Title as above (except volume number), one leaf (verso 
 imprint); Half-title," The Duchess Of Padua,"one leaf (verso blank); 
 "Dramatis Personae," one leaf (verso blank); Half-title," First Act," 
 one leaf (verso blank); Text, pp. 1-14; Half-title," Second Act," p. [15]; 
 Blank,p.[i6];Text,pp.i7-36;Half-title,"ThirdAct,"p.[37];Blank, 
 p.[38];Text,pp.39-53;Blank,p.[5 4 ];Half-title,"FourthAct,"p.[55]; 
 Blank, p. [56] ; Text,pp. 57-75 ; Blank,p. [76] ; Half-title, "Fifth Act," 
 p.[77] ; Blank,p.[78] ; Text,pp-79-92 ; Half-title," Vera; Or,The Nihi- 
 lists,"one leaf (verso blank); " Persons I nThe Prologue," one leaf (ver- 
 so blank); "Prologue," pp. 1-8 ; Half-title," First Act," p.[9] ; Blank,p. 
 [10] ; Text,pp. 11-25; Blank,p. [26] ; Half-title," Second Act,"p. [27]; 
 Blank,p. [2 8] ;Text,pp. 29-46 ; Half-title,"Third Act,"p. [47] ; Blank, 
 p.[48];Text,pp.49-62;Half-title,"FourthAct,"p.[63];Blank,p.[64]; 
 Text, pp. 65-75 ; Blank,p. [76] ; "Corrections And Additions," pp. 77- 
 79; Blank,p.[8o]; Half-title, "Salome," one leaf (verso blank);"The 
 Persons Of The Play," one leaf (verso blank); Text, pp. 1-36. 
 On the verso of the title-pages of Volumes I and 1 1 the note reads "Set 
 Up And Printed In The United States Of America"; in Volume III, 
 this has been altered to "The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass." 
 
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 Aristophanes || At Oxford. || O.W. || By || Y.T. O. || [All Rights 
 Reserved]. || Oxford: || J.Vincent, 90, High Street. || London: || 
 Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. [1 894.] 
 Condition :8°, white stiffpaperwrappers,lettered in green,uncut. Size 
 of leaf, 7^ by 5% inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Cover-title -."Aristophanes || O.W. || at Oxford." (verso 
 blank); Half-title, "Aristophanes at Oxford,"one leaf (verso blank), 
 pp. [i]-[ii] ; Title as above, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [iii]-[iv] ; Preface, 
 one leaf, pp. [v]-vi ; "Dramatis Personae," one leaf (verso) (recto blank), 
 pp. [vii]-[viii];Text, B1-G3 (verso blank), ending with imprint, in 
 eights, pp. [i]-[86]. 
 
 This edition consisted of 750 copies. The "Y.T. O." on the title-page 
 represents the last letter in the name of each of the authors. 
 The scene of this satire is laid near Oxford. Wilde and his disciples are 
 herein held up to ridicule for the reasons announced in the preface : " If 
 questioned as to the motive of this production, we can only reply that 
 as far as we have any it is an honest dislike for < Dorian Gray,' < Salome,' 
 the 'Yellow Book,' and the whole of the lack-a-daisical, opium-cigarette 
 literature of the day. Our attack, however,is one on principles and not 
 
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 on persons. We confess straightway that our Oscar Wilde is mainly a 
 creation of our own fancy." 
 
 Wilde is made the leading character in this satirical play. 
 Reference: Ma.son,BibliographyofOscarWilde(i 9 i4),p.578,No. 685. 
 
 [AMHERST, Margaret Susan Tyssen, Editor.] 
 In a Good Cause. || A Collection Of|| Stories, Poems, and Illus- 
 trations. || [Two quotations, one of two and one of four lines, by 
 E.B.Browning.] || London: || Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co.|| 
 Paternoster Buildings, E.C.|| 1885. 
 
 Condition: Square 8°, full vellum boards, with design on front-cover 
 by S. M.T. Amherst in black with lettering in red, red edges. Size of 
 leaf, 8 by d]/ 2 inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Title as above within a single ruled border, [ai] (verso 
 blank),pp.[i]-[ii] ; Dedication to thePrincess of Wales,[a2] (verso blank), 
 pp. [iii]-[iv] ; " Preface," signed "Margaret S. Tyssen Amherst, June, 
 1885," [a3] (verso blank), pp. [v]-[vi]; "Contents," [a4],pp. [vii]-viii; 
 " List Of Illustrations," b 1 (verso blank),pp.[ix]-[x]; List of patrons of 
 the North-Eastern Hospital,[b2],pp.[xi]-[xii]; Subscription form slip, 
 one leaf inserted; Text, B1-G1, pp. [i]-82;"LeJardin DesTuileries," 
 signed "Oscar Wilde," [G2] (verso blank),pp.[83]-[84] ; Text (contin- 
 ued),[G3]-[U5] (verso copyright notice),endingwith imprint, in eights, 
 pp. [85H298]; Miscellaneous advertisements, [U6]-[X8]. 
 The poem is signed with a facsimile of the author's signature, and the 
 illustration at the foot of the page is by L[aura] T[roubridge], repre- 
 senting children playing on the branch of a tree. 
 References: Mason, Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1907), 
 p. 1 22, No. 8, i; Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (19 14), pp. 76-77, 
 No. 62. 
 
 BIRNBAUM, Martin. 
 Oscar Wilde || Fragments And Memories || By || Martin Birn- 
 baum 1 1 [Fleuron.] 1 1 London 1 1 Elkin Mathews,Cork Street || 1 920 
 
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 Condition : Small 4 , olive buckram boards, gilt, gilt top, uncut. Size 
 of leaf, %y 2 by 5 % inches. 
 
 Limited Edition. 
 
 CoLLATioN:Half-title,"OscarWildeFragmentsAndMemories,"[Ai] 
 (verso " Of this large paper edition fifty copies only have been printed, 
 of which this is N0.3 2"),pp.[i]-[ 2 ] ; Title as above,[A2] (verso blank), 
 pp.[ 3 ]-[ 4 ] ; Second half-title,[A3](verso blank),pp.[5]-[6];Text,[A 4 ]- 
 
 [E2], ending with imprint, in fours,pp-7-[36]. 
 
 Facing the title-page as frontispiece is a portrait of Oscar Wilde from 
 
 an etching from life by James Edward Kelly. 
 
 This volume is a gossipy account of OscarWilde's firstvisit to America. 
 
 BIRNBAUM, Martin. 
 Oscar Wilde || Fragments And Memories || By || Martin Birn- 
 baum| I [Fleuron.] 1 1 London| | Elkin Mathews,Cork Street 1 1 1 9 2 o 
 Condition : Small 4 , light brown boards, with white paper label print- 
 ed in black, linen back, uncut. Size of leaf, j}4 by 5 inches. 
 Collation: Description is identical with preceding copy except that 
 the verso of [Ai] is blank. 
 
 BLEI, Franz. See LA JEUNESSE, Ernest, GIDE, Andre, 
 and BLEI, Franz. 
 
 [BLOXAMJohn Francis.] 
 The Priest 1 1 And 1 1 The Acolyte ||Honi soit qui mal y pense.|| 
 Privately Printed for Presentation only. [1894.] 
 Condition : 8°,original brown printed wrappers,lettered in black,un- 
 cut. Size of leaf, 8^ by 6 % inches. 
 Second Edition. 
 
 Collation : Cover-title as above, one leaf (verso blank) ; Two blank 
 leaves ; Title as above, [A 1 ] (verso blank), pp. [1 ]-[ 2 ] 5 Text > [A2]-[C6], 
 in eights, pp. [3]-44 ; Two blank leaves. 
 John Francis Bloxam of Exeter College,Oxford, was the author of this 
 
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 story which first appeared in "The Chameleon/' Vol. I, No. i , Decem- 
 ber, 1 894. The story has been frequently attributed to Oscar Wilde. 
 References : Hoe Catalogue (1 905),Vol. Ill, p. 204; Ma.son,Bibliogra- 
 -phy of Oscar Wilde (1914)^.568, No. 6$$. 
 
 BREMONT,Anna Elizabeth, Comtesse De. 
 Oscar Wilde 1 1 And 1 1 His Mother||A Memoir || By || Anna, Com- 
 tesse De Bremont||London: || Everett & Co., Ltd., || 42, Essex 
 Street, Strand, W. C. 1 1 1 9 1 1 . 
 
 Condition: 8°, green cloth, design and lettering stamped in gilt, gilt 
 top. Size ofleaf, 6^ by \]/ 2 inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title,"OscarWilde,"[Ai](verso list of books by the 
 same author),pp.[i]-[2];Title as above, [A2] (verso blank),pp.[3]-[4]; 
 Dedication to Lady Wilde, [A3] (verso "Sonnet"), pp. [s]-[6];" Con- 
 tents," [A 4 ]-[A6], pp. [7]-i 2 ; Text," Book I," [A7J-F 1 (verso blank), 
 pp. i3-[82] ; Text, " Book II," [F2]-[K8](verso blank), pp. 83-[i 60] ; 
 Text, "Book III," [Li]-[N4] (verso blank), ending with imprint, in 
 eights, pp. i6i-[20o]. 
 
 The frontispiece is a portrait from a drawing by Frank Miles (18 81). 
 Reference: Mason,Bibliography ofOscarWilde (1 9 i4),p.565,No. 645. 
 
 COWLEY-BROWN, John Stapleton, Editor. See "The 
 Goose-Quill." 
 
 CROSLAND, Thomas William Hodgson. 
 The 1 1 First 1 1 Stone 1 1 By 1 1 T. W. H . Crosland 1 1 On Reading 1 1 The 
 Unpublished Parts || Of 'De Profundis' || London || Published 
 by the Author || Fourteen Conduit Street || 1 9 1 2 
 Condition: 8°, gray-blue boards, lettered in gilt, uncut. Size ofleaf, 
 8 by 5^ inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title,"The First Stone," [Ai ] (verso quotations from 
 "The Harlot's House" and from "Modern Painters"), pp. [i]-[>]; 
 
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 Title as above, [A2] (verso blank), pp. [3] -[4] ; " Foreword," [ A3HA4] 
 (verso blank), pp. 5-[8] ; Text, [A5HB7], in eights, pp. 9-30 ; Imprint, 
 [B8] (verso blank), one leaf without pagination. 
 Lord Alfred Douglas in his "Oscar Wilde And Myself "(1 914), de- 
 votes an entire chapter in explaining how this volume came to be pub- 
 lished. He denies any responsibility for its production either through 
 any advice or suggestion to the author from himself. Subsequently an 
 anonymous pamphletwas published called a TheWritingontheFloor" 
 in which Crosland and Douglas are attacked for having published a The 
 First Stone." Crosland's work is a vile,vicious,and unwarranted criti- 
 cism of Wilde. 
 Reference: Mzson,Bibliography of 'Oscar -Wilde (1914)^.456. 
 
 CROSS, Enrique, Editor. See "The Soil. A Magazine of Art." 
 
 CRUSO, Henry Alford Antony. See AMERY, Leopold 
 Charles Maurice Stennett,HIRST,FrancisWrigley, 
 and CRUSO, Henry Alford Antony. 
 
 DOUGLAS, Alfred, Lord. 
 Oscar Wilde 1 1 And Myself || By || Lord Alfred Douglas || With 
 Portrait Of The Author || And Thirteen Other Portraits And 
 Illustrations || Also Fac-simile Letters || [Publishers' device.] || 
 NewYork||Duflield & Company || 1914 
 
 Condition: 8°, green cloth, lettered in gilt, uncut. Size of leaf, 8^ by 
 $j4 inches. 
 
 First American Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, "Oscar Wilde And Myself," one leaf (verso 
 blank), pp. [i]-[ii] ; Title as above, one leaf (verso copyright notice),pp. 
 [iii] - [iv_ [;" Preface," two leaves (verso of last leaf blank), pp. v- [viii] ; 
 Dedication, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [ix]-[x]; "Contents," one leaf, 
 pp.xi-xii; cc List of Illustrations," one leaf (verso blank), pp. [xiii]-xiv; 
 Second half-title, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [i]-[a]; " Introductory," 
 pp.3-9;Blank,p.[io];Text,pp. 1 1-298; "Index,"pp.299-3o6.There 
 are no signature marks. 
 
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 There are fourteen illustrations, including frontispiece, as called for by 
 the list of illustrations, and three facsimile letters. 
 This is a badly written book by Lord Alfred Douglas in defense of him- 
 self and in attempted refutation of the charge made by Ransome and 
 others of his having been the cause of Wilde's downfall. It is also a re- 
 ply to those portions of the "suppressed" part of "De Profundis" that 
 were read at the trial of Douglas against Ransome. 
 Henley once wrote an unpleasant tribute to his dead friend, Robert 
 Louis Stevenson,but therein he merely sought to detract from Steven- 
 son's talent as a writer ; the spirit of hate was conspicuous by its absence. 
 But in this book Douglas shows both hatred and malice combined with 
 a determination to malign and to belittle Wilde as a writer and a poet. 
 It is a shameful slur on the memory of a dead man with whom Doug- 
 las had long been on terms of the greatest intimacy and whom he once 
 worshipped almost as a demi-god. 
 
 Wilde's standing in the world of letters will not be hurt thereby and 
 it is quite certain that by the publication of this book Douglas has added 
 not a whit to his own reputation. 
 
 Reference: yi^son^BibliographyofOscarU^ilde (19 1 4),p«5 8 2,N 0.693. 
 
 GIDE, Andre. 
 Oscar Wilde 1 1 A Study || From The French Of || Andre Gide|| 
 With Introduction, Notes And Bibliography || By || Stuart Ma- 
 son || Oxford || The Holywell Press || MCMV 
 
 Condition : 8°, gray boards, with white labels lettered in red and black 
 on front-cover and back,uncut. Size of leaf, 7^ by 5^ inches. 
 First Edition in English. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, " Oscar Wilde," one leaf (verso "This Edition 
 consists of 500 copies. Fifty copies have been printed on hand-made 
 paper."),pp.[i]-[ii] ;Title as above,in red and black, one leaf (verso "[All 
 Rights Reserved]."), pp. [iii]-[iv] ; Dedication to Donald Bruce Wal- 
 lace, one leaf (verso note on poem by Wilde), pp. [v]-[vi] ; Poem by 
 Wilde, one leaf (verso note on Mr. Gide's "Study of Oscar Wilde"), 
 pp. [vii]-[viii];"List Of Illustrations," one leaf (verso "Errata"), pp. 
 
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 [ix]-[x]; "Contents," one leaf (verso blank), pp. [xi]-[xii] ; " Introduc- 
 tory,"signed"Stuart Mason," B i -[B5],pp.[i]-io;Inscription on Oscar 
 Wilde's tombstone atBagneux,[B6](recto),p.[i i];" Letters from M. 
 Andre Gide," [B6] (verso)-[B7] (verso blank), pp. [ 1 2]-[i 4] ; Text, [B 8]- 
 [G4],pp.[i 5]-8 8; Sonnet to Oscar Wilde by Augustus M.Moore,[G5] 
 (verso blank), pp.[89]-[9o];Half-title,"ListOfPublishedWritingsOf 
 Oscar Wilde," [G6] (verso blank),pp. [9 1 H92] ; Text, [Gy]-[H3], pp. 
 [93]-i02;Note,[H4],pp.[i03]-i04;"Books containing Selections from 
 the Works of Oscar Wilde," [H5](versoblank),pp.[io5]-[io6]; Bibli- 
 ographical notes on English editions, [H6]-[H 7], pp. [ioy]-i 10; Ad- 
 vertisements, [H 8] (verso imprint),in eights, one leaf without pagina- 
 tion. 
 
 At the beginning of each chapteris a leaf on the recto of which is a stanza 
 of four lines, the verso being blank. 
 
 In the list of contents the " Poem by Oscar Wilde" is indexed as being 
 on page xi instead of vii. 
 
 There are five illustrations, including frontispiece, as called for in the 
 list. 
 
 Mr. Gide's" Study of Oscar Wilde" first appeared in "L'Ermitage" 
 (Paris),a monthly literary review,June, 1 902,pages40 1 -429.This work 
 is a portrait in miniature rather than an interpretative study of Wilde's 
 character. 
 
 References: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1914)^.567, No. 
 652; Widener Catalogue (Rosenbach)(i9i8),Vol. 1 1, p. 279. 
 
 GIDE, Andre. See LA JEUNESSE, Ernest, GIDE, Andre, 
 and BLEI, Franz. 
 
 The || Goose-Quill || [Quotation of one line.] || Edited By ||John 
 Stapleton Cowley-Brown. || Vol. 1 . No. 1 . || New Series. || No- 
 vember 1,1901. [etc.] 
 
 Condition: 8°, white pictorial wrappers, stitched, uncut. Size of leaf, 
 %}i by 5^ inches. 
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 Collation: Pictorial cover-title, " In this Number "The Ballad of 
 Reading Gaol," by Oscar Wilde. || The Goose-Quill. || [Pictorial de- 
 sign.] || ioc a Copy.$ i.ooYearly.|| Published on the First of Each 
 
 Month atthe Auditorium Building,Chicago,"one leaf(verso advertise- 
 ment),pp.[i]-2;Text,"The Ballad Of Reading Gaol," pp. 3-14; Mis- 
 cellany, pp. 1 5-30 ; Advertisements, back-cover (recto and verso), pp. 
 3 l ~3^ 
 There are three illustrations in the text. 
 
 HAGEMANN, Carl. 
 Carl Hagemann 1 1 Wilde-Brevier 1 1 [Publisher's device.] || J.C.C. 
 Bruns' Verlag|| Herzogl. Sach.und Furstl. Sch.-Lipp. Hof-Ver- 
 lagsbuchhandlung || Minden i. Westf. 
 
 Condition: 8°,tan linen boards,lettered in gilt,gilt top. Size of leaf, 6 j{ 
 by 4% inches. 
 
 CoLLATioN:Half-title,"CarlHagemannWilde-Brevier,"oneleaf(ver- 
 so advertisement), pp. [I]-[II] ; Title as above, one leaf (verso state- 
 ment of limited edition and imprint), pp. [I I I]-[IV] ;" Inhalt," one leaf 
 (verso blank), pp. [V]-[VI]; "Vorwort," three leaves, pp. [VII] -XII; 
 Half-title, " I Die Kunst," sig. 1 x (verso blank), pp. [ 1 ]-[2] ; Text, sig. 1 *- 
 [sig.3 4 ],pp. [3]-40; Half-title, "II Die Kritik,"[sig. 35] (verso blank), 
 pp. [ 4 i]-[ 4 2] ; Text, [sig. 3 6 ]-[sig. 43 ], PP- [43H45 Half-title," III Der 
 Mensch,"[sig.4 4 ](versoblank),pp.[55]-[56];Text,[sig. 45 ]-[sig.5 s ],pp. 
 [57]-74 ; Half-title, " IV Die Gesellschaft," [sig. 56] (verso blank), pp. 
 [75]-[76];Text J [sig.5 7 ]-sig.6*,pp.[77]-8 4 ;Half-title,"VDieMoral," 
 [sig. 63] (verso blank), pp. [8 5]-[8 6] ; Text, [sig. 6 4 ]-sig. 7,, pp. [8 y]-^; 
 Half-title," VI DieGeschlechter,"sig. 7*(verso blank),pp. [99]-[ioo] ; 
 Text, [sig. 7 3 ]-sig. 8 ! (verso blank), pp. [1 01] -[1 14]; Half-title, "VII 
 Das Leben und anderes," sig. 8* (verso blank), pp. [1 1 5]-[i 1 6] ; Text, 
 [sig. 8 3 ]-[sig. 8 7 ], pp. [1 1 7]-i 26 ; " Bibliographic," [sig. 8 8 ]-[sig. o 3 ], pp. 
 [i27]-i34; Advertisements of Wilde's works in German, [sig. 9 4 ],in 
 eights, pp. [i35]-[i36]. 
 
 The frontispiece is from the etching by James Edward Kelly. 
 
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 HAMILTON, Walter. 
 
 The||iEsthetic Movement || In England. || By || Walter Hamil- 
 ton, || Fellow of the Royal Geographical and Historical Socie- 
 ties; || Author of "The Poets Laureat of England," "A History 
 of National Anthems and || Patriotic Songs," "A Memoir of 
 George Cruikshank," &c. || [Quotation of three lines from Wil- 
 liam Morris.] 1 1 London : 1 1 Reeves & Turner, 196, Strand, Lon- 
 don,W. C. || MDCCCLXXXII. 
 
 Condition: 8°, green cloth boards, with design and lettering stamped 
 in gilt on front-cover, uncut. Size of leaf, 8 ji by 5^ inches. 
 
 Second Edition. 
 
 Collation : Title as above, within ornamental borders, [Ai] (verso 
 blank), pp.[i]-[ii]; "Contents," [A2](verso blank),pp. [iii]-[iv];" Intro- 
 duction," [A3]-[A 4 ], pp. [v]-viii; Text, B1-G2, pp. [1]- 84; "Mr. Oscar 
 Wilde,"[G3]-[H7],pp.[85]-no;Text(continued),[H8]-[I8](verso 
 blank), ending with imprint, in eights, pp. [1 1 i]-[i 28]. Sig. B2 is mis- 
 printed C2. 
 
 HARRIS, Frank. 
 
 Oscar Wilde 1 1 His Life And || Confessions || By || Frank Harris || 
 Volume 1 1| Printed And Published || By The Author || 3 Wash- 
 ington Square New York City || MCMXVI 
 
 Condition : Two volumes, 8°, full purple crushed levant morocco,gilt 
 back and inside borders, gilt top, uncut, by Blackwell. Size of leaf, 8^ 
 by SVa- inches. 
 Special Edition. 
 
 Collation: Volume I. Half-title, "Oscar Wilde: His Life And Con- 
 fessions," one leaf (verso blank); Title as above, in red and black, one 
 leaf (verso copyright notice) ;"Contents,"one leaf (verso blank);"List 
 Of Illustrations," one leaf (verso quotation), pp. [i]-[ii]; "Introduc- 
 tion," three leaves (verso of last leaf blank), pp. iii- [viii] ; Text, pp. 1- 
 3 20; Three blank leaves. 
 
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 Volume 1 "/.Title as above (except volume number),in red and black,one 
 leaf (verso quotation from"The Balladof Reading Gaol,"and copyright 
 notice) ; Text, pp. 3 2 1 -548 ; "Appendix," pp. 549-5 8 6 ; " M rs Wilde's 
 Epitaph," p. 587; "Sonnet," p. 588; "The Story Of'Mr. And Mrs. 
 Daventry,'" pp. 589-594; "Oscar's Last Days," pp. 595-603; Blank, 
 p. [604]; Letter to Wilde from Lord Alfred Douglas, p. [605]; Blank, 
 p. [606]; Letter from Oscar Wilde to Frank Harris,p.[6o7]; Blank,p. 
 [608]. There are no signature marks. 
 
 There are three illustrations in each volume as called for in the list of 
 illustrations. The book is printed on Japanese vellum. 
 On the fly-leaf of Volume I,inscribed in the handwriting of the author, 
 is the following: "Only six copies have been made with this hitherto 
 unpublished material. Frank Harris. June 191 8." 
 On the second fly-leaf appears these lines in the author's handwriting: 
 "I inscribe this special copy to W.A.Clark Jr., Esq. so that it may form 
 an integral part of his important 'Wilde-Collection,' Frank Harris." 
 
 Inserted inVolume II, between pages 604 and 605, is a facsimile of the 
 letter from Lord Douglas to Wilde which appears on page 605. The 
 original of this letter is in the possession of William Andrews Clark, Jr. 
 
 This work is at once the best personal picture that has been painted of 
 OscarWilde and also the most intimate account of that versatile man's 
 life. It stands as a supreme work of art and as one of the few great biog- 
 raphies we have in the English literature. It was conceived in strong 
 friendship and was born in the love that knew no bounds. The story 
 of Wilde is told with the devotion of a true friend. It extenuates noth- 
 ing that Wilde did nor does it palliate the vices of which he was guilty, 
 but it delineates the virtues and talents that were Wilde's, rather than 
 the weaknesses that were inherent in his character. Harris has silenced 
 the scurrilities of Wilde's detractors,yet on the other hand has brought 
 to sanity the too fulsome praises that had been bestowed on this er- 
 ratic man by others who have written of him and of his works. Frank 
 Harris and the late Robert Ross are the two men who stand out prom- 
 inently as Wilde's truest friends when that unfortunate man had drunk 
 to the dregs the full cup of bitter despair and degradation, and who 
 
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 alone of all his friends held out to him a helping hand and a healing 
 sympathy in his distress. 
 
 Reference: Mason } Bibliograp/iy of Oscar Wilde(i 9 i4),p.582,No. 694. 
 
 [HICHENS, Robert Smythe.] 
 The || Green Carnation || [Triangular floral design.] || [Publish- 
 er's device.] ||New York||D. Appleton And Company || 1895 
 
 Condition : 8°,green buckram boards,with design and letters stamped 
 in silver,uncut. Size of leaf, 6 % by 4^ inches. 
 First American Edition. 
 
 CoLLATiON:Title as above,in red and green, [sig. ii] (verso imprint); 
 Text, [sig. i 2 ]-[sig. i4 3 ](verso blank), in eights, pp. i-[2I2]; Publica- 
 tions of Appleton and Co., [sig. i4 4 ]-[sig. 148]. 
 
 This volume, often attributed to Wilde, was written by Robert Hich- 
 ens,and first appeared in the "Pall Mall Gazette" for October 2,1 894, 
 beginning page3."The Green Carnation"was published anonymous- 
 ly September 15,1894,^ the"Pioneer Series" of Heinemann's nov- 
 els. The author's name (Hichens) appeared on the title-page after the 
 third edition. 
 
 Mr. James Huneker,in his " Unicorns " ( 191 7), page 2 1 5, says : " Posi- 
 tively the best book Wilde ever inspired was The Green Carnation, 
 by Robert Hichens, which book gossip avers set the ball rolling that 
 fetched up behind prison bars." 
 
 This book is a satire upon Wilde's novel, "The Picture of Dorian 
 Gray." It is an attempt to picture the weaknesses of the period during 
 whichWilde wrote.In the characters of Esme Amarinth and LordReg- 
 gie,two well-known personalities are parodied: Oscar Wilde being one, 
 and the other being a well-known member of the peerage, and a dilet- 
 tante in literature. 
 
 Reference : Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde ( 1 9 1 4), pp. 167-168, 
 No. 234. 
 
 HINKSON, Henry A., Editor. 
 Dublin Verses 1 1 by 1 1 Members 1 1 of 1 1 Trinity College 1 1 Edited By 1 1 
 
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 H . A. Hinkson 1 1 Sometime Scholar of Trinity College, D ublin 1 1 
 [Two lines in Greek from Pindar.] || London Elkin Mathews || 
 Dublin Hodges, Figgis & Co., Limited || MDCCCXCV 
 
 Condition: Small 4 , green linen boards, with design and lettering 
 stamped in gilt on front-cover,design stamped on back-cover,gilt back, 
 uncut. Size of leaf, 7^ by 6y£ inches. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, "Dublin Verses by Members of Trinity Col- 
 lege," one leaf (verso blank), pp. [i]-[ii] ; Title as above, one leaf (verso 
 blank), pp. [iii]-[iv]; Dedication, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [v]-[vi]; 
 "Preface," one leaf, pp. [vii]-viii;" Contributors," [A 1] (verso blank), 
 pp. [ix]-[x] ; " Contents," [A2]-[A3] (verso blank), pp. [xi]-[xiv] ; Half- 
 title, "Dublin Verses," [A4] (verso blank), pp. [xv]-[xvi]; Text, Bi- 
 [T2],infours,pp.[i]-i40;"Notes,"[T3](versoblank),pp.[i4i]-[i42]; 
 Printer's device,[T4](versoblank),pp.[i43]-[i44];"List of Books in 
 Belles Lettres, 1 895," ten leaves, pp. [i]-20. 
 
 The poems by Wilde which appear in this anthology are : " Requies- 
 cat," page 12;" The True Knowledge," page 48 ; " Salve SaturniaTel- 
 lus,"page 81; "Theocritus," page 105; and "The Dole of the King's 
 Daughter," page 117. 
 
 References: M.a.son 3 Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde (1907), 
 p.i2o,No.6; Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1914)^.297. 
 
 HIRST,Francis Wrigley. See AMERY, Leopold Charles 
 Maurice Stennett,HIRST,FrancisWrigley,and CRU- 
 SO, Henry Alford Antony. 
 
 INGLEBY, Leonard Cresswell. 
 Oscar Wilde || By || Leonard Cresswell Ingleby || New York || 
 D.Appleton And Company || 1908 
 
 Condition: 8°, green cloth boards, with design stamped with darker 
 green on cover and in gilt on back, gilt top,uncut. Size of leaf, 8 ^ by 
 5^ inches. 
 
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 CoLLATiON:Preliminaryblankleaf,pp.[i]-[ii];Half-title,"Oscar Wilde," 
 one leaf (verso blank),pp.[iii]-[iv];Title as above,one leaf (verso blank), 
 pp. [v]-[vi] ; " Contents," one leaf,pp.vii-viii ; Half-title," Part I Oscar 
 Wilde:TheMan,"Ai(versoblank),pp.[i]-[2];Text,[A2]-[F6](verso 
 blank),pp.3-[92] ; Half-title," Part 1 1 The Modern Playwright," [F7] 
 (verso blank),pp.[93H94];Text,[F8]-[K7](versoblank),pp.95-[is8]; 
 Half-title,"PartIIIThe Romantic Dramas," [K8](verso blank),pp. 
 [i5 9 ]-[i6o];Text,Li-[08],pp.i6i-22 4 ;Half-title,«PartIVThe 
 Writer Of Fairy Stories," Pi(versoblank),pp.[225]-[226];Text,[P2]- 
 Qi , pp. 227-242 ; Half-title, " Part V The Poet," [Q2] (verso blank), 
 pp.[2 4 3]-[244]; Text,[Q 3 ]-[T5],pp. 245-298; Half-title, "Part VI 
 The Fiction Writer," [T6] (verso blank), pp. [299H300]; Text, [T7]- 
 [X 4 ](versoblank),pp.30i-[328];Half-title,"PartVII The Philosophy 
 OfBeauty,"[X5](versoblank),pp.[329]-[33o];Text,[X6]-[Z2](verso 
 blank), pp.33i-[356];Half-title,"Part VIII <De Profundis,'" [Z3] 
 (verso blank), pp.[357]-[358];Text,[Z 4 ]-[Z8] and 2Ai-[2B 5 ](verso 
 blank),pp.359-[394];Half-title,"Index,"[2B6](versoblank),pp.[395]- 
 [396]; Text,[2B7]-[2B8], ending with imprint, in eights,pp. 397-400. 
 The frontispiece is a portrait of Oscar Wilde from a crayon drawing 
 by S.Wray. 
 
 This is one of the very best critical studies of Oscar Wilde's works that 
 has yet been written. It is of but little biographical interest.There are 
 a few errors in the text regarding facts which should have been known 
 by the author. 
 
 KENILWORTH, Walter Winston. 
 A Study Of 1 1 Oscar Wilde || By 1 1 Walter Winston Kenilworth|| 
 Author Of "Psychic Control Through Self- Knowledge," 
 "Thought On Things Psychic," "The Life || Of The Soul," 
 Etc., Etc. || [Printer's ornament.] || R. F. Fenno & Company|| 
 18 East 17TH Street New York [19 12.] 
 
 Condition: 8°,black cloth boards,gilt. Size of leaf, 7^ by 4% inches. 
 First Edition. 
 Collation: Half-title, c< A Study Of OscarWilde," p.[3]; Blank leaf, 
 
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 p. [4] ; Title as above,p.[5] ; Copyright notice,p.[6] ;"Contents,"p.[7]; 
 Blank,p.[8]; cc Foreword,"pp.9-i2;Half-title,"Impressions,"p.[i3]; 
 Blank,p.[i4];Text,pp.i5-26;Half-title, cc Reflections,"p.[27];Blank, 
 p.[2 8];Text,pp.29-39;Blank,p.[4o];Half-title,"Revelations,"p.[4i]; 
 Blank,p.[42] ; Text,pp.43~55 ; Blank,p. [56] ; Half-title,"Intentions," 
 p. [57] ;Blank,p. [5 8] ;Text,pp. 59-70; Half-title," Aspirations," p.[7i]; 
 Blank, p. [72]; Text, pp. 73-85; Blank, p. [86]; Half-title, "Realiza- 
 tions," p. [87]; Blank,p. [88]; Text, pp. 89-100; Half-title, "Illumi- 
 nations," p. [101] ; Blank, p. [102] ; Text, pp. 103-1 17; Blank, p. [1 1 8]; 
 Half-title,"Conclusions,"p.[i 19] ; Blank,p.[i 20] ; Text,pp. 1 2 1-133 ; 
 Blank,p.[i34]; Half-title," Afterword,"p.[i35];Blank,p.[i36];Text, 
 pp. 137-139; Blank,p.[i4o]; Advertisements and press notices, three 
 leaves (verso of last leaf blank), without pagination. 
 
 Mason, in his bibliography, says that in all copies of the above work 
 examined a leaf between the title-page and the list of contents has been 
 cut out, which would account for the hiatus appearing between pages 
 4 and 7. This does not appear to be the case in the present copy. 
 
 This essay is a psychological analysis of Wilde's character,and was writ- 
 ten in 1 9 1 2, twelve years after that unfortunate man's death. It is inter- 
 esting as showing that with the flight of years the pendulum of public 
 opinion is slowly swinging back to a normal position where the man 
 and his works may be judged without prejudice and his proper place 
 among English writers may ultimately be fixed. 
 
 Reference \M.a.son :i Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1 9 14)^.567^0.65 1. 
 
 LA JEUNESSE, Ernest, GIDE, Andre, and BLEI, Franz. 
 POLLARD, P erciv AL,Trans/ator. 
 
 Recollections 1 1 Of 1 1 Oscar Wilde 1 1 By 1 1 Ernest La Jeunesse 1 1 An- 
 dre Gide And Franz Blei|| Translation And Introduction || By || 
 Percival Pollard|| 1906H John W.Luce And Company || Boston 
 And London 
 
 Condition: Small 8°, lilac linen boards, design and lettering stamped 
 in gilt, gilt back,uncut. Size of leaf, 6yi by 4^ inches. 
 
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 Reprint. 
 
 CoLLATiON:Half-title,"Recollections Of OscarWilde," one leaf (ver- 
 so blank), pp. [i]-[2]; Title as above, one leaf (verso copyright notice 
 and imprint),pp.[3]-[4] ; "Contents,"one leaf (verso blank),pp.[5]-[6]; 
 Half-title," Introduction By Percival Pollard," one leaf (verso blank), 
 pp. [7]-[8];Text, eight leaves (verso of lastleaf blank),pp.a-[24]; Half- 
 title," Recollections Of OscarWilde By Andre Gide," one leaf (verso 
 blank),pp.[2 5]-[26];Text,pp.27-66; Half-title," Recollections Of Oscar 
 Wilde By Ernest La Jeunesse," one leaf (verso blank), pp. [67H68]; 
 Text,pp.69-87;Blank,p.[88];Half-title,"RecollectionsOf OscarWilde 
 By Franz Blei," one leaf (verso blank), pp. [8a]-[ao] ; Text,pp. 91-99; 
 Blank,p. [100] ; Advertisements of the works of Oscar Wilde,one leaf. 
 There are no signature marks. 
 
 This is a reprint of the "Literary Collector Press" edition,the mistakes 
 remaining uncorrected. 
 REFERENCE:Mason,jB/M^r^/zyo/Oj^r/F//^(i9i4),p.57i,No.665. 
 
 LOUNSBERY, G. Constant. 
 The Picture Of || Dorian Gray|| A Play In Three Acts And || 
 Prologue : Dramatized By 1 1 G. Constant Lounsbery 1 1 From The 
 Romance Of 1 1 OscarWilde 1 1 London: Simpkin Marshall 1 1 Ham- 
 ilton Kent & Co Ltd || 1 9 1 3 
 
 Condition: 8°, white canvas boards, lettering and medallion designs 
 by Charles Ricketts, stamped in gilt on front-cover, gilt back, gilt top, 
 uncut. Size of leaf, 8 ^ by 5 ^ inches. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title,"The Picture Of Dorian Gray," [Ai] (verso 
 blank), pp. [i]-[2] ; Title as above, [A2] (verso copyright notice and im- 
 print),pp. [3H4] ; Cast of first production, [A3] (verso blank), pp. [5]- 
 [6] ; List of characters and scenes, [A4] (verso blank),pp. [7]-[8] ; Half- 
 title," Act I," [As] (verso blank),pp.[9]-[ 10]; Text,[A6]-[B6],pp.i 1-28; 
 Half-title," ActII,"[B7](verso blank), pp.[29]-[3o];Text,[B8]-[D3], 
 pp.3 1-54; Half-title," Act III," [D 4 ] (verso blank),pp.[55]-[56] ;Text, 
 
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 [D5HE3] (verso blank),pp.57-[7o]; Half-title, "Act IV," [E4] (verso 
 blank),pp.[7i]-[72];Text,[E5]-[F8](versoblank),ineights,pp.73-[96]. 
 Reference: Ni?LSon y BibliographyofOscarIVilde(i 9 1 4),p-3 52, N0.340. 
 
 MASON, Stuart. [Pseudonym of MILLARD,Christopher 
 
 SCLATER.] 
 
 Bibliography || Of Oscar Wilde || By || Stuart Mason || With A 
 Note By 1 1 Robert Ross 1 1 Illustrated 1 1 London 1 1 T.Werner Laurie 
 Ltd. || [1914.] 
 
 Condition: 8°, red cloth boards, with designs by Charles Ricketts, let- 
 tering on front-cover,and publisher's monogram on back-cover stamped 
 in black. Size of leaf, 8^ by 51^ inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation : Half-title," Bibliography Of OscarWilde," with publish- 
 er's device at foot of page, [ai] (verso blank), pp. [i]-[ii]; Title as above, 
 [a2](versoblank),pp.[iii]-[iv];Introductorynote,signed"RobertRoss," 
 [a3],pp.v-vi; "Preface," [a4]-[a5] (verso blank),pp.vii-[x]; "Contents," 
 [a6]-[b8],pp.xi-xxxii; Half-title,"Part I Periodical Publications," Ai, 
 pp.i-[2];Text,[A2]-[P7](versoblank),pp.3-[238];Half-title,"PartII 
 Works Issued In Book Form," [P8](verso blank), pp. [239]-[24o]; 
 Text,Qi-[Z8] and 2Ai-2Ni,pp.24i-562; Half-title,"Part III Biog- 
 raphies, Studies, Etc.," [2N2] (verso blank), pp. [563]-[564] ; Text, 
 [2N3]-[203], pp. 565-582; "Appendix," [204]-[205] (verso blank), 
 pp.583-[586];"Ana,"[206]-[207] (verso blank), pp.587-[59o];"In- 
 dex Of Names," [208]-[2P7J (verso blank), ending with imprint, in 
 eights, pp. 59i-[6o6] ; Advertisements, [2P8] (verso blank), one leaf 
 without pagination. 
 
 The frontispiece is a caricature of OscarWilde at work, after a draw- 
 ing by Aubrey Beardsley, reproduced on Japanese vellum. 
 Facing page 241 is a caricature of Wilde by Max Beerbohm, repro- 
 duced on Japanese vellum. 
 
 Throughout the text are numerous reproductions of title-pages of 
 Wilde's works, of covers of magazines in which Wilde's writings ap- 
 peared, facsimiles of manuscripts, etc. 
 
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 MASON, Stuart. [MILLARD, Christopher Sclater.] 
 Bibliography || Of Oscar Wilde || By || Stuart Mason || With A 
 Note By || Robert Ross || Volume One || Illustrated || London || 
 T.Werner Laurie Ltd. || 8 Essex Street || 1 9 1 4 
 Condition: Two volumes, 8°, cream canvas boards with designs by 
 Charles Ricketts and lettering stamped in gilt on front-cover, gilt top, 
 uncut. Size of leaf, 8^ by 6 inches. 
 Edition de Luxe. 
 
 Collation : Volume I. "This Edition de Luxe (in two Volumes) con- 
 sistsofiooCopies,numberedandsigned.ThisisNo.84,"with the auto- 
 graphic signature of Stuart Mason, one leaf (verso blank) ; Half-title, 
 " Bibliography Of Oscar Wilde Volume One," with publisher's device 
 at foot of page, [ai] (verso blank), pp. [i]-[ii]; Title as above, [a2] (verso 
 blank),pp.[iii]-[iv];"IntroductoryNote,"signed by Robert Ross,[a3], 
 pp.v-vi;"Preface,"[a 4 ]-[a5](versoblank),pp.vii-[x];"Contents,"[a6]- 
 [b8],pp.xi-xxxii;"ListOfPlates,"ci-[c4](versoblank),pp.xxxiii-[xl]; 
 Half-title,"Part I Periodical Publications," Ai (verso blank),pp. 1 -[2]; 
 Text, [A2HP7] (verso blank), pp. $-[23 8] ; Blank leaf, [P8], pp. [23 9]- 
 [240]. 
 
 Volume II. Half-title," Bibliography Of Oscar Wilde Volume Two," 
 with publisher's device at foot of page, one leaf (verso blank); Title as 
 above (except volume number), one leaf(versoblank);Text,"PartII 
 Works Issued In Book Form," Qi-[Z8] and 2Ai-2Ni,pp.2 4 i-562; 
 Half-title, " Part III Biographies, Studies, Etc.," [2N2] (verso blank), 
 pp.[563]-[564];Text,[2N3]-[203],pp.565-s82;«Appendix,"[20 4 ]- 
 [205](verso blank),pp.583-[586];"Ana,"[206]-[207](verso blank), 
 pp.587-[59o];"IndexOfNames,"[208]-[2P7](versoblank),ending 
 with imprint, in eights, pp. 59 i-[6o6]; Advertisements, [2P8](verso 
 blank), one leaf without pagination. 
 
 The illustrations in this edition are identical with those of the popu- 
 lar issue, with the exception that all of the full-page plates have been 
 issued on Japanese vellum paper.These two volumes are uniform with 
 and appear to form a supplement to the first edition of "Wilde's Col- 
 lected Works," published by Methuen and Co., in 1 908. 
 
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 MASON, Stuart. 
 A Bibliography || of the || Poems of Oscar Wilde || Giving Par- 
 ticulars as to the Original Publication of each || Poem, with 
 Variations of Readings and a Complete || List of all Editions, 
 Reprints,Translations,&c.||By|| Stuart Mason || With Portraits, 
 Illustrations,FacsimilesofTitle-pages,||Manuscripts,&c.||Lon- 
 don || E.Grant Richards || 7 Carlton Street, S.W.|| 1907 
 
 Condition : 8°, white buckram boards, lettered in gilt, uncut. Size of 
 leaf, 7^ by 5^ inches. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation :Two preliminary blank leaves, [A 1 ]-[A2];Half-title,"Bib- 
 liography Of The Poems Of Oscar Wilde," [A3] (verso note on the 
 editions) ; Title as above,[A4] (verso " [All Rights Reserved.] ") ; Dedi- 
 cation, [A5] (verso blank); "Contents," [A6] (verso blank); "List Of 
 Illustrations," [A7] (verso blank); Quotation from Ernest Newman, 
 [A8](versoblank);Text,Bi-[K4],infours,pp.[i]-i36;"IndexToThe 
 First Lines," [K5]-[K7](recto),pp.[i3 7] -141; "Alphabetical Index Of 
 Titles," [K7] (verso)-L2 (verso" An Undiscovered Poem"), pp. [142]- 
 [148]; Blank leaf,[L3],pp.[i49]-[i5o];Advertisements,[L4],pp.[i 51]- 
 
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 Including the frontispiece there are nine illustrations as called for in 
 the list. 
 
 This edition was limited to 475 copies on laid paper. In about two hun- 
 dred copies, between the frontispiece and title, is inserted a slip regard- 
 ing the postponement of the publication of Methuen's complete edi- 
 tion of the poems of Wilde. 
 
 The portrait facing page 16 is that of Oscar Wilde in the year that he 
 won the Newdigate.The drawingwas recently made from a photograph, 
 and the inscription is a forgery. As many as possible of this edition were 
 called in and the illustration cancelled. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (i9i4),pp. 568-569, 
 No. 656. 
 
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 MASON, Stuart. 
 Oscar Wilde || and ||The Aesthetic Movement. || By Stuart Ma- 
 son. 1 1 With Initial Letters by Alan Odle and 1 1 Illustrations from 
 Contemporary Prints. 1 1 Townley Searle,| | The Collectors' Book- 
 shop, || 43 Wellington Quay, || and 1 3 Swifts' Row, || Dublin : 
 
 Ireland, [n.d.] 
 
 Condition: 4 , buff printed wrappers,uncut, wired. Size of leaf, 1 1 by 
 %y 2 inches. 
 
 Collation: Cover-title as above (all except imprint within double 
 ruled borders)(verso"No.43,"bySearle in autograph) ;Text,six leaves, 
 with autographic signature of Stuart Mason. The versos of leaves 2,5, 
 and 6 are blank. 
 
 There are neither signature marks nor pagination. 
 The illustrations are five in number. 
 MASON, Stuart, Editor. 
 Oscar Wilde || Art and Morality || A Defence Of ||"The Picture 
 Of Dorian Gray" || Edited By||Stuart Mason||What the public 
 calls an unhealthy novel 1 1 is always a beautiful and healthy work 
 of || art. || London: || J.Jacobs, Edgware Road,W.|| 1908. 
 Condition : 8°, purple linenboardsletteredinwhite,uncut.Size of leaf, 
 
 1 X A k y 5 inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title," Art AndMorality,"one leaf (verso"This edi- 
 tion consists of 475 copies. 25 copies have been printed on handmade 
 paper"), pp.[i]-[2] ; Title as above, one leaf (verso note by Stuart Ma- 
 son), pp. [3 ]-[4] ; " Contents," one leaf, pp. [s]-[6] ; Text, pp. [7] -149 i 
 "Bibliography," pp. [150] -1 60 ; Advertisements, two leaves(the verso 
 of last being blank). 
 
 The following pages are blank: 8,23,35,41,47, 53, 65, and 117. 
 There is, as frontispiece, a picture of Wilde reproduced from "The 
 Pall Mall Magazine"; and facing page 97 is a caricature reproduced 
 from "Punch." 
 Reference: Mason,BibIiograp/iy of Oscar Wilde (i 9 14)^.569^0.659. 
 
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 MASON, Stuart. 
 The||OscarWildeCalendar||AQuotationFromTheWorksOf|| 
 Oscar Wilde 1 1 For Every Day In The Year 1 1 With Some Unre- 
 corded Sayings || Selected By Stuart Mason || [Publisher's de- 
 vice.] 1 1 London 1 1 Frank Palmer 1 1 1 2- 1 4 Red Lion Court [ 1 9 1 o.] 
 Condition: Small 8°, simili-vellum wrappers, lettered in dark green 
 and red within a decorative border of sunflower design in dark green, 
 uncut. Size of leaf, 6^ by 4^ inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Half-title, "The Oscar Wilde Calendar," [sig. ii] (verso 
 quotation from Oscar Wilde), pp. [i]-[2J; Title as above, in green and 
 red, [sig. 1 2 ] (verso "First published 19 10"), pp. [3H4]; Biographical 
 1 note, [sig. 1 3 ] (verso reproduction of pencil drawing of Wilde by Albert 
 C. Sterner),pp.[5]-[6];Text,in green and red,[sig. i 4 ]-[sig. 6 5 ],in eights, 
 pp.7-90; Acknowledgments,[sig. 66](verso imprint),pp. [9 1]-[92]; Ad- 
 vertisements, printed in green,[sig. 6 7 ]-[sig. 6g],pp.[93]-[96]. 
 The running head-lines are printed in red throughout. 
 The frontispiece is a reproduction of a portrait of Oscar Wilde from a 
 painting by Harper Pennington, in the possession of Robert Ross, Es- 
 quire. 
 
 The pencil drawing, opposite page 7,1s reproduced from " La Plume," 
 Paris, December 15, 1900, page 745. 
 
 Facing page 5 6 is a reproduction of the last photograph of OscarWilde, 
 taken in Rome, 1 900. 
 
 Reference : Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde ( 1 9 1 4),pp. 5 5 8-559, 
 No. 637. 
 
 MILLARD, Christopher Sclater. See MASON, Stuart. 
 
 OscarWilde : 1 1 Three 1 1 Times Tried 1 1 [Quotation of five lines from 
 "De Profundis."] || London || The Ferrestone Press, Ltd. || Red 
 Lion Court [191 2.] 
 
 Condition : 8°, blue cloth boards, gilt top, uncut. Size of leaf, 8 % by 
 53^ inches. 
 
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 First Edition. 
 
 CoLLATiON:Half-title,"Famous Old Bailey Trials Of The XIX Cen- 
 tury Three Times Tried," [A i] (verso "All rights Reserved."), pp. [i]- 
 [ii] ; Title as above, [A2] (verso publisher's bibliographical note), pp. 
 [iii]-iv;"Contents,"[A3],pp.v-vi; "Preface," [A4]-[A5](verso blank), 
 pp. [vii]-[x]; Half-title," I. —The First Time," [A6] (verso blank), pp. 
 xi-[xii] ; Text, Bi-[K5] (verso blank), pp. i-[i38] ; Half-title," II.- 
 The Second Time," [K6] (verso blank), pp. [139H140] ; Text, [K7]- 
 [Y3](verso blank),pp. 1 4 1 -[3 26] ;Half-title, " II I.-The Third Time," 
 [Y 4 ] (verso blank), pp. [3 2 7 ]-[ 3 2 8] ; Text, [Y5HZ8] and A A 1 -H H 1 , 
 ineights,pp.329-466;Half-title,"Petitions,"[HH2](versonote),pp. 
 [467]-468;Text,[HH3]-[HH 4 ](versoblank),pp. 4 69-[472];«Index," 
 ending with imprint,in eights,[HH5]-[Il2], pp. 473-484. 
 
 This work, which is published anonymously, is the first volume of a se- 
 ries entitled" Famous Old Bailey Trials of the XIX Century." It con- 
 tains the most complete published account of the trial. 
 This volume contains"the evidence of witnesses, together with thepro- 
 longed cross-examination of Wilde in each of the three trials, ... as 
 fully as possible,with due regard to discretion." 
 
 The three trials refer to the libel action by Wilde against the Marquis 
 of Queensberry and to the two trials ofWilde for offenses against the 
 law of England, under Section XI of the Criminal Amendment Act of 
 1885. 
 
 Willis Vickery, in his monograph on Oscar Wilde (1906), says: "The 
 Court can convict in its charges and there was no exception in this case. 
 The charge of theCourt was asavage and brutal onslaught by the judge." 
 This is absolutely untrue. One who will take the trouble to read the 
 charge to the jury in Wilde's first trial by Mr. Justice Charles, and that 
 by Mr. Justice Wills in the second, cannot fail to be impressed with the 
 impartiality of these charges, and with the careful protection that was 
 given to the prisoner regarding his rights under the laws of evidence. 
 The cruel remarks of Justice Wills, however, when pronouncing sen- 
 tence,^ contrast with his moderation when charging the jury,were un- 
 called for and beneath the dignity of a judge. 
 
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 That Wilde was guilty might still have remained a matter of doubt to 
 many, considering the character of the witnesses against him who were 
 confessed blackmailers and whose testimony was supported by mere 
 circumstantial evidence only; but Wilde's confession of guilt made to 
 FrankHarris and dramatically related by himinhis"OscarWilde,His 
 Life and Confessions" (i 9 1 6), has put this question beyond dispute. 
 Reference: M.2LSon y Bibliography ofO scarWilde{\ 9 14)^.580^0.690. 
 
 RANSOME, Arthur. 
 Oscar Wilde || A Critical Study ||By || Arthur Ransome || Lon- 
 don || Martin Seeker || Number Five John Street || Adelphi || 
 MCMXII 
 
 Condition: 8°, dark blue cloth boards, design and lettering stamped 
 in gilt on front-cover, gilt top,uncut. Size of leaf, 8 ^ by 5^ inches. 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation : Advertisement,[Ai] (verso) (recto blank),pp.[i]-[2] ;Half- 
 title,"Oscar Wilde," [A2] (verso advertisement), pp. [3]- [4]; Title as 
 above,[A3](verso list of books"ByTheSame Author,"and copyright 
 notice), pp. [5] -[6] ; Dedication to Robert Ross, [ A4] (verso blank), pp. 
 [7]-[8];"Note,"[A5],pp.9-io; c£ Contents,"[A6](versoblank),pp. 11- 
 [i2];Text,[A7]-[03] (verso imprint), in eights, pp. i3~[2 14] ; Adver- 
 tisements, [C>4]-[0 8], five leaves without pagination. 
 The frontispiece is aphotogravure reproduced from apaintingof Wilde 
 by Harper Pennington, formerly in the possession of Robert Ross. 
 This critical work of OscarWilde's works is probably the best that has 
 been as yet published,and as a reviewer in"TheTimes"observed at the 
 time it was published, is "the first book on Wilde with a good excuse 
 for existence." 
 
 But one chapter is given to biographical matters. The book almost en- 
 tirely is devoted to a critical reviewof Wilde's poetical and prose works. 
 It is the work of a deep thinker and student who has withal a pleasant 
 literary style of expression and whose observations are deserving of the 
 greatest respect. 
 Reference: M.2LSon,Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1914)^.571, No. 666. 
 
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 RODD,Rennell. 
 Rose Leaf 1 1 And 1 1 Apple Leaf || By|| Rennell Rodd||With An 
 Introduction By||Oscar Wilde || [Device of a wax seal in red.] | 
 Philadelphia || J. M. Stoddart & Co || 1882 || Copyright, 1882, 
 byJ.M.Stoddart& Co 
 
 Condition: 8°, cream linen boards, printed in red on front-cover with 
 a design of a wax seal in gilt, gilt top, uncut. Size of leaf, 7 by 4^ inches. 
 First Edition, first issue. 
 
 Collation : Half-title, " Rose Leaf And Apple Leaf," [sig. 1 1] (verso 
 blank),pp.[i]-[2] ;Title as above,in red and black,[sig. 1 2 ](verso blank), 
 pp. [3] -[4];" Contents," [sig. i 3 ], pp. 5-6; Half-title," Oscar Wilde," 
 [sig. i 4 ] (verso small design), pp. [7]-[8] ;" L'Envoi," signed " Oscar 
 Wilde," [sig.i 5 ]-[sig. 2 5 ], pp. 1 1-28 ; Design,[sig. 26](verso blank),pp. 
 [29]-[3o] ; Half-title, " Rennell Rodd," [sig. 2 7 ](verso blank),pp. [31]- 
 [32]; Dedication to Oscar Wilde, [sig. 2g] (verso blank), pp. [33J-[34]; 
 Text, sig. 3 j-[sig. 4 S ] (verso blank), pp.3 5~[6o] ; Design, [sig. 46 ](verso 
 blank), pp. [6 1]-[62] ; Half-title, " Sonnets," [sig. 4 7 ] (verso blank), pp. 
 [63H64] ; Text, [sig. 4s]-[ si g- 5 *]> PP- 6 S~1° 5 Design, [sig. 5 3 ] (verso 
 blank),pp.[7 1 ]-[72] ; Half-title,"Songs," [sig. 5 4 ](verso blank),pp.[73]- 
 [ 74 ];Text,[sig.5 5 ]-[sig.5 7 ],pp.75-8o;Design,[sig.5 8 ](versoblank),pp. 
 [8i]-[82];Text,sig. 6i-8i(verso blank), in eights, pp. 83~[n6] ; Four 
 blank leaves. Pages 9 and 10 are omitted in pagination. 
 There are fourteen illustrations by J. E. Kelly, five full-page designs 
 and nine vignette tail-pieces. 
 
 The end-papers are white with green-flowered design. 
 Walter Hamilton in "The Aesthetic Movement in England, 1882," 
 says of Wilde's introduction that "(though written in prose) [it] reads 
 like a poem in praise of a poem, for his language is rich and musical, 
 though perhaps his style may be thought a trifle involved." 
 
 References: DeRicci,TkeBookCo/Iecior y sGuide(ig2i),p.62 '^ Mason, 
 Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1 9 i4),pp. 1 78 -1 79, No. 241 . 
 
 RODD, Rennell. 
 Rose Leaf 1 1 And || Apple Leaf || By || Rennell Rodd || With An 
 
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 Introduction By || Oscar Wilde || [Device of a wax seal in red.] || 
 Philadelphia || J. M. Stoddart & Co. || 1 882 1| Copyright, 1882, 
 byJ.M.Stoddart & Co. 
 
 Condition : 8°,full vellum,printed in red and black with seal in brown, 
 gilt inside borders, gilt top, uncut, enclosed in a full crimson crushed 
 levant solander case by Zucker.The John B. Stetson, Jr., copy. Size of 
 leaf, 6yi by 4 inches. 
 First Edition, second issue. 
 
 Collation: Preliminary blank leaf,leaf [2] ; Half-title, "Rose Leaf 
 And Apple Leaf," leaf [3] ; Title as above, in red and brown, leaf [4] ; 
 " Contents," sig. 1 V[sig. 1 * a ], leaves $-6 ; Half-title, " Oscar Wilde," 
 [sig.i* 3 ],leaf [7]; Design,[sig.i* 4 ],leaf[8];"L'Envoi," signed by Oscar 
 Wilde,sig.2 I -[sig.4 2 ],leavesn-28;Design,[sig.4 3 ],leaf[29][and3o]; 
 Half-title, "Rennell Rodd," [sig. 4J, leaf [31] [and 32]; Dedication, 
 "To Oscar Wilde-' Heart's Brother'-,"sig. 4*!, leaf [33] [and 34]; 
 Text, [sig. 4*2]-[sig. 7*J, leaves 3 5-59 [and 60] ; Design, [sig. 7*3], leaf 
 [61] [and 62]; Half-title," Sonnets," [sig. 7* 4 ],leaf [63] [and 64]; Text, 
 sig.8!-[sig.8* 2 ], leaves 65-70; Design,[sig.8* 3 ],leaf [71] [and 72];Half- 
 title,"Songs,"[sig.8* 4 ],leaf[73][and74];Text,sig.9 I -[sig.9* 2 ],leaves 
 75-80; Design, [sig. 9*3], leaf [81] [and 82];Text,[sig. 9* 4 ]-[sig.i3* 4 ], 
 in double signatures of fours each, leaves 83-1 i5;Three blank leaves 
 at end. 
 
 Leaves 9 and 10 are omitted in this edition, corresponding with pages 
 9 and 10 which are also omitted in the regular edition. Contains alter- 
 nate thin leaves of apple-green paper. 
 
 There are fourteen illustrations byJ.E.Kelly,comprising five full-page 
 designs and nine vignette tail-pieces. 
 
 On the front-cover is the autographic inscription : " Oscar Wilde Sep- 
 tember,' 8 2.," and on the fly-leaf is the autographic signature of J.Mar- 
 shall Stoddart. 
 
 Laid in are two autograph letters,one fromJ.M.Stoddart,Philadelphia, 
 September 2 1 ,1 893, to Herbert S. Stone relative to this work,and one 
 from Louis J. Rhead,Flatbush, August 28, 1 893, to Stone and Kimball 
 
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 regarding sketches for title-pages for a new edition projected by them. 
 Two of the original sketches accompany this letter. 
 
 The seal-device on the title-page is that of one given to Wilde by his 
 mother. 
 
 The curious paper upon which the book is printed was originally in- 
 tended for early paper currency and was found in an old Philadelphia 
 warehouse,where it had been stored since the Revolution. 
 
 J. M. Stoddart,in a letter printed in the Mosher edition of 1 906, makes 
 the statement that this edition consisted of not more than 250 copies 
 and was priced at $1.75, but that Brentano sold many of them for S3. 00 
 and more after having secured Wilde's autograph on the cover. 
 
 James Rennell Rodd was a contemporary of Wilde at Oxford. He was 
 educated at Balliol and won the Newdigate Prize for English verse in 
 1 8 8o,two years afterWilde had gained the same prize with"Ravenna." 
 In 1 8 8 1 , Rodd published through David Bogue a volume of verse en- 
 titled"Songs in the South/'and in a presentation copy,inscribed"Ren- 
 nell to Oscar. July 1 8 8o,"wrote some prophetic lines in Italian of which 
 the following is a rough translation : "At thy martyrdom the greedy 
 and cruel crowd to which thou speakest will assemble; all will come to 
 see thee on thy cross, and not one will have pity on thee ! " 
 
 During his visit to America in 1 882,Wilde had the volume reprinted 
 under the title of "Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf/'and wrote "L'Envoi" 
 as an introduction. Rodd objected to the effusive dedication for which 
 Wilde was undoubtedly responsible. Two poems which had appeared 
 in"Songs in the South" were omitted in this volume; and nine other 
 poems by Rodd not previously collected were added. Some passages 
 in"L'Envoi" had appeared in his lecture on the "English Renais- 
 sance," which he delivered on his tour of America, in 1882. In this in- 
 troduction we find Wilde at his very best as a critic and as a masterful 
 prose writer. Its effect is not marred as is so usually the case with the in- 
 troduction of epigrams and phrases foreign to the subject. It is a splen- 
 did essay on the beauty of art creation and expression as an end in itself, 
 without regard to subject matter or metaphysical ideas. Advancing the 
 views held by the aesthetes he acknowledges the debt that that cult owed 
 
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 to Ruskin for his teaching "the knowledge of all noble living and of the 
 wisdom of all spiritual things," but points out the departure from the 
 teachings of Ruskin in the insistence placed by aestheticism on the "in- 
 creased sense of the absolutely satisfying value of beautiful workman- 
 ship," and on the sensuous in art and on the love of art for art's sake. 
 
 Reference: Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (19 14), pp. 179-186, 
 
 No. 242. 
 
 SALTUS, Edgar. 
 Oscar Wilde 1 1 An Idler's Impression || By || Edgar Saltus || [Pub- 
 lishers' device.] || Chicago || Brothers Of The Book || 1 9 1 7 
 
 Condition: 8°,full vellum, boards, gilt, uncut. Size of leaf, 8*^ by 5^ 
 
 inches. 
 
 First Edition. 
 
 Collation: Two preliminary blank leaves,pp.[i]-[4] ;Half-title,"Os- 
 
 car Wilde: An Idler's Impression," one leaf (verso blank), pp. [5J-[6]; 
 
 Title as above, one leaf (verso copyright notice), pp. [7]-[8] ; Remarks 
 
 on the issues of the first edition, "This Copy is Number 19," with the 
 
 autographic signature of Edgar Saltus, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [9]- 
 
 [10]; Second half-title, one leaf (verso blank), pp. [1 i]-[i2];Text, pp. 
 
 1 3-26; Colophon, ending with publishers' device and Latin motto, one 
 
 leaf (verso blank), in eights, pp. [2 7]-[2 8]; Two blank leaves. 
 
 There were 49 copies of this issue of the first edition printed on Ino- 
 machi vellum, in full binding, each copy autographed by the author. 
 The type from which this edition was printed has been distributed and 
 no second edition will appear. 
 
 This is a chatty monograph on Wilde's personality. The author is fully 
 appreciative of Wilde's undeniable gifts as a "causeur"; he fails, how- 
 ever, to recognize in Wilde the talents that others have not failed to 
 discover. He says : " Besides, in his talk he was lord and more— sultan, 
 Pontifex maximus.Hood,Jerrold, Smith, Sheridan, rolled in one,could 
 not have been as brilliant." But elsewhere he writes: "Wilde was a third- 
 rate poet who occasionally rose to the second class but not to the first. 
 Prose is more difficult than verse and in it he is rather sloppy." Saltus 
 
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 in this criticism put himself in a class with Lord Alfred Douglas-a po- 
 sition not entirely enviable. 
 
 SCOTT,Temple. 
 
 The Wisdom 1 1 Of 1 1 Oscar Wilde 1 1 Selected With Introduction 1 1 
 And Index || By 1 1 Temple Scott|| New York||Brentano's Union 
 
 Square || MCMVIII 
 
 CoNDiTiON:i6°,darkredlimpleatherwithdesignandletteringstamped 
 ingilt,giltback,edgesgilt. Size of leaf, 5 by 4^ inches. 
 
 Second Edition. 
 
 CoLLATiON:Half-title,"The Wisdom OfOscarWilde,"one leaf (verso 
 
 "Note"),pp.[i]-[ii]; Title as above, in red and black, one leaf (verso 
 copyright notice),pp.[iii]-[iv];Introduction,twoleaves,pp.v-viii;Text, 
 
 pp.i-i03;Blank,p.[io 4 ]. 
 There are no signature marks. 
 
 The title is within a double ruled border; each page of the text is with- 
 in a single line border; and the subject of each quotation is stated in a 
 marginal note. 
 REFERENCE:Mason,5/M^r^/^o/Oj^r^F//^(i9i4) J p-5 62 > No - 6 43- 
 
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 INDEX TO WRITINGS OF OSCAR WILDE 
 
 Avelmperatrix. Snohomish, Washington: 
 1902. Limited edition, 24. 
 
 The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London -.{Leon- 
 ard Smithers), 1898. First edition, 20-22. 
 
 The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London: {Leon- 
 ard Smithers),i8p8. Second edition, 22. 
 
 The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London: {Leon- 
 ard Smithers), 1899. Eighth edition, 
 22-23. 
 
 The Ballad Of Reading Gaol. New Tork: 
 ( Brentano's), IOIO, 2 J. 
 
 The Ballad of Reading Gaol. New Tork: 
 (Brentano's), [n. d. ] , 23-24. 
 
 The Duchess Of Padua. 1883. First edition, 
 privately printed as Manuscript, 36-39. 
 
 Envoi, P . See Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf. Lon- 
 don: 1904. Privately printed edition, 
 24-23. 
 
 The Harlot' 's House. 1903. Privately printed 
 
 edition, 23-26. 
 The Harlot'' s House. Boston : ( John W. Luce 
 
 And Company), 191 o. Pirated edition, 26. 
 
 An Ideal Husband. London : ( Leonard Smith- 
 
 ers And Co.), 1899. First edition, first 
 
 is sue, 3 8-3 9. 
 An Ideal Husband. London: (Leonard Smith- 
 
 ers And Co. ) , 1899. First edition, second 
 
 issue, 39-60. 
 An Ideal Husband. London : (Leonard Smith- 
 
 ers And Co.), 1899. First edition, third 
 
 issue, 60. 
 An Ideal Husband. London: (Methuen £9* 
 
 Co. Ltd.), ^1914'] . Acting edition, 60-61. 
 
 The Importance Of Being Earnest. London: 
 
 ( Leonard Smithers And Co. ) , 1899. First 
 
 edition, first issue, 37-38. 
 The Importance Of Being Earnest. London : 
 
 (Leonard Smithers And Co.), 1899. First 
 
 edition, second issue, 38. 
 
 J.,M.B.SeeToM.B.J.,28. 
 
 Lady Windermere' 's Fan. London: (Elk in 
 Mathews And John Lane), 1893. First 
 edition, first issue, 49-30. 
 
 Lady Windermere's Fan. London : (Elk in 
 Mathews And John Lane), 1893. First 
 edition, second issue, 30-31. 
 
 Lady Windermere's Fan. 1893. Acting edi- 
 tion, 32-33. 
 
 Lady Windermere' s Fan. Paris: 1903. 
 Pirated edition, 31-32. 
 
 Lecture On The English Renaissance. See 
 Poems, New Tork: ( Munro),[i882~\ , 
 9-IO. 
 
 Lecture On The English Renaissance. See 
 Poems. Paris .-1903, 12-13. 
 
 Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna. Oxford: 
 ( Thos. Shrimp ton And Son), 18/8. First 
 edition, 3-3. 
 
 The Plays Of Oscar Wilde. Boston .-(John 
 W. Luce y Company), 61-62. 
 
 Poems in Prose. Greenwich, Connecticut : 
 (Literary Collector Press), 1903, 
 27-28. 
 
 Poems in Prose. Paris: 1903. Pirated edi- 
 tion, privately printed, 26-2 J. 
 
 Poems. London: (Bogue),i88l. First edi- 
 tion, 3-8. 
 
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 Poems. London: {Bogue),l88l. Second edi- 
 tion, 8. 
 
 Poems. Boston: {Roberts Bros.),l88l. 
 First authorized American edition, 8-9. 
 
 Poems. New York: { George Munro), 
 [1882] , 9-10. 
 
 Poems. London : {Elkin Mathews & John 
 Lane) , 1892. Author's edition, 10-11. 
 
 Poems. New Tor k: {George Munro' 1 's Sons), 
 {1 893^,11-1 2. 
 
 Poems. Paris: 1903. Pirated edition, 12-13. 
 
 Poems. Paris: 1903. Pirated edition on Jap- 
 anese vellum, 13. 
 
 Poems. New York: {Brentand's) , 1913, 
 13-16. 
 
 Poetical Works. Portland, Maine: { Mosher) , 
 1908,13-13. 
 
 Ravenna. See Newdigate Prize Poem, 3-3. 
 
 Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf . U Envoi. London: 
 
 1904. Privately printed edition, 24-23. 
 
 Salome. Londres: { Elkin Mathews et John 
 
 Lane), 1 893. First edition, 39-44. 
 Salome. London: {Elkin Mathews tif John 
 
 Lane), 1894. First English edition, first 
 
 issue, 44-43. 
 Salome. London: {Elkin Mathews & John 
 
 Lane), 1894. First English edition, second 
 
 issue, 43-46. 
 Salome. San Francisco: { The Paper Covered 
 
 Book Store), 1 896, 46. 
 Salome. London : { Melmoth & Co.), 1 904. 
 
 Pirated edition, first issue, 46-47. 
 
 Salome. London : { Melmoth & Co. ) , 1904. 
 Pirated edition, second issue, 47. 
 
 Salome. London: {John Lane), 1 907, 47-48. 
 
 Salome. Boston: { John W. Luce tff Com- 
 pany), 1907,48-49. 
 
 The Sphinx. London: {Elkin Mathews And 
 John Lane), 1 894. First edition, 16-18. 
 
 The Sphinx. London: 1 901. Limited edition, 
 privately printed, 18-19. 
 
 The Sphinx. London: {John Lane), 1 920. 
 Limited edition, illustrated by Alastair, 
 19-20. 
 
 To M. B. J. \_Hampstead: {John Rodker) , 
 1920. ] First edition, 28. 
 
 Vera; Or, The Nihilists. London : {Ranken 
 & Co.), 1880. First edition, 33-33. 
 
 Vera; Or, The Nihilists. 1882. Second edi- 
 tion, 33-36. 
 
 Vera; Or, The Nihilists. 1902. Pirated edi- 
 tion, privately printed, 36. 
 
 A Woman Of No Importance. London: { Elkin 
 
 Mathews And John Lane), 1 894. The 
 
 Proof Copy, 33-33. 
 A Woman Of No Importance. London: 
 
 { John Lane) , 1894. First edition, second 
 
 issue, 33. 
 A Woman Of No Importance. London : { John 
 
 Lane) , 1894. First edition, third issue, 
 
 A Woman Of No Importance. Paris : 1903. 
 Pirated edition, 36-37. 
 
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 INDEX TO WILDEIANA 
 
 The Esthetic Movement In England. Ham- 
 ilton, Walter. Second edition, 73. 
 
 [Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice S ten net t, 
 {and others) . ] Aristophanes At Oxford. 
 First edition, 67-68. 
 
 [Amherst, Margaret Susan Tyssen, Editor. ] 
 In a Good Cause. First edition, 68. 
 
 Aristophanes At Oxford. [Amery, L. C. M., 
 and others. ] First edition, 67-68. 
 
 Bibliography Of Oscar Wilde. Mason, 
 
 Stuart. First edition, 82. 
 Bibliography Of Oscar Wilde. Mason, 
 
 Stuart. Edition de luxe, 83. 
 A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde. 
 
 Mason, Stuart. First edition, 84. 
 Birnbaum, Martin. Oscar Wilde. Fragments 
 
 And Memories. Limited edition, 68-69. 
 Blei, Franz. See La Jeunesse, Ernest. 
 \Bloxam, John Francis.] The Priest And 
 
 The Acolyte. Second edition, 69-70. 
 Br'emont, Anna Elizabeth, Comtesse De. 
 
 Oscar Wilde And His Mother. First edi- 
 tion, 70. 
 
 Cowley-Brown, John Stapleton, Editor. 
 
 See The Goose-Quill, 73-74. 
 Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson. The 
 
 First Stone. First edition, 70-71. 
 Cruso, Henry A If or d Antony. See Amery, 
 
 Aristophanes at Oxford, 67-68. 
 
 Douglas, Alfred, Lord. Oscar Wilde And 
 
 Myself. First American edition, J 1-72. 
 
 Dublin Verses. Hinkson, Henry A. , 77-78. 
 
 The First Stone. Crosland, T. W. H. First 
 edition, 70-71. 
 
 Gide, Andre. Oscar Wilde. A Study From 
 The French. First edition in English, 
 
 72-73- 
 Gide Andre. See La Jeunesse, Ernest. 
 The Goose-Quill. Cowley-Brown, John 
 
 Stapleton, Editor. First edition, 73-74. 
 The Green Carnation. \_Hichens, Robert 
 
 Smythe. ] First American edition, 77. 
 
 Hagemann, Carl. Wilde-Brevier. German 
 edition, 74. 
 
 Hamilton, Walter. The^Esthetic Movement 
 in England. Second edition, 73. 
 
 Harris, Frank. Oscar Wilde. His Life And 
 Confessions. Special edition, 73-77. 
 
 \_Hichens, Robert Smythe. ~\The Green Car- 
 nation. First American edition, 77. 
 
 Hinkson, Henry A. Dublin Verses, 77-78. 
 
 Hirst, Francis Wrigley. See Amery, Aris- 
 tophanes at Oxford, 67-68. 
 
 In a Good Cause. \_Amherst, Margaret Susan 
 Tyssen, Editor. ] First edition, 68. 
 
 Ingleby, Leonard Creswell. Oscar Wilde. 
 Second edition, 78-79. 
 
 Kenilworth, Walter Winston. A Study of 
 Oscar Wilde. First edition, 79-80. 
 
 La Jeunesse, Ernest, Gide, Andre, and Bid, 
 
 Franz. Recollections Of Oscar Wilde, 
 
 80-81. 
 Lounsbery, G. Constant. The Picture Of 
 
 Dorian Gray, A Play. First edition, 
 
 81-82. 
 
 Mason, Stuart. Bibliography Of Oscar 
 Wilde. First edition, 82. 
 
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 Mason, Stuart. Bibliography Of Oscar 
 Wilde. Edition de luxe, 8 J. 
 
 Mason, Stuart. A Bibliography of the Poems 
 of Oscar Wilde. First edition, 84. 
 
 Mason, Stuart. Oscar Wilde and The Aes- 
 thetic Movement, 85. 
 
 Mason, Stuart, Editor. Oscar Wilde. Art 
 and Morality. First edition, 8 J. 
 
 Mason, Stuart. The Oscar Wilde Calendar. 
 First edition, 86. 
 
 Millard, Christopher Sclater. See Mason, 
 Stuart. 
 
 Oscar Wilde. Ingleby, Leonard Creswell. 
 
 Second edition, 78-79. 
 Oscar Wilde. A Critical Study. Ransome, 
 
 Arthur. First edition, 88. 
 Oscar Wilde. An Idler's Impression. Saltus, 
 
 Edgar. First edition, 92-9J. 
 Oscar Wilde. Art and Morality. Mason, 
 
 Stuart, Editor. First edition, 85. 
 Oscar Wilde. Fragments And Memories. 
 
 Birnbaum, Martin. Limited edition, 68-69. 
 Oscar Wilde. His Life And Confessions. 
 
 Harris, Frank. Special edition, 75-77- 
 Oscar Wilde. A Study From The French. 
 
 Gide, Andre. First edition in English, 
 
 72-73- 
 
 Oscar Wilde. Three Times Tried. First edi- 
 tion, 86-88. 
 
 Oscar Wilde And His Mother. Bremont, Anna 
 Elizabeth, Comtesse de. First edition, 70. 
 
 Oscar Wilde And Myself. Douglas, Alfred, 
 Lord. First American edition, 71-72. 
 
 Oscar Wilde and The Aesthetic Movement. 
 Mason, Stuart, 85. 
 
 The Oscar Wilde Calendar. Mason, Stuart. 
 First edition, 86. 
 
 The Picture Of Dorian Gray : A Play. Louns- 
 bery, G. Constant. First edition, 81-82. 
 
 The Priest and the Acolyte. \_Bloxam,John 
 Francis. ] Second edition, 69-70. 
 
 Ransome, Arthur. Oscar Wilde. A Critical 
 
 Study. First edition, 88. 
 Recollections Of Oscar Wilde. Lajeunesse, 
 
 Ernest, Gide, Andre, and Blei, Franz, 
 
 80-81. 
 Rodd, Rennell. Rose Leaf And Apple Leaf. 
 
 First edition, fir st issue, 89. 
 Rodd, Rennell. Rose Leaf And Apple Leaf. 
 
 First edition, second issue, 89-92. 
 Rose Leaf And Apple Leaf. Rodd, Rennell. 
 
 First edit ion, fir st issue, 89. 
 Rose Leaf And Apple Leaf. Rodd, Rennell. 
 
 First edition, second issue, 89-92. 
 
 Saltus, Edgar. Oscar Wilde An Idler'' s Im- 
 pression. First edition, 92-93. 
 Scott, Temple. The Wisdom Of Oscar Wilde. 
 
 Second edit ion, 93. 
 A Study of Oscar Wilde. Kenilworth, Walter 
 
 Winston. First edition, 79-80. 
 
 Wilde-Brevier. Hagemann, Carl. German 
 
 edition, 74. 
 The Wisdom Of Oscar Wilde. Scott, Temple. 
 
 Second edition, 9J. 
 
 T. T. 0. See Amery, Aristophanes at Ox- 
 ford, 67-68. 
 
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 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 WILDE.— On the 30th Nov., 1900, at No. 13, Bnedes 
 Beaux Arts, Paris, Oscar Wilde, Author of Salome 
 and other works. Fortified by the Sacraments of the 
 Catholic Church. Interred at Pere Lachaise.
 
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