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WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Poems. London: by The Chiswick Press for Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1892.
8° (184 x 120mm). Half-title with woodcut decorations after Charles Ricketts on the verso and woodcut title after Ricketts. (Very occasional spotting, offsetting from free endpaper onto Q5v, lacking final blank Q7.) 20th-century purple crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the covers with gilt double fillet border, gilt board edges and gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in one compartment, the other compartments decorated with central gilt tools surrounded by gilt cornerpieces within gilt frames, gilt edges, decorated free endpapers after Ricketts bound in at the end, the original decorative gilt cloth covers and spine after Ricketts laid down and bound in at the end (skilful repair to small tear on margin of one endpaper, cloth covers slightly marked and trimmed, cloth spine a little worn causing small loss).
LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 109 OF 220 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This edition of Wilde's Poems used the sheets of David Bogue's fifth edition of 1882 - which incorporated several substantive additions and amendments, cf. Mason 308 - with a cancellans bifolium designed by Ricketts and bearing the half-title, limitation statement, and title. The penultimate leaf Q6, which bore Bogue's advertisements, was excised. A binding design (' ''The Seven Trees,'' in gold on Iris cloth', Mason 309) was also commissioned from Ricketts, and the book was published on 26 May 1892 at 15 shillings. Mason 309.
8° (184 x 120mm). Half-title with woodcut decorations after Charles Ricketts on the verso and woodcut title after Ricketts. (Very occasional spotting, offsetting from free endpaper onto Q5v, lacking final blank Q7.) 20th-century purple crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the covers with gilt double fillet border, gilt board edges and gilt turn-ins, the spine gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in one compartment, the other compartments decorated with central gilt tools surrounded by gilt cornerpieces within gilt frames, gilt edges, decorated free endpapers after Ricketts bound in at the end, the original decorative gilt cloth covers and spine after Ricketts laid down and bound in at the end (skilful repair to small tear on margin of one endpaper, cloth covers slightly marked and trimmed, cloth spine a little worn causing small loss).
LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 109 OF 220 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This edition of Wilde's Poems used the sheets of David Bogue's fifth edition of 1882 - which incorporated several substantive additions and amendments, cf. Mason 308 - with a cancellans bifolium designed by Ricketts and bearing the half-title, limitation statement, and title. The penultimate leaf Q6, which bore Bogue's advertisements, was excised. A binding design (' ''The Seven Trees,'' in gold on Iris cloth', Mason 309) was also commissioned from Ricketts, and the book was published on 26 May 1892 at 15 shillings. Mason 309.
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