WILDE, Oscar. Salome. A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French [by Lord Alfred Douglas], London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1894, 4°, limited to 600 copies, this one of 500 copies on paper, first edition in English, frontispiece, title design, design on List of Pictures, 9 plates and powder-puff tail-piece from line-blocks by Carl Hentschel after Beardsley, with 8 leaves of publisher's advertisements at end, original blue canvas, with gilt-stamped design by Beardsley on upper cover and his Japanese monogram on lower cover (spine slightly faded). [Mason 350]

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WILDE, Oscar. Salome. A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French [by Lord Alfred Douglas], London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1894, 4°, limited to 600 copies, this one of 500 copies on paper, first edition in English, frontispiece, title design, design on List of Pictures, 9 plates and powder-puff tail-piece from line-blocks by Carl Hentschel after Beardsley, with 8 leaves of publisher's advertisements at end, original blue canvas, with gilt-stamped design by Beardsley on upper cover and his Japanese monogram on lower cover (spine slightly faded). [Mason 350]

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