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WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York and Melbourne: Ward Lock & Co, 1891, 4°, FIRST EDITION, EDITION DE LUXE, limited to 250 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper signed by the author, original vellum-backed grey boards, gilt butterfly design by Charles Rickets on upper cover (spine darkened, head and foot of spine torn with loss, covers lightly soiled, small red ink stain affecting lower cover, extremities rubbed), t.e.g. [Mason 329] Provenance: Lady Meux, Theobalds Park, June 12th 1895 (inscription on front pastedown).