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WILDE, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854-1900). Intentions. The Decay of Lying. Pen Pencil and Poison. The Critic as Artist. The Truth of Masks. London: Gilbert and Rivington, Limited for James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891.
8° (206 x 137mm). (Very lightly browned, a few unobtrusive inkmarks on lower margins.) Original green cloth gilt designed by Charles Ricketts, upper board gilt with title and design, spine lettered in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, lightly marked, splitting on hinges and bookblock), 20th-century morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: presentation inscription from Wilde on front free endpaper, the recipient's name heavily deleted in ink -- Mary Pinkerton Carlisle (d. 1938, gilt morocco booklabel).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILDE. Intentions collects five essays by Wilde that had previously been published in periodicals, and then extensively re-worked by Wilde for publication in volume form. 1,500 sets of first edition sheets were printed, of which 900 were issued in England and 600 were issued in the United States under Dodd, Mead and Co.'s imprint with a cancellans title. The name of the recipient of this copy has been obliterated by dense scoring, possibly by a descendant or relative who desired to conceal the connexion after Wilde's trial and conviction. Mason 341.
8° (206 x 137mm). (Very lightly browned, a few unobtrusive inkmarks on lower margins.) Original green cloth gilt designed by Charles Ricketts, upper board gilt with title and design, spine lettered in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, lightly marked, splitting on hinges and bookblock), 20th-century morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: presentation inscription from Wilde on front free endpaper, the recipient's name heavily deleted in ink -- Mary Pinkerton Carlisle (d. 1938, gilt morocco booklabel).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILDE. Intentions collects five essays by Wilde that had previously been published in periodicals, and then extensively re-worked by Wilde for publication in volume form. 1,500 sets of first edition sheets were printed, of which 900 were issued in England and 600 were issued in the United States under Dodd, Mead and Co.'s imprint with a cancellans title. The name of the recipient of this copy has been obliterated by dense scoring, possibly by a descendant or relative who desired to conceal the connexion after Wilde's trial and conviction. Mason 341.
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