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A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde, 1891
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). A House of Pomegranates. London: James R. Osgood, 1891.

First edition, one of 1000 copies, from the library of Michael Sadleir. Featuring design and decoration by Charles Ricketts & C.H. Shannon, Wilde's second collection of stories were fairy tales that he famously quipped were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public."

Quarto. (A little foxing to fore-edges.) Original decorated cloth (upper cover a little darkened, lower cover a little mottled). Provenance: Michael Sadleir (British publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer, 1888-1957; bookplate) – Llewellyn Wright (bookplate).

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