[WILDE, Oscar] The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3. 3., London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. 8°, half title (later half tone portrait tipped-in to inner margin of title, near-contemporary newspaper article laid down on rear pastedown), original cream and mustard-yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt (lightly soiled), bookplate of J. Scott Fraser.

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[WILDE, Oscar] The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3. 3., London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. 8°, half title (later half tone portrait tipped-in to inner margin of title, near-contemporary newspaper article laid down on rear pastedown), original cream and mustard-yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt (lightly soiled), bookplate of J. Scott Fraser.

FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 830 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 800 on van Gelder Dutch hand-made paper. Mason p.76.

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