[WILDE, OSCAR]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers, 1893. 8vo, original two-toned cloth, uncut, very minor age-darkening to spine, slight soiling, otherwise a brighter copy than usual; quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, limited to 800 copies. Inscribed by Sir Frank Athelstone Swettenham (formerly Governor-General of Malay Straights Settlement) to Irène Osgood on the title page. Mason 371.

细节
[WILDE, OSCAR]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers, 1893. 8vo, original two-toned cloth, uncut, very minor age-darkening to spine, slight soiling, otherwise a brighter copy than usual; quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, limited to 800 copies. Inscribed by Sir Frank Athelstone Swettenham (formerly Governor-General of Malay Straights Settlement) to Irène Osgood on the title page. Mason 371.

拍品专文

Irene Osgood (1875-1928) was the pseudonym of Irene Harvey who married Wilde biographer R. H. Sherard.