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PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT L.B. TOBIN,
SOLD TO BENEFIT THE TOBIN ENDOWMENT
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). The Picture of Dorian Gray. By Oscar Wilde. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1891.
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WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). The Picture of Dorian Gray. By Oscar Wilde. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1891.
40, original beveled gray paper boards, covers and spine blocked in gilt with repeated stylized butterfly devices (designed by Charles Ricketts), top edge gilt, others uncut (backstrip missing, front cover detached, board edges and corners worn), half gray morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 75 of 250 large-paper copies on handmade Van Gelder paper, SIGNED, "Oscar Wilde" on limitation page), PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILDE in ink on the titlepage: "To Lancelot: from his friend: the author Nov. 94." Titlepage variant with period after the word "Gray." The novel was first published in Philadelphia's Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, July 1890; Wilde's famous preface, comprising 24 aphorisms ("the artist is the creator of beautiful things," etc.), first appeared in The Fortnightly Review, March 1891. Mason 329.
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FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 75 of 250 large-paper copies on handmade Van Gelder paper, SIGNED, "Oscar Wilde" on limitation page), PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILDE in ink on the titlepage: "To Lancelot: from his friend: the author Nov. 94." Titlepage variant with period after the word "Gray." The novel was first published in Philadelphia's Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, July 1890; Wilde's famous preface, comprising 24 aphorisms ("the artist is the creator of beautiful things," etc.), first appeared in The Fortnightly Review, March 1891. Mason 329.