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WILDE, Oscar. De profundis. Edited by Robert Ross. London: T. and A. Constable for Methuen and Co., 1905.
8° (190 x 127mm). 40-page publisher's catalogue dated February 1905 bound in at the end. (Occasional light spotting, a few leaves with short marginal tears.) Original blue cloth gilt, the upper cover with gilt design of a bird flying through a grille after Charles Ricketts, top edge gilt (cloth slightly darkened, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, WITH AN EARLY STATE OF THE PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE, PRE-DATING THAT CITED BY MASON. Mason states that De profundis was published on 23 February 1905 and calls for a 40-page publisher's catalogue dated March 1905; the catalogue in this copy is dated February 1905. Mason 388.
8° (190 x 127mm). 40-page publisher's catalogue dated February 1905 bound in at the end. (Occasional light spotting, a few leaves with short marginal tears.) Original blue cloth gilt, the upper cover with gilt design of a bird flying through a grille after Charles Ricketts, top edge gilt (cloth slightly darkened, extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, WITH AN EARLY STATE OF THE PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE, PRE-DATING THAT CITED BY MASON. Mason states that De profundis was published on 23 February 1905 and calls for a 40-page publisher's catalogue dated March 1905; the catalogue in this copy is dated February 1905. Mason 388.
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