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WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Salome. A Tragedy in One Act, London: John Lane, 1907. 4° (214 x 170mm). Half title, frontispiece, title, additional title and list of pictures within decorative border and 12 plates by Aubrey Beardsley, 2-pages publisher's advertisements at end. Original green decorated cloth after a design by Aubrey Beardsley. Mason p.548.
With 24 other early 20th-century illustrated books including W. W. Denslow & Dudley A. Bragdon's Billy Bounce (New York, G. W. Dillingham, 1906), Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (London, 1909, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, cloth), Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (London, 1928, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, cloth), James Boyd's Drums (New York, 1928, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth), Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ([London, Boots, n.d.]., illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson), Laurence Housman's Stories from the Arabian Nights ([London, Boots, n.d.]. illustrated by Edmund Dulac) and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (London, [n.d.], illustrated by Abanindro Nath Tagore), (25)
With 24 other early 20th-century illustrated books including W. W. Denslow & Dudley A. Bragdon's Billy Bounce (New York, G. W. Dillingham, 1906), Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (London, 1909, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, cloth), Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (London, 1928, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, cloth), James Boyd's Drums (New York, 1928, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth), Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ([London, Boots, n.d.]., illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson), Laurence Housman's Stories from the Arabian Nights ([London, Boots, n.d.]. illustrated by Edmund Dulac) and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (London, [n.d.], illustrated by Abanindro Nath Tagore), (25)
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