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WILDE, Oscar. [Works]. London: Methuen [with the exception of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Paris: Charles Carrington], 1908.
14 volumes, 8o. Contemporary green morocco gilt, spines in six compartments, gilt lettered in two, others gilt with central red morocco inlay, original vellum upper covers bound in at end (light wear to some joints and spine ends).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 80 sets on Japanese vellum.
[With:] WILDE. Autograph letter signed ("Oscar Wilde") to unidentified correspondent, London, 16 Tite Street, Chelsea, n.d. [ca. Nov. 1885]. 4 pages, 8vo, edges chipped, a closed tear on final page, tipped to the front flyleaf. Newly married and with a young son, Wilde lectured across England in order to maintain his family at their new home (16 Tite Street). Here he discusses one of his standard talks: "I find that my lecture on 'Dress,' which I delivered to the Sunday Lecture Society at Glasgow some weeks ago, is one eminently suited to a large popular audience: as it deals with a subject which has to do with the health and the economy of a nation, modern dress being as deforming as it is exrtravagant." Not until the success of Dorian Gray in 1891 did Wilde leave the lecture circuit.
[And With:] HARRIS, Frank. Oscar Wilde. His Life and Confessions. New York: printed and published by the author, 1916. 2 volumes, 8o. Contemporary calf gilt, with green morocco inlaid corner pieces, spines with two gilt lettered green morocco lettering pieces, by Zaehnsdorf, top edge gilt. (16)
14 volumes, 8
LIMITED EDITION, one of 80 sets on Japanese vellum.
[With:] WILDE. Autograph letter signed ("Oscar Wilde") to unidentified correspondent, London, 16 Tite Street, Chelsea, n.d. [ca. Nov. 1885]. 4 pages, 8vo, edges chipped, a closed tear on final page, tipped to the front flyleaf. Newly married and with a young son, Wilde lectured across England in order to maintain his family at their new home (16 Tite Street). Here he discusses one of his standard talks: "I find that my lecture on 'Dress,' which I delivered to the Sunday Lecture Society at Glasgow some weeks ago, is one eminently suited to a large popular audience: as it deals with a subject which has to do with the health and the economy of a nation, modern dress being as deforming as it is exrtravagant." Not until the success of Dorian Gray in 1891 did Wilde leave the lecture circuit.
[And With:] HARRIS, Frank. Oscar Wilde. His Life and Confessions. New York: printed and published by the author, 1916. 2 volumes, 8