• Fine Books and Manuscripts auction at Christies

    Sale 6237

    Fine Books and Manuscripts

    London, South Kensington

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    19 June 2012

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    • WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Poem
    Lot 346

    WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Poems. London: by The Chiswick Press for Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1892. 8° (184 x 120mm). Half-title with woodcut ornament on the verso and woodcut title both after Ricketts. (Very occasional spotting, offsetting from free endpaper onto Q5v, lacking final blank Q7.) 20th-century purple crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, the original pictorial cloth covers and spine after Ricketts laid-down and bound-in, printed free endpapers after Ricketts bound-in (skilful repair to small tear in margin of one endpaper, cloth covers slightly marked and trimmed, cloth spine a little worn). Provenance: W.A. Foyle (Beeleigh Abbey bookplate).

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    GBP 3,500

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    GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

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    WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Poems. London: by The Chiswick Press for Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1892. 8° (184 x 120mm). Half-title with woodcut ornament on the verso and woodcut title both after Ricketts. (Very occasional spotting, offsetting from free endpaper onto Q5v, lacking final blank Q7.) 20th-century purple crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, the original pictorial cloth covers and spine after Ricketts laid-down and bound-in, printed free endpapers after Ricketts bound-in (skilful repair to small tear in margin of one endpaper, cloth covers slightly marked and trimmed, cloth spine a little worn). Provenance: W.A. Foyle (Beeleigh Abbey bookplate).

    LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY WILDE. THE FOYLE COPY. This edition of Wilde's Poems used the sheets of David Bogue's fifth edition of 1882 -- which incorporated several substantive additions and amendments. Bogue's sheets were issued with a new title and half-title designed by Ricketts, and in a binding also by Ricketts. The penultimate leaf Q6, which bore Bogue's advertisements, was excised. Number 109 of 220 copies only. Mason 309.

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