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189814845London; Leonard Smithers Royal Arcade London W 1898. 1898. First edition first printing; one of 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper; 30 were simultaneously printed on Japanese vellum. Large post octavo pp. viii 31 1 blank. Publisher's original cinnamon-colour linen white linen spine; titles gilt to spine. Printed at the Chiswick Press but not named on the imprint. Soiling to inner edges of boards corners slightly bumped top edge dusty. Contents clean and rather bright. A very good copy. In 1895 Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years' hard labour for 'gross indecency'. This poem written while Wilde was in exile in France and Naples in 1897 uses the case of his fellow inmate Charles Thomas Wooldridge to highlight the brutality of the prison system and the irony of the state sentencing a man to death for exactly the same crime. Even without Wilde's name on the title-page the first 800 copies sold out within a week. Mikolyzk A91 Mason 371. London; Leonard Smithers Royal Arcade London W, 1898. hardcover
189811084London: Murdoch & Co 1898. First separate edition. String-bound. Near fine. 12mo 16pp. A clean sound copy in the publisher's printed wrappers near fine. This copy with the staple perished replaced by a professional conservator with archival string and a few very small paper repairs to spine. Tiny stain to the front wrap else a handsome copy indeed of this scarce and fragile Wilde volume a plea for mercy in the case of Warder Martin of Reading Gaol a particularly humane and empathetic prison guard who was dismissed Wilde asserts for his humanity towards prisoners. Wilde had grown to know Martin well during his imprisonment. The text was first published in the Daily Chronicle and this pamphlet represents the first separate edition. Mason 26. Murdoch & Co unknown
189422263London: John Lane 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end dated March 1894 Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts both of whom produced work for the Doves Press. MASON 364. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre satirizing English upper-class society. Spine dulled spine extremities creased binding tight; a sound copy. John Lane hardcover
1894WE16716London: John Lane 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition one of 500 copies only printed. Octavo in lavender cloth decorated in gilt and with spine lettered in gilt. Fore edges uncut. 154 pp. plus 16 pp. of adverts for List of Books in Belles Lettres. This copy bears the rather scarce small publisher’s bookplate on the front pastedown announcing “This Book Now Published by John Lane at the Bodley Head in Vigo St. London W.†Very good. Scattered foxing to the endpapers. Shallow wear to the spine extremities and spine a bit rubbed. Some rippling to the lower portion of the cloth on the front board. John Lane hardcover
1891wld26London: James R Osgood McIlvaine & Co. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Spine darkened and leaning. Covers lightly marked. Some edgewar to paper covers along outer edge. Wear to lower corner. Off-setting to endpapers and pastedowns. 1891. First Edition. Salmon hardback papered boards. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". 168pp. . James R Osgood, McIlvaine & Co hardcover
1899158271899. Shannon Charles. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt.<br/> <br/> First Edition consisting of 1000 regular copies so stated; there were also 100 signed copies on Van Gelder paper plus twelve signed copies on Japan vellum. This was the fourth and last of Wilde's four great comedies of manners -- following LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN published in 1893 A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 1894 and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 1899 five months earlier. "An Ideal Husband" had opened at the Theatre Royal on 3 January 1895 the actors had been quite annoyed that Wilde required them to rehearse on Christmas Day only to keep them waiting for him to appear. It was an immediate success but it was while "Earnest" and "Husband" were running that Wilde inadvisably filed suit against the Marquess of Queensberry father of Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas for criminal libel; this quickly morphed into a charge of "gross indecency" against Wilde and when he was arrested in April his plays closed. Sentenced to two years' hard labour 1895-1897 upon his release he fled to France -- where he resided when this book was published. The artistic binding design is by Charles Shannon. This is a very good copy of a book that is difficult to find in any better condition: the spine is rather dull and there is moderate cover soil. Mason 385. Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature "Wilmer C. France 1899". The pioneering female classicist Emily Wilmer Cave France 1868-1951 married name Wright after 1906 was born in Birmingham England and educated first at Girton College Cambridge then at the University of Chicago -- where she was a Fellow in Latin and in Greek while earning her Ph.D.; from 1897 until her retirement in 1933 which span includes the date this book was published she was a Professor in Greek at Bryn Mawr College. In 2022 the Cambridge Philological Society published a monograph by D.N. Greenwood about her "Steely-Eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists. unknown
189413013A SIGNED COPY !!! THE GREEN CARNATION Appleton 1894 first American edition second issue with tipped in 1895 title page pencil notations on the end-papers spine just a bit soiled else a very good to very good plus copy of the authors anonymously published first book. Signed by the author on the title page. Rare thus. This book was based on the life of Oscar Wilde and at the time did the author some considerable harm. Appleton unknown
189412350THE GREEN CARNATION Heinemann 1894 first edition just about a fine copy of the authors anonymously published first book. This book was based on the life of Oscar Wilde and at the time did the author some considerable harm. Quite scarce in this condition. Heinemann unknown
187757710THREE RARE EARLY WILDE POEMS <br />8vo. 4 collective volume title page & half-title 2 corrigenda ii 344 plus bound in at the beginning of each of the 12 issues 2 leaves with the original issue title page and its list of contributors contemporary half brown morocco brown cloth on sides very neatly rebacked with the original spine relaid very good. <br />Signed on front free end paper "T. W. Rolleston" and with quite a number of manuscript corrections throughout. <br />This magazine was first issued three issues per year as wrappered magazines. At the completion of the volume 12 issues the remaining stock was issued as a bound volumes in cloth with a general title page. However in the publisher's cloth issue the title pages and contributors lists for the individual issues were discarded as the pagination is continuous without them. Here these have most unusually been retained.<br />This volume contains in the Trinity and Michaelmas 1876 and Hilary 1877 some of the very earliest of Oscar Wilde's published work. These are Mason <i>Wilde Bibliography</i> 72 73 and 74. These all predate Wilde's first separately published book <i>Ravenna</i> of 1878 and all three were later included in Wilde's <i>Poems</i> of 1881 or 1908. <br />W. H. Rolleston was among the other contributors as was Oscar's brother William. It appears that Rolleston had these issues bound himself and so the preliminary title and list of contributor leaves for the individual issues were retained. William McGee hardcover
1894191144London: Chapman and Hall Limited July 1894. First edition and first appearance of Wilde's "Poems in Prose". The poems are printed on pages 22-29 and comprises "The Artist" "The Doer of Good" "The Disciple" "The Master" "The House of Judgment" and "The Teacher of Wisdom". Two previously appeared in The Spirit Lamp edited by Lord Alfred Douglas. Octavo. Early 20th-century grey cloth red morocco spine label bound with original wrappers. Red morocco booklabel of Alfred Sutro 1863-1933 English dramatist and translator; bookplate of William Roughead 1870-1952 designed by Robert Home and dated 1907; bookseller's ticket of William Brown Edinburgh; "Butteris" bookseller stamp to front wrapper. Spine ends bumped abrasion to spine label and first ad leaf minor nicks and marks to some pages. A very good copy. Mason 56. hardcover
1894304822London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1894. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. Spine faded cloth at extremities frayed corners bumped some soiling to cloth front flyelaf and first blank torn at gutter. Good. First edition one of 500 copies. 154 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Mason 365 John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh unknown
189412118London: John Lane 1894. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st edition newly rebound in brown leather with a gilt-stamped red leather title piece and Florentine marbled endpapers. New binding fine; the text pages are about good plus. All are toned brown near the edges. The first blank of 2 before the title page bears a gift inscr. in French; that page also chipped at the corners. An owner's name is upside down on the final blank. 154 pp. 16-p. publisher's catalog. <br/> <br/> John Lane hardcover
18401002Y49Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company 1840. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated . The complete first edition of this travelogue from Oscar Wilde's father William Wilde with illustrations. First edition. Complete in two volumes.In the original cloth binding. Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven vignettes.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece two hand coloured plates two maps and fourteen vignettes.Collated complete.A compelling account of a voyage to Madeira Teneriffe and the shores of the Mediterranean including visits to Algiers Egypt Palestine Tyre Rhodes Telmessus Cyprus and Greece. With the author's keen observations on the climate natural history antiquities and prospects of the countries visited.From William Wilde an Irish ophthalmogic surgeon and the author of important works on medicine archaeology and folklore. He was the father of influential author and poet Oscar Wilde.Wilde travelled for nine months as medical attendant to Robert Meiklam the owner of the yacht Crusader who made the sketches for the plates. In the original cloth binding. Externally with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading and marks to the cloth. Split to the cloth to Vol II rear joint which remains firm. Internally generally firmly bound with pp. 5-12 coming away to Vol II. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot or handling mark. Contemporary ownership inscription to each front free endpaper. Good William Curry, Jun. and Company hardcover
1891001793Cleveland Ohio: James R. Osgood 1891. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. In original paper covers and spine with light wear and soiling; spine missing 2 small pieces; previous owner's leather book plate 2" x 1/2" on front paste down; single word neatly in pencil on free fly leaf; ghost of book plate bleed through free fly leaf and title page; slightly cocked; 16mo; with 168 pages. <br/> <br/> James R. Osgood hardcover
186947911No place 1869. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers no backstrip. Offprint from the "Philosophical Magazine" January 1869. With authors presentation inscription to front wrapper: "With the author's Compliments.". Fine and clean. 9 pp. <br/><br/><em>Offprint issue with author's presentation insciption to front wrapper of Wilde's paper on how to control and render the magneto-electri current which nearly led to the discovery of the principle of self-excitation. This was however achieved by other inventors first notably Charles Wheatstone and the Siemens brothers."In 1856 Wilde established a business in Manchester as an electric-telegraph and lightning-conductor engineer and spent some years on the development of a magneto-electric alphabetic telegraph which was demonstrated at the international exhibition in London in 1862. In December 1863 he patented a twin-armature machine in which a magneto-electric generator provided excitation current for the field winding of another generator. These machines were made in quantity by Wilde & Co. but in use they had the disadvantage of becoming very hot. In 1867 Described in the present paper. he patented an entirely different type of multipolar machine which was used for electro-deposition and arc lighting. Among his other patents was one in 1875 for the making of copper rollers for calico printing.". Oxford DNB. Henry Wilde 1833 - 1919 was a wealthy individual from Manchester England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine or self-energising dynamo an invention for which Werner von Siemens is more usually credited and in fact discovered independently. At any rate Wilde was the first to publish his paper was communicated to the Royal Society by Michael Faraday in 1866. The self-energising dynamo replaces the permanent magnets of previous designs with electro-magnets and in so doing achieved an enormous increase in power. The machine was considered remarkable at the time especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt. </em> unknown
1886d2793bLondon: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and soiled. Eps darkened. Fold-out repaired with archive tape. 1886. First Edition. Blue hardback boards with cream vellum spine. 320mm x 240mm 13" x 9". vi 160pp plates. 9 plates 6 b/w 3 sepia 1 fold-out. With Glasgow Arts Club bookplate. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Kegan Paul, Trench & Co hardcover
189928234London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Good overall. A limited printing of the first edition 1000. <br /> <br /> In 1996 critic Bindon Russell wrote in "The Wildean" that "An Ideal Husband" is "the most autobiographical of Wilde's plays mirroring as it does his own situation of a double life and an incipient scandal with the emergence of terrible secrets. Whilst Lord Goring is a character with much of Wilde's own wit insight and compassion Gertrude Chiltern can be seen as a portrait of Constance Wilde." <br /> <br /> 8vo 213pp brown-red linen over boards gilt stamped decoration on front cover and spine; gilt titles on spine. Spine rebacked with the original spine laid down. With bookplates of Herschel V. Jones and Alfred and Sara Bernheim. Internally clean some pages uncut. Leonard Smithers and Co hardcover
189915144JNew York: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. First American Edition. Three pirated editions of Wilde’s classic poem were issued in America in 1899 the Tucker edition. precedes the other two and is the True First American Edition. Issued in paper wrappers and cloth this copy is the rare hardbound state. Gilt-stamped blue cloth with white cloth spine. Hinges cracked. Some minor foxing to the preliminaries at little darkening at spine very good. Rare. Benj. R. Tucker hardcover
1894102670New York: R.F. Fenno. c.1894. 1st ed. Original colour illustrated stiff wraps Japanese temple birds colour decorated endpapers pp 23. The yapp edges are bumped lightly at bottom corner with some light creasing two tiny holes backstrip and at rear cover not affecting rear endpaper. In the same format as Renno's printing of Wilde's "The Sphinx" 1894. The title page is "Rosa Mystica" but the poems included are: Requiescat Sonnet on Approaching Italy San Miniato Ava Maria Plena Gratia Italia Sonnet Written in Holy Week at Genoa Rme Unvisited Una Sacra Aeterna Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel Easter Day E Tenebris Vita Nuova Madonna Mia The New Helen. Clean. Very good condition. N.d. c. 1894. Rare Scarce early printing of a collection of Wilde's poetry in Japanese-inspired binding by a small publishing firm. Pictorial Wraps. R.F. Fenno paperback
1852190906Dublin: J. McGlashan 1852. First edition of this collection of essays on Irish folklore by Oscar Wilde's father William Wilde 1815-76. This book contains chapters on "The May-Day Festival in Ireland" and "Fairy Archaeology and Medico-Religious Ceremonies". Some chapters appeared in the Dublin University Magazine ahead of this collection. The elder Wilde was a respected surgeon who was appointed to treat Queen Victoria. He ran the St Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital for Diseases of the Eye and Ear and published works on medicine archaeology and folklore. Small octavo. Frontispiece. With 2 pp. of publisher's ads. Original yellow wrappers spine and covers lettered in black covers bordered in brown decorations. Housed in custom green cloth slipcase. Bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason; bookseller's address embossed on rear wrapper. Spine ends repaired with paper spine and front wrapper fore edge reinforced with tape wrappers a little chipped and soiled front pages up to p. 21 starting p. 23 loose. A good copy. hardcover
1889111349David Nutt. London. 1889. David Nutt. London. 1889. Second edition. There were only 1000 copies of the first edition published in 1888. Printed cream paper covered boards. soiled and rubbed lacks spine. Endpapers browned inner hinge visible contents slightly shaken a few margins thumbed. Pages toned. All three plates present but two of them - The Selfish Giant and The Remarkable Rocket coloured in. One headpiece also coloured and another headpiece partially coloured in. The frontis. of The Happy Prince remains untouched. Rear endpapers carelessly opened along top edge not affecting any text. Please contact us for more information. hardcover
1840000202Dublin: William CurryJunand Co Longman OrmeBrowne and Company London 1840. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Not called for>. Two Volumes.Original boards rebacked.New end papers. Boards and spine unevenly sunned. A tight firm set. Light sporadic foxing spots. Frontispiece Vol 1 The Yacht "Crusader" Frontispiece Vol 2 "Telmessus" from a sketch by R.Meiklam.Wilde a medical student was hired to accompany Robert Meiklam on his yacht "Crusader" " In September 1837 my friends Sir Henry Marsh and Professor Graves proposed that I should accompany as medical attendant a gentleman who was about to make a voyage for the benefit of his health. Anxiety to see the World coupled with the fact of my health then being in a precarious state induced me gladly to accept this kind offer" Contact seller regarding postage. <br/> <br/> William Curry,Jun,and Co, Longman, Orme,Browne and Company, London hardcover
1894023252London: John Lane 1894. First edition. hardcover. Good. Mauve cloth faded and soiled. Gilt on spine very faded. Paper browned. Mason 364. One of 500 copies. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed. John Lane unknown
184051206Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company; London: Longman Orme Browne and Co. 1840. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xiv 464; viii 495 1 pp. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands gilt lettered maroon labels 2 tinted lithographic frontispieces 2 plans Tyre and Jerusalem and 2 plates skulls plus numerous illustrations in the text. Some mostly light wear to the covers slight staining to the frontispieces some leaves proud towards the front of volume II though still firmly attached a decent set overall. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; London: Longman, Orme, Browne and Co. unknown
18849061<p>Scarce chromolithograph of Oscar Wilde published in Vanity Fair magazine on May 24th 1884 accompanied with a page of text. The page measures 10.5 x 15 in 27 x 38 cm.</p> Vanity Fair
