Wilde oscar

1922 · 192880 — London: Beaumont Press 1922. An admirable amateur binding First edition extra limited issue number 15 of 75 copies printed on Japanese vellum; the colophon states that these copies signed by the publisher C. W. Beaumont and the artist Randolph Schwabe but this is unsigned. The binding is ambitiously and unusually designed its many individual uses of the gouge tool executed by an amateur hand. This is the second volume of Wilde's letters to Ross following After Reading 1921. Cyril William Beaumont 1891-1976 established his private press in 1917 which continued into the late 1920s. A further 400 copies were issued on handmade paper. Octavo 216 x 147 mm. Wood-engraved plate title page and vignettes printed in colours. Contemporary brown morocco spine lettered in gilt boards tooled with gouges in blind blind floral tools and two gilt star-shaped tools to create frames and central medallions two gilt star-shaped tools to turn-ins blue endpapers top edge gilt fore and bottom edges uncut. Boards gently bowed endpapers foxed. A near-fine copy. hardcover