Wilde oscar

1910 · WILDEOSC010155 — Samuel French London. N.D. c.1910. Reprint. Containing the unrevised text. Small octavo. pp vi 52 2 adverts. Original green wrappers with the One Shilling and Sixpence price on upper cover. The first printing had the number "1" printed beneath "The Dramatic Works of Oscar Wilde" at the top edge of the upper cover which was dropped in later printings. Also the address of the publisher was changed to "26 Southampton St. Strand". The copyright date on the title-page is given as "October 1893" sic a mistake that was allowed to remain in later issues. On the verso of the upper cover is the label of the Paris bookseller Librairie Joseph Gibert. This copy does not have the addition of the preliminary leaves called for in Mason 384 which would suggest that this is an unrecorded intermediate issue. The exceedingly fragile wrappers are chipped and a little defective at the top corner of lower wrapper. The spine is split and partially defective. Good internally fine. Samuel French, London. unknown