BIB_ID
120334
Accession number
MA 3574
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
[?1876].
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Description
1 item (45 p.), bound ; 33.6 cm
Notes
Being an unfinished manuscript believed to have been written in 1876 while Wilde was an undergraduate at Magdalen College at Oxford; reviewing the chapter titled "The Women of Homer" in J.A. Symonds' "Studies of the Greek Poets" (Second Series), published in 1876.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch in 1981 from the collections of Christopher Millard and Marjorie Wiggin Prescott; purchased at the Prescott sale, Christie's New York, February 1981.
Summary
Written on the rectos of 45 leaves, additions on the versos of 4 leaves and revisions throughout.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (37.3 cm)
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