BIB_ID
282141
Accession number
MA 7258.7
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
ca. 1888.
Credit line
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles, 2008.
Description
1 item (8 p., including cover sheet), bound ; 32.9 cm
Notes
Manuscript in ink in Constance Wilde's hand with revisions in pencil in Oscar Wilde's hand.
The cover sheet, in Oscar Wilde's hand, reads "The Selfish Giant / by Oscar Wilde;" with notes at the foot of the page in other hands; signed by Oscar Wilde at the foot of the last page of the manuscript.
The cover sheet, in Oscar Wilde's hand, reads "The Selfish Giant / by Oscar Wilde;" with notes at the foot of the page in other hands; signed by Oscar Wilde at the foot of the last page of the manuscript.
Provenance
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles in 2008; from the collection of Francis, 11th Marquess of Queensberry; sold at auction in London in 1951; offered by Maggs, 1953; location unknown from 1953 until its acquisition by Walter and Lucia Moreira Salles (year of acquisition unknown).
Summary
Written on the rectos of 8 pages with revisions in pencil throughout.
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