Accession number
PML 143168
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Published
London : John Lane, The Bodley Head ; New York : John Lane Company, 1907.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Revised version of translation by Lord Alfred Douglas first published, with Beardsley's illustrations: London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane ; Boston : Copeland and Day, 1894.
Includes, p. xiii-xviii, "A note on 'Salome'" by Robert Ross.
Includes a complete set of illustrations, some of which were suppressed or Bowdlerized in the 1894 ed.; also includes facsimiles of Beardsley's drawing for the cover design and programs for the English production of the play, May 10, 1905, and for Richard Strauss's opera, Dec. 9, 1905.
"Wm. Clowes & Sons, Ltd., printers, London."--Colophon.
Publisher's advertisements for books by Beardsley or with his illustrations: p. [67]-[68]
Includes, p. xiii-xviii, "A note on 'Salome'" by Robert Ross.
Includes a complete set of illustrations, some of which were suppressed or Bowdlerized in the 1894 ed.; also includes facsimiles of Beardsley's drawing for the cover design and programs for the English production of the play, May 10, 1905, and for Richard Strauss's opera, Dec. 9, 1905.
"Wm. Clowes & Sons, Ltd., printers, London."--Colophon.
Publisher's advertisements for books by Beardsley or with his illustrations: p. [67]-[68]
Description
[8], xiii-xviii, [2], 65, [3] p., [17] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., facsims. ; 22 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's green cloth blocked in gold with a peacock feather design by Beardsley.
Classification
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