Accession number
PML 195356
Published
Verona : Privately printed for Lucia Moreira Salles, 2008.
Credit line
Gift of the Estate of Lucia Moreira Salles, 2009.
Notes
"This limited edition, signed and numbered from 1 to 525, has been produced in Verona by Stamperia Valdonega, in collaboration with Marcus Ratliff. The text has been set in Caslon VAL [Valdonega Aesthetic Line] version and printed on Fedrigoni Tintoretto paper. The facsimiles have been reproduced on various papers to match the original documents. The binding has been executed by Legatoria Rigoldi in Milan. September 2008."--Colophon.
Includes mounted illustrations.
Library has copy no. 177.
Includes mounted illustrations.
Library has copy no. 177.
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims., ports. ; 39 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Colophon signed by Lucia Moreira Salles and Merlin Holland as issued.
Summary
Facsimile ed. of a bound volume including autograph manuscripts of the poems "Roses and Rue," "Under the Balcony," "La Dame Jaune," and five of the Poems in Prose ("The Artist," "The Doer of Good," "The Disciple," "The Master," and "The House of Judgment"); manuscript of the story "The Selfish Giant" in the hand of Constance Wilde; autograph letter signed to Lord Alfred Douglas, c. 1892; autograph letter signed to Bernulf Clegg, and a letter from Clegg to Wilde, 1891; autograph letter signed to George Kersley, 1888; autograph letter signed to John Lane, 1894. The originals are preserved at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, under the shelfmarks MA 7258.1-14.
Binding
Publisher's mauve polyester cloth with title stamped on upper cover and spine in anodized aluminum, facsim. of Wilde's signature likewise on lower cover; laid into publisher's mauve polyester clamshell box with title stamped on spine in anodized aluminum, by Legatoria Rigoldi.
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