Accession number
PML 145605
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Published
Paris : Imprimé pour les membres de Limited Editions Club, 1938.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Issued with companion volume containing the text of Salomé in English with the illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
"Fifteen hundred copies ... It is designed by René Ben Sussan and printed by Dehon et Cie ... the type being a new face designed by A.M. Cassandre called Peignot and set by hand ... The illustrations are gouache drawings on black paper ... reproduced through the pochoir process by Saudé of Paris ... Signed by the artist"--Colophon.
Library's copy has embossed stamp below limitation statement reading, "This is one of the presentation copies - out of series"; copy initialed "H.J." [i.e. Holbrook Jackson] rather than numbered directly after statement.
"Fifteen hundred copies ... It is designed by René Ben Sussan and printed by Dehon et Cie ... the type being a new face designed by A.M. Cassandre called Peignot and set by hand ... The illustrations are gouache drawings on black paper ... reproduced through the pochoir process by Saudé of Paris ... Signed by the artist"--Colophon.
Library's copy has embossed stamp below limitation statement reading, "This is one of the presentation copies - out of series"; copy initialed "H.J." [i.e. Holbrook Jackson] rather than numbered directly after statement.
Description
71 p., [10] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Holbrook Jackson; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's wrappers covered with printed black paper; housed in burgundy slipcase with companion volume, as issued.
Classification
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