4to. Two piece binding with cloth spine and paper covered boards. Paper cover label. Limited edition of 450 numbered copies. Housed in custom clamshell box of blue cloth with leather spine with gilt lettering. Illustrated with woodcuts by Frans Masereel. Red leather Beach bookplate attached to front paste-down. Errata slip laid in. Some normal foxing, else in very good condition in similar dust jacket.

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Bookseller: Maxwell's Bookmark (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 986
Title: THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL.
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Book Condition: Used
Edition: Limited edition of 450 numbered copies. Housed in custom clamsh
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Methuen & Co. 1924.

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Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Clamshell Box: A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Errata: Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...