Salome - A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde.
by WILDE, Oscar. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illustrates)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Elkin Mathews & John Lane, London., 1894. First edition in English and with the Beardsley illustrations; 500 copies printed. Octavo. pp [xiv], 67. 16-page publishers' catalogue, dated January 1894, at rear. Frontispiece, pictorial title-page and list of illustrations, 9 illustrations, tailpiece and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. The list of illustrations is a cancel as three of the plates were considered too risqué for publication, one them being replaced entirely and the two others receiving alterations. Loose-weave blue cloth with gilt devices on front and rear cover.Some damage to inner margin of cancelled list of illustrations page. Spine faded and rubbed so that the titles are illegible. Some rubbing to edges of covers. Good, internally near fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WILDEOSC010531
- Title
- Salome - A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde.
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illustrates)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Elkin Mathews & John Lane, London.
- Date Published
- 1894
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Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
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