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Salome. A Tragedy in one Act, translated from the French. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley.
by WILDE, Oscar & BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illustrator)
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About This Item
London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland & Day, 1894.. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. LIMITED EDITION (500 [750]). Small 4to. (21.5 x 15.5 cm). pp.[xii]+67+[1]+14, ads.+[2]. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red crushed morocco, covers with original gilt designs replicated front and back, spine gilt lettered between two raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorated title and contents leaf, 10 full page illustrations and one final vignette. Generally an excellent copy. Salom� was originally published in French in the preceding year and was translated into English by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas. This edition was the first to feature Beardsley's striking illustrations, however, some of his designs were withheld from publication and not issued until 1907. "If Le Morte Darthur 1893 made Beardsley known, his designs for the first edition in English of Wilde's Salom� made him notorious, and it remains the book of which most people think when his name is mentioned" (Ray) Although the limitation is given as 500 on the verso of the half-title there were in fact 750 of the ordinary edition out of a total 875.
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- Bookseller
- Robert Frew Ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58688
- Title
- Salome. A Tragedy in one Act, translated from the French. Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley.
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar & BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illustrator)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland & Day, 1894.
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About Robert Frew Ltd
Robert Frew has been trading in antiquarian books since 1975, starting out from an open market in Camden Lock, followed by shops in Primrose Hill, in Great Russell Street by the British Museum, Maddox Street Mayfair and now on the borders of South Kensington and Knightsbridge. Not to mention stints in Portobello Road and Safe Store Battersea.We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, of which Robert Frew is a past president.We Exhibit at most of the major international ILAB fairs in America, often in Europe and sometimes in the Middle and Far East. We are also members of the PBFA, exhibiting in London and occasionally in the provinces.
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- Morocco
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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