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Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son,, 1878. Attractively bound copy of Wilde's first independent publication First edition of Wilde's first independent publication, an attractively bound copy preserving the original wrappers, and with the bookplate to the front pastedown of the eccentric sportsman and artist William Eden (1849-1915), father of future Prime Minister Anthony Eden, and who, like Wilde, had a dispute with the artist James McNeill Whistler. The inspiration for Wilde's prize-winning poem came on a "vacation ramble" to Italy in 1877 with the precentor and junior dean of Trinity College, Dublin, William Mahaffy. According to the review published the next day in The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal Wilde's recitation of it at Oxford was "listened to with rapt attention and frequently applauded" (Ellman, p. 94). Eden excelled at a range of sports from boxing and horse riding to shooting, "the epitome of the sporting squire" (ODNB), a member of several clubs and well known in London…
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Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna.: Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878.
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Ravenna. Newdigate Prize Poem. Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878
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Oxford: Thomas Shrimpton and Son, 1878. First Edition. First edition. (Oxford crest present on front wrap and title page; a later pirate edition lacked these. Mason 301). 16 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-green printed wrappers. An unsophisticated copy, Very Good with toning and and few small edge chips to fragile wrappers. Contents bright and in great shape. The author's first book.
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