with sixteen drawings by Aubrey Beardsley (First John Lane Edition, Mason 527): xxiii,82,pp. Picture of Dorian Gray (First Carrington Edition, Mason 525): xi,352,pp. Salomé, La Sainte Courtisane, A Florentine Tragedy (New Edition, Mason 522): xix,180pp. Essays and Lectures (2nd edn., Mason 519): xii,244pp. House of Pomegranates (3rd edn., Mason 510): ,179,pp. Importance of Being Earnest (Alexander Souvenir Edition, Mason 506): x,181,pp. Ideal Husband (5th edn., Mason 503): ,246pp. Woman of No Importance (3rd edn., Mason 497): ,182,pp.
Lady Windermere's Fan (3rd edn., Mason 494): ,157,pp. Duchess of Padua (2nd edn., Mason 485): vi,183,pp. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (3rd edn., Mason 481`): ,196pp. Escott of Magdalen College, Oxford, to some volumes. Publisher's bright green cloth, spines titled in gilt, upper covers with gilt lettering and Charles Rickett's star above the "Great Waters" vignette, top edges gilt, sides uncut, printed on thick wove paper. A superb set of the First Foolscap Octavo Edition (Second Collected Edition) of Wilde's works, in 14 matching publisher's bindings, issued as separate volumes beginning in 1909 (twelve by Methuen, one by Charles Carrington of Paris, and one by John Lane).
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