Oscar Wilde. Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond and Charles Ricketts.

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A biographical essay by Charles Ricketts, writing under the pseudonym of Jean Paul Raymond, published posthumously and with a design intended to pay homage to the books of the Vale Press. Ricketts had been a friend of Oscar Wilde and designed and edited his collection of poems The Sphinx; in Dreyfus’ words ‘this was the only Nonesuch book linked in a personal way with the private press movement of those years.’ Dreyfus 81.

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