The rise of historical criticism

by Oscar Wilde

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First edition

Hartford: privately printed at the Sherwood Press , 1905. First edition limited to 225 numbered copies, 8vo, pp. 45, 3 ; original green cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on spine; very slightly rubbed, else a fine copy. A scarce Wilde title, written for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize while at Oxford in 1879. See Mason 434 for a convoluted account of the manuscript, part of which was separately sold in America and then later restored.

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