Salome: A Tragedy in One Act, Translated from the French

by Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Illustrations

$6,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. First edition in English of Wilde's seminal one-act tragedy and the first to feature Aubrey Beardsley's lavishly unrestrained illustrations. One of 500 copies. xii , 67, 1 , 16 ads, illustrated with frontispiece, 9 full page plates, and singular tailpiece. Bound in publisher's blue canvas cloth decoratively stamped in gilt after design by Beardsley. Near Fine with light sunning

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