WILDE, Oscar.

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After Berneval. Being a Book of Letters written at Naples and Paris from Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross. First edition, extra limited issue, number 15 of 75 copies printed on Japanese vellum; the colophon states that these copies signed by the publisher, C. W. Beaumont, and the artist, Randolph Schwabe, but this is unsigned. The binding is ambitiously and unusually designed, its many individual uses of the gouge tool executed by an amateur hand.This is the second volume of Wilde's letters to Ross, following After Reading (1921). Cyril William Beaumont (1891-1976) established his private press in 1917, which continued into the late 1920s. A further 400 copies were issued on handmade paper.

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