WILDE, Oscar; ALASTAIR (illus.)

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The Sphinx. First Alastair edition, one of 1,000 copies elaborately illustrated by Baron Hans-Henning von Voight (1887-1969), who published under the pseudonym Alastair. His illustrations draw inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse, sinister, and satanic" (Peppin, p. 311).

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