WILDE, Oscar.

£19,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Signed limited edition, number 74 of 99 copies signed by the author. Wilde styled this the "author's edition", and in a letter to his publisher of 28 February 1898, he insisted on the purple binding with a new gilt remarque by Ricketts. Produced at Wilde's request, it was the third edition overall, appearing two months after the first.

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