Oscar WILDE.

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Oscar WILDE.
Poems. London, [Chiswick Press] David Bogue, 1881. In-12: red morocco, spine ribbed and richly decorated with gilt fleurons with dotted background, gilt fillet framing the boards with gilt fleurons with dotted background in the corners and small patches of mosaic green morocco, gilt fillets on the edges and inside border, untrimmed, parchment cover and spine decorated with gilt, preserved (Zaehnsdorf, 1909). Original edition of 750 copies on Van Gelder laid paper: one of 250 first-issue copies, with no edition markings on the title. A perfect copy, bound some thirty years later by Zaehnsdorf. The publisher's parchment cover with gilt decoration by Matthew Bell has been retained and bound in at the end. (Stuart, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, no. 304.)
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