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WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trival Comedy for Serious People. By the author of Lady Windermere's Fan . London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. 4° (206 x 150mm). (Endpapers browned, some spotting). Publisher's pink cloth, gilt leaf devices on upper and lower cover (spine faded, wear and damp-staining at peripheries). FIRST EDITION, an unnumbered copy from an edition of 1,000 copies. Provenance : Cloé Russell (ink inscription dated '1902' on half title). Mason 381.
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trival Comedy for Serious People. By the author of Lady Windermere's Fan . London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. 4° (206 x 150mm). (Endpapers browned, some spotting). Publisher's pink cloth, gilt leaf devices on upper and lower cover (spine faded, wear and damp-staining at peripheries). FIRST EDITION, an unnumbered copy from an edition of 1,000 copies. Provenance : Cloé Russell (ink inscription dated '1902' on half title). Mason 381. Wilde, Oscar. A House of Pomegranates . London: James R. Osgood & McIlvaine, 1891. 4° (207 x 170mm). Decorative endpapers, decorative title, four full-page plates and several vignettes and text illustrations by C[harles] Ricketts and C[harles] H[aslewood] Shannon (plates faded as usual, some spotting, endpapers chipped and separated at gutters). Publisher's brown cloth, backed with green cloth, and with a pictorial design in gilt and orange by Ricketts and Shannon (discoloured, peripheral wear). FIRST EDITION. Mason 347. With one other book by Wilde. (3)