The Works (Sunflower Edition)
Lamb, 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #1507209
8vo, 20.2cm, a handsome quarter-leather set of 14 books, number 338 of 1000 numbered sets, with the sunflower motif in gilt on the spine of each volume. various paginations c.[4800]pp., with 62 plates including 14 photogravure frontis plates with captioned tissue guards. A brilliant set of Oscar Wilde's Collected Works. It including: Salome; The Duchess of Padua; VeraLady Windermere's Fan; The Importance of Being Earnest; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Intentions;A House of Pomegranates; The Happy Prince; De Profundus; Dorian Gray; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; Poems in Prose; Poems; Epigrams; Essays & Stories by Lady Wilde (Speranza); Essays, Criticisms and Reviews. Also included is "His Life with a Critical Estimate of HisWriting". Not included is What Never Dies. The illustrations in "Salome" are by Aubrey Beardsley.
Price: $2,000.00