WILDE, Oscar. Poems, signed by the author, No. 176 of 220 co...

WILDE, Oscar. Poems, signed by the author, No. 176 of 220 copies, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1892, half-title, limitation page, woodcut title-page and endpapers designed by Charles Ricketts (endpapers chipped and backed), orig. Art Nouveau iris cloth, gilt with 'The Seven Trees' design by Ricketts, re-backed retaining parts of orig. backstrip, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, 8vo; in a gilt-titled blue cloth chemise and slipcase. [Mason 309] [The only edition of Wilde's Poems issued signed. Produced from the remaining sheets of David Bogue's 1882 fifth edition, acquired by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, with a bifolium of new preliminaries designed by Charles Ricketts.]

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