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Salome by Wilde, Oscar
Limited/Numbered
London: Melmoth & Co., 1904 Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and beveled boards. Spine is sunned as are edges of boards, spine ends worn with some loss of material, joints are split but well repaired. Corners are bumped and have loss of cloth. No 12 of 50 copies on Japanese vellum. Translated from the French 1894 edition ostensibly by Lord Alfred Douglas. Date at foot of spine 1905. 16 pictures by Beardsley including cover design and title page. Plates are not in the order listed; in this copy pencil annotations in margin of printed list of plates give the correct order. Book dealer ticket on front pastedown. Owner bookplate on ffep with signature. Taped to ffep is caricature of Wilde and clipped Fr. catalogue listing for this title.. Limited/Numbered. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Aubrey Beardsley. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade.
- Bookseller: The Title Page
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #: WN46173
- Format/binding: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fair
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley
- Edition: Limited/Numbered
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Melmoth & Co.
- Place: London
- Date published: 1904
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