Skip to content

The Rise of Historical Criticism by Oscar Wilde - 1905

by Oscar Wilde

Similar copies are shown below.
Similar copies are shown to the right.
No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Oscar Wilde

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Hartford, Conn: Privately Printed / Sherwood Press, 1905. Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards. Very Good. Two Hundred and twenty-five copies of this book have been printed. This is number 70." Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 45 pages, green quarter-cloth, marbled paper boards, paper spine label, deckled fore-edges. A very good, clean, neat hardcover first edition with moderate shelf wear to the bottom edges with the cover paper worn to board at fore-tips, hinges and binding solid, paper clean and cream white.
  • Bookseller Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Privately Printed / Sherwood Press
  • Place of Publication Hartford, Conn
  • Date Published 1905
  • Keywords Oscar Wilde; Essays; Limited Edition; History; Historical Criticism

We have 14 copies available starting at $12.99.

No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Oscar Wilde

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781427056993
ISBN 10
1427056994
Quantity Available
1
Seller
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$12.99

Show Details

Description:
ReadHowYouWant, 2008-08-15. Paperback. Good.
Item Price
$12.99
No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Oscar Wilde

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781427056986
ISBN 10
1427056986
Quantity Available
1
Seller
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$12.99

Show Details

Description:
ReadHowYouWant, 2008-08-15. Paperback. Good.
Item Price
$12.99
No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Oscar Wilde

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781427057006
ISBN 10
1427057001
Quantity Available
1
Seller
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$14.29

Show Details

Description:
ReadHowYouWant, 2008-08-15. Paperback. Good.
Item Price
$14.29
No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Oscar Wilde

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781427057013
ISBN 10
142705701X
Quantity Available
1
Seller
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$15.59

Show Details

Description:
ReadHowYouWant, 2008-08-15. Paperback. Good.
Item Price
$15.59
No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Oscar Wilde

  • Used
  • Paperback
Condition
Used:Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781427056986
ISBN 10
1427056986
Quantity Available
1
Seller
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$21.23

Show Details

Description:
ReadHowYouWant, 2008-08-15. Paperback. Used:Good.
Item Price
$21.23
No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Oscar Wilde

  • Used
  • Paperback
Condition
Used:Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781427057013
ISBN 10
142705701X
Quantity Available
1
Seller
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$24.74

Show Details

Description:
ReadHowYouWant, 2008-08-15. Paperback. Used:Good.
Item Price
$24.74
No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Wilde, Oscar

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
Limited.
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$68.00

Show Details

Description:
CT: Privately Published, 1905. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited.. Book has green cloth spine which is somewhat soiled, paper label fully intact, marbilized boards has minor wear at corners. # 50 of 225..
Item Price
$68.00
No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Wilde, Oscar

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - g+ to vg+
Edition
First edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Santa Monica, California, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$150.00

Show Details

Description:
Hartford, Conn: Privately Printed (at the Sherwood Press), 1905. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg+. 1/225 This copy out of series. Octavo. 45 (3)pp. Green cloth-backed marbled boards with printed label on spine. The essay was written for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize at Oxford in 1879. The original manuscript was considered lost, possibly sold at the sale of Wilde's effects on April 24, 1895 and in 1905 offered for sale in the catalogue of S. B. Luyster, jun.. The essay as published by the Sherwood Press was included in the Methuen edition of Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, vol. vii. Some time after the publication Robert Ross found the remainder of the essay in two quarto exercise books uniform with the volume described in Luyster's catalogue. The rest of the essay was included in the last volume of Methuen's collected works in 1908. See Mason # 434. Spine slightly rubbed and sunned. Foredge and bottom uncut. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good+ condition.
Item Price
$150.00
No image available

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Wilde, Oscar

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition.
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Bath, Maine, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 1 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$245.00$183.75
Save $61.25!

Show Details

Description:
Hartford Ct: Hartford Ct: Privately Printed By Sherwood Press, 1905, 1905 Cloth/ Marble. Very Good. First Edition. Essay. Green cloth, marbled boards, slight edge rubbed, tan paper title plate spine. Limited edition # 930 ? in ink top inside rear board. 45 pgs. last page has tape repair- perhaps by binder as the page was cut short? Scarce Wilde work.. First Edition.. Cloth/ Marble. Very Good.
Item Price
$245.00$183.75
Save $61.25 !
The Rise of Historical Criticism
More Photos

The Rise of Historical Criticism

by Wilde, Oscar

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good (Plus)
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
Limited
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Chico, California, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 2 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$225.00

Show Details

Description:
[Hartford, Conn]: Privately Printed, 1905. Written in 1879 and submitted by Wilde to the Chancellor's English Essay Prize contest at Oxford. An interesting Wilde item - the manuscript in its entirenty was presumed to be lost. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition Thus, which was LIMITED to 225 copies (precedes the First Trade Edition). Marbled paper-covered boards with a green cloth spine; paper label titling on the spine. Clean text; 45 pages, deckle, with a Limitation Page at the end. Privately printed (by the Sherwood Press). Charming contemporary bookplate on the front paste-down that features an angel, cliffs, and ships at sea. Light rub to the margins. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Item Price
$225.00