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WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Poems. London: by The Chiswick Press for Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1892. 8° (184 x 120mm). Half-title with woodcut ornament on the verso and woodcut title both after Ricketts. (Very occasional spotting, offsetting from free endpaper onto Q5v, lacking final blank Q7.) 20th-century purple crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, the original pictorial cloth covers and spine after Ricketts laid-down and bound-in, printed free endpapers after Ricketts bound-in (skilful repair to small tear in margin of one endpaper, cloth covers slightly marked and trimmed, cloth spine a little worn). Provenance: W.A. Foyle (Beeleigh Abbey bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY WILDE. THE FOYLE COPY. This edition of Wilde's Poems used the sheets of David Bogue's fifth edition of 1882 -- which incorporated several substantive additions and amendments. Bogue's sheets were issued with a new title and half-title designed by Ricketts, and in a binding also by Ricketts. The penultimate leaf Q6, which bore Bogue's advertisements, was excised. Number 109 of 220 copies only. Mason 309.
LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY WILDE. THE FOYLE COPY. This edition of Wilde's Poems used the sheets of David Bogue's fifth edition of 1882 -- which incorporated several substantive additions and amendments. Bogue's sheets were issued with a new title and half-title designed by Ricketts, and in a binding also by Ricketts. The penultimate leaf Q6, which bore Bogue's advertisements, was excised. Number 109 of 220 copies only. Mason 309.