Shelfmark
Icc5.4.32
Author
Collective uniform title
Poems. 1908
Title
The poetical works of Oscar Wilde, including poems in prose : with notes, bibliographical introduction, index and facsimiles of title-pages.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Portland, Maine : Thomas B. Mosher, MDCCCCVIII [1908]
Physical description
xxiv, 394, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., facsims., port. ; 19 cm.
Note
"Seven hundred and fifty copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed in the month of September MDCCCCVIII." - colophon.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Includes indices.
Provenance
Bookplate of Shane Leslie with ms. inscription in Shane Leslie's hand: "Shane Leslie - a wedding present 1912".
Provenance
Bookplate of Vyvyan Holland.
Provenance
Bookseller's stamp (Brentano's, Washington D.C.).
Binding
Early 20th century green morocco with gilt decoration on boards and gilt lettering and decoration on spine, gilt on turn-ins, and marbled endpapers ; bound by J. W. Meyer & Co., New York (binder's stamp).
Copy-specific note
Three ms. letters (dated 1926, 1927, and 1945) to Shane and Marjorie Leslie from Vyvyan Holland pasted onto front endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Fragment of a ms. letter in Oscar Wilde's hand and signed by him and Constance Wilde pasted onto back endpaper, with loose fragment of Oscar Wilde's envelope.
Copy-specific note
Ms. letter (dated 1895) to Mrs. Robinson signed from Constance Wilde pasted onto back endpaper.
Copy-specific note
Envelope pasted on front endpaper with ms. caricatures of Oscar Wilde in an unknown hand.
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotations throughout text in Shane Leslie's hand.
Copy-specific note
Periodical clipping and other ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde pasted onto back endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Ms. note on front endpaper in Iris Leslie's hand.
Genre/Form
Poems.
Added entry--name
Leslie, Iris Carola, ? - d. 1993 former owner.
Added entry--name
Leslie, Shane, 1885 - 1971 former owner.
Added entry--name
Leslie, Marjorie former owner.
Added entry--name
Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886 - 1967 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Wilde, Oscar, 1854 - 1900 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Wilde, Constance, 1858 - 1898 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Thomas B. Mosher (Firm) publisher.
Added entry--name
Brentano's bookseller.
Added entry--name
J. W. Meyer & Co. binder.
Added entry--place
United States Maine Portland.
Identifier
B28541