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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.

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Leslie, Marjorie former owner.

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Wilde, Oscar, 1854 - 1900 correspondent.

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Brentano's bookseller.

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United States Maine Portland.

Identifier

B28541
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