INTENTIONS BY OSCAR WILDE 1891 FIRST EDITION

INTENTIONS BY OSCAR WILDE 1891 FIRST EDITION

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[WILDE, OSCAR]. Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil, and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., MDCCCXCI. [1891].

First edition. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (210 x 140 x 30 mm). Pp. 258. English text. Bound in publisher's original olive-green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Page edges uneven. Printer's device to title-page. Printed footnotes. Printed by Gilbert and Rivington Limited. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. The edges sharp. Slight soiling to covers. Interior fresh and clean. Without previous ownership markings. An excellent copy. Scarce.

Notes: First edition of Wilde's collected essays on aesthetics. The essays were originally published in journals from 1885 to 1890, and here revised by Wilde. Of this edition 1,500 copies were printed, of which 600 were issued in America.

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