[WILDE, OSCAR]. The Works. London: Methuen & Co., 1909-1910.
Mixed editions - complete in 13 volumes, leather-bound, hardcovers, octavos (17.5cm x 11cm). English text printed on thick wove paper. Handsomely and uniformly bound by Riviere in half morocco gilt, five raised bands, cloth sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, half-titles present. The works include:- An Ideal Husband (4th ed.) pp. [12], 246; Essays and Lectures (2nd ed.) pp. xii, 244; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (4th ed.) pp. [6],196; De Profundis (14th ed.) pp. xv, [1], 156; The Duchess of Padua (3rd ed.) pp. vi, [6], 183, [1]; A House of Pomegranates (3rd ed.) pp. [8],179,[1]; The Importance of Being Earnest (4th ed.) pp. x, [6], 181, [1]; The Picture of Dorian Gray (First Charles Carrington Edition (3rd overall ed.)) pp. xi, [1], 352; Lady Windermere's Fan (4th ed.) pp. [16], 157, [1]; Intentions (4th ed.) pp. [8], 263, [1]; A Woman of No Importance (4th ed.) pp. [8], 182, [2]; Poems (9th ed.) pp. viii, 320; Salomé - La Sainte Courtisane - A Florentine Tragedy (New Edition) pp. xix, [1], 180. Condition: VERY GOOD. Contents complete. Bindings tight and secure with all joints and hinges intact. Trivial rubbing to some extremities. Some light foxing mostly confined to endpapers. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.
Notes: Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Here The Picture of Dorian Gray bears the imprint of Charles Carrington of Paris, while the rest bear Methuen and Co. A beautiful set of early editions finely bound by Riviere bearing their ink stamp on the lower front endpaper.
