Signed book: Poems by Oscar Wilde. Limited edition, numbered 105/220. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1892. Hardcover bound in the original gilt-blocked cloth, top edge gilt, 5.25 x 7.5, 234 pages. Neatly signed on the colophon in ink, "Oscar Wilde." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/None, with chipping to edges of endpapers, minor wear to the bottom of the spine, and a bookplate ("F. Wyndham Goldie") affixed inside the front cover. Accompanied by a custom-made clamshell presentation case.
This edition of Wilde's Poems used the sheets of David Bogue's fifth edition of 1882—which incorporated several substantive additions and amendments (cf. Mason 308)—with a cancellans bifolium designed by Ricketts and bearing the half-title, limitation statement, and title. The penultimate leaf Q6, which bore Bogue's advertisements, was excised. A binding design ('The Seven Trees,' in gold on Iris cloth, Mason 309) was also commissioned from Ricketts, and the book was published on May 26, 1892, at 15 shillings.
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