Sales catalogue 34: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/17
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 34: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    312 313 314 15 316 84, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON, W.C.z2. 3i WILDE (Oscar) WORKS, Lrsrary EDITION, BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED ON HANDMADE PAPER, 15 vols, 8vo., half blue levant morocco gilt, wacut, t.e.g., 1908-22 %25/-/- This is the only library edition of Wilde’s works. Limited to 1000 sets. Importance—Lady Windermere’s Fan—Salome ; A Florentine Tragedy ; Vera—De Pro- fundis—House of Pomegranates ; The Happy Prince, &c.—Picture of Dorian Gray— Miscellanies—The Importance of Being Earnest—Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, &&.—The Duchess of Padua—Reviews—For Love of the King. — A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES, First EDITION, wth zllus- trations and decorations by C. Ricketts and C. H. SHANNON, sg. 8vo., polished buff calf extra, uncut, t.e.¢., with the original end-papers and decorative cloth covers mounted and preserved, 1891 £5/15/- EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. WORDSWORTH (William) MEMOIRS, by CuristopHER Worps- ‘WORTH, First EDITION, wt 80 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATIONS znserted (14 coloured), 2 vols, 8vo., red grained calf extra, t.e.g., 1851 £9/9/- WRIGHT (Thomas) CARICATURE HISTORY OF THE GEORGES: or Annals of the House of Hanover, compiled from the Squibs, Broadsides, Window Pictures, Lampoons, and Pictorial Cari- catures of the Times, coloured frontisptece and nearly 400 tllustrations on steel and wood, post 8vo., half morocco gilt, t.e.g. [1867 | 1/5/- “YELLOW BOOK” (The): an Illustrated Quarterly, complete in 13 vols, sq. 8vo., half buff calf gilt, t.e.g., 1894-97 £9/9/. ‘The Yellow Book,” most famous of all the books of the Nineties, contains the early work of Max Beerbohm, John Davidson, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, &c., and is illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, Will. Rothenstein, Max Beerbohm, Walter Sickert, Wm. Strang, Muirbead Bone, E. J. Sullivan, E. H. New, D. Y. Cameron, &c. ING, illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, MSS., Prints and Draw- ings, wth upwards of 260 full-page plates, many reproduced tn colour and tllumznated, 3 vols, 4to., original half green morocco, uncut, t.e.g., Privately printed for the Author, 1928 £45/-/- 350 copies only of this book have been printed and all plates have been destroyed. The most magnificent and only work of its kind ever issued, no pains or expense have been spared in the reproduction of the beautiful coloured plates. To BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY. about 53 Plates in Colour and 54 in Monochrome, and Complete Indices of all Four Volumes, rendering the Work still more Useful as a Book of Reference, uniform with the other volumes £15/15/- net The edition will consist of 300 copies, and when these are printed all the blocks, &c,, will be destroyed. ORDERS ARE NOW BEING BOOKED.
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