The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci.

  • Seymour de Ricci
Date:
1921
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Credit: The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WILDE (Oscar). 1856-1900 See Stuart Mason, A bibliography of the poems of Oscar Wilde. (Lon¬ don, Grant Richards, and New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1908. 8°) xii- 148 pp.; Stuart Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (London T. Wer¬ ner Laurie, 1914. 8°) xxxix-605 pp. The finest Wilde collection recently dispersed was that of John B. Stetson, Jr., of Philadelphia (sale at Anderson’s, 23 April 1920, with an excellent catalogue). Ravenna, Newdigate Prize Poem. Oxford, Chas. Shrimp- ton and son, 1878. 8°. 16 pp. In orig. grey printed wrapper $6-8. — £5 Hodgson’s, 26 Apr. 1911, n. 454, presentation copy; £ 16.10.0 Browning (May 1913, n. 1210) pre¬ sentation copy to Browning; $65 Walpole Galleries, 16 Febr 1917 n 285, presentation copy; $125 Stetson (Apr. 1920, n. 1) presentation copy. A pirated reprint, issued in 1904, has no arms on the title. Vera or the Nihilists, a Drama in four Acts. London, Ran¬ kest and Co., 1880. 8°. Grey printed wrapper. A very scarce privately printed edition. Only two copies are known, one in the Bruce Ingram coll., the other sold m 1912 by Quaritch and resold $570 Stetson (Apr. 1920 n 3) The manuscript $925 Stetson (Apr. 1920, n 6) Vera or the Nihilists, a Drama in a Prologue and four Acts. [New York], 1882. 8°. Interleaved. Grey printed wrapper. This edition is also very scarce. £26. Sotheby’s 19 July 1907, n. 284, the author’s copy with autograph alterations, resold $240 Stetson (Apr. 1920, n. 4); £15 Sotheby’s, 27 July 1911, n. 214; £ 10.15.0 Sotheby’s, 30 March 1914, n. 575; $220 Rob¬ inson (Apr. 1917, n. 673) wrapper. Poems. London, David Bogue, 1881. 8°. In orig. white vellum $30-40. — £76 Browning (May 1913 11. 1211) presentation copy to Browning; £ 10 Humphries (May 1913 n. 1711 • 850 Ives (Apr. 1915, n. 1089) veil.; $66 Clawson (Jan. 1917, n.’529) veil. Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf by Rennell Rodd, with an Intro¬ duction by Oscar Wilde. Philadelphia, J. M. Stoddart and Co 1882. 8°. . I.n on£- F,een c,Dth $6“8> but much more for the edition de luxe printed ’Jotnw ink °? ‘A tr“rent paper- interleaved with screen paper. i9.5.0 Hodgson s, 7 Jan. 1908, n. 562; $185 Stetson (Apr. 1920, n 169) the author s copy. The manuscript $1075 same sale, n. 173.