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WILDE, OSCAR.
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
8vo, original parchment-
backed grey-paper bevelled boards, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt to a design by
Charles Ricketts, spine tanned and lightly worn at the tips, corners rubbed with mild
exposure; contents clean with binding tight; custom cloth drop-back case.
London:Ward, Lock, and Co., [1891]
[5,000/7,500]
FIRST TRADE EDITION
(there was also a limited edition of 250 copies); this is the first issue (mis-
print to p. 208, eight lines from the bottom, lacking the “a” and reading “nd”). Partly unopened copy;
lacking the ads at end. Mason 328.