WILDE | A House of Pomegranates, 1891, one of 1000 copies

From the Collection of Steven Berkoff

WILDE, OSCAR

A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES. LONDON: JAMES R. OSGOOD, 1891

4to, FIRST EDITION, pictorial title-page and other illustrations in the text by Charles Ricketts, 4 full-page illustrations by Charles Shannon printed in brown, original pictorial cloth gilt and pictorial endpapers designed by Charles Ricketts, ownership signature to title-page, slightly skewed, binding slightly worn and soiled, upper hinge restored

Mason notes that 1000 copies of this edition were printed and records that 'A House of Pomegranates was not a success on its first publication. About 1903 or 1904 the stock was sold off...'

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