Book ID: 11769

Salome. A Tragedy in One Act Translated from The French of Oscar Wilde with Sixteen Drawings By Aubrey Beardsley.

Wilde, Oscar; Beardsley, Aubrey

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head, 1912. Cloth.

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xxv + 82 pp. + (6) p. catalogue. 16 plates by Aubrey Beardsley, including frontispiece and title-page vignette. Green gilt-ruled linen with gilt cover vignette designed for original 1894 edition by Beardsley; top edge gilt; ragged edges. With a “Note on Salome” by Robert Ross. Small ink name label and small ink inscription on front free endpaper; spine gilt slightly faded, and extremities slightly rubbed. A bright little jewel of a book, printed on laid paper with plates on Japanese vellum. Mason #356.

Book ID 11769
Publisher John Lane/The Bodley Head
Publisher Place London
Publisher Year 1912
Size Sm 8vo
Language English