Lot 240

WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899.

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WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899.

Small 4o. Original rose cloth, covers with gilt ornaments after Charles Shannon, gilt-lettered on spine, uncut (spine and sides slightly sunned at edges, cloth slightly bubbled, rear cover lightly bumped at foot).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 1,000 copies, this copy out-of-series. Mason 381.