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Lot 354
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
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Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play about a Good Woman. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893.
8vo. 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (A few with slight browning from old bookmark.) Original brown buckram gilt, uncut (some darkening, minor losses to spine ends, slight wear to corners); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Henry William Poor (1844-1915), American banker and author (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 50 LARGE-PAPER COPIES on hand-made paper. Wilde's four-act comedy was first performed at the St. James's Theater in London on 20 February 1892. Mason 358.
Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio