Hardcover
1921 · Westminster
by Wilde, Oscar
Westminster: Beaumont Press, 1921. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Ethelbert White. Thin 8vo. (60)pp. Cloth spine, gilt. Patterned paper over boards. Finely printed letterpress on handmade paper. Woodcut cover and decorations by Ethelbert White. One of 400 numbered copies from a totla edition of 475, this is number 455. A near fine copy.
"The letters included in this volume were written by Oscar Wilde to his friend Robert Ross during the summer of 1897. Wilde was released on Wednesday, May 19th, after completing his sentence of two years imprisonment, and on that day he crossed with a friend to Dieppe where he was met by Robert Ross to whom he at once handed the manuscript of his prison letter no known as 'De Profundis'.
. (Inventory #: 23766)
"The letters included in this volume were written by Oscar Wilde to his friend Robert Ross during the summer of 1897. Wilde was released on Wednesday, May 19th, after completing his sentence of two years imprisonment, and on that day he crossed with a friend to Dieppe where he was met by Robert Ross to whom he at once handed the manuscript of his prison letter no known as 'De Profundis'.
. (Inventory #: 23766)
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